Today the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition hosted eight of the nine Democratic Presidential candidates in a forum hosted on C-SPAN today. I loved Howard Dean’s straight-talk, Dennis Kucinich’s fiery speech (which will probably make him unelectable) giving me chills, and John Kerry’s record. My prediction is the primary will likely result in a Kerry-Dean outcome. Bob Graham was a no-show, and Dick Gephardt and Joe Lieberman put me to sleep. Al Sharpton was powerful and hilarious at times, in sharp contrast to the subdued Carol Moseley Braun. Some notable quotes:
“We have too many elephants running around in donkey jackets.”
Al Sharpton on the Democratic Party“Homelessness is a weapon of mass destruction. Joblessness is a weapon of mass destruction.”
Dennis Kucinich on the Bush administration
I covered Gephardt and other candidates for my high school newspaper in 1987.
Howard Dean (who announces his formal candidacy tomorrow at 10am) appeared on Meet the Press this morning, and endured an hour of tough questions posed by Tim Russert. He handled Tim rather well, and gave a decent, honest reply to his son’s recent trouble with the law involving the theft of alcohol from a country club, noting “he’s more than grounded — he has to face our government’s judicial system”.
Today while walking on Broadway, I saw the person referred to as “The Human Scab” in The Stranger. I came quite close to losing my lunch, and it’s going to take a while to remove that image from my mind. He needs serious medical attention.