{"id":995,"date":"2004-01-02T10:51:12","date_gmt":"2004-01-02T17:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/uncategorized\/a-little-about-kucinich\/"},"modified":"2004-01-02T10:51:12","modified_gmt":"2004-01-02T17:51:12","slug":"a-little-about-kucinich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/a-little-about-kucinich\/","title":{"rendered":"A Little About Kucinich"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The complete article is a good overview of Kucinich. mjh<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a title=\"Past Defeat and Personal Quest Shape Long-Shot Kucinich Bid\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/01\/02\/politics\/campaigns\/02KUCI.html?th=&amp;pagewanted=all&amp;position=\">Challenging Bush: Past Defeat and Personal Quest Shape Long-Shot Kucinich Bid<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dennis J. Kucinich was 33 when, having been drummed out of the Cleveland mayor&#8217;s office, he set out on what he calls his &#8221;quest for meaning.&#8221; His city was in financial default &#8212; the embarrassment of the nation. His political career was in tatters, his bank account dangerously low. Not even the radio talk shows would hire him.<\/p>\n<p>So he left the Rust Belt in the winter of 1979, headed west to California and, eventually, <i>New Mexico<\/i>, to write and think. There, in the austere beauty of the desert outside Santa Fe, he sought out a spiritual healer who, he says, led him on a path toward inner peace. <b>&#8220;That,&#8221; Mr. Kucinich said, &#8220;is where I discovered that war is not inevitable.&#8221;<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Now, after a stunning political comeback that culminated with his election to the House of Representatives in 1996, Mr. Kucinich &#8212; the boy mayor who was so bombastic he fired his police chief live on the 6 o&#8217;clock news &#8212; is seeking the White House, on a platform of &#8220;nonviolence as an organizing principle of society.&#8221; He wants to pull out of Iraq, sharply reduce the Pentagon budget and establish a cabinet-level Department of Peace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The complete article is a good overview of Kucinich. mjh Challenging Bush: Past Defeat and Personal Quest Shape Long-Shot Kucinich Bid Dennis J. Kucinich was 33 when, having been drummed out of the Cleveland mayor&#8217;s office, he set out on what he calls his &#8221;quest for meaning.&#8221; His city was in financial default &#8212; the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/a-little-about-kucinich\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Little About Kucinich<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dump-duhbya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}