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Politics : WHO IS RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT IN 2004 -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Raymond Duray who wrote (7464)	12/12/2003 2:17:39 PM
From: Glenn Petersen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10965

"How did Dennis Kucinich and Al Sharpton and Carol Moseley Braun get into this thing?" Koppel was quoted in the Washington Post (12/10/03). "Nobody seems to know. Some candidates who are perceived as serious are gasping for air, and what little oxygen there is on the stage will be taken up by one-third of the people who do not have a snowball's chance in hell of winning the nomination." To be blunt, Koppel is an arrogant asshole. If we could read his mind, we would probably find out that he considers himself to be more qualified to be President than any of the other candidates. He was probably itching to go one-on-one with each of them. The Republican scrum of 1999 included a lot of candidates that had no realistic chance of being nominated, but these early debates, if structured properly, can be informative. It might make more sense to schedule more debates, but limit the number of participants for any one debate to three or four. The participants could be rotated. Having suffered through six years with Moseley-Braun as one of my Senators, I can happily and emphatically state that she is not qualified for high office. Sharpton has entertainment value, but he does a disservice to the African-American community to the extent that anyone views him as "the" representative of that community. I have grown somewhat fond of Dennis Kucinich on a personal (with a strong emphasis on the word personal) level. There is an appeal to a quixotic campaign that may be primarily about personal redemption. I don't mean to sound dismissive about him. Kucinich is certainly articulate and consistent about his beliefs, but as Koppel notes, he does not have a snowball's chance in hell. Ironically, ABC is pulling the plug after a period when Kucinich has gotten quite a bit of attention and has probably doubled his numbers.