UFOs are irrelevant

The headline in Dick Feagler’s column in The Cleveland Plain-Dealer says it all: “So Dennis Kucinich saw a UFO; what’s the big deal?”

As he says,

If true, this sounds no worse than the illusions that instructed the Bush administration.

They smelled something or felt something or heard something that sent us into Iraq. Are they cuckoo, too?

Well, yes, they are, but that’s another issue. Kucinich may be quirky, but on the issues that matter — getting out of Iraq, a national single-payer healthcare system — he is the sanest man in the race.

More from Feagler:

I don’t know what, if anything, Dennis said to Shirley MacLaine about a spaceship sighting. But I do know, thanks to the Internet, what a lot of people say about Dennis. Not here, maybe, but around the country. A lot of people like him because they think he’s talking straight. And that’s rare. And a lot of his straight talk is what a lot of people want to hear.

The last congressional election was supposed to be all about ending the war in Iraq. That was a year ago.

If you’ve watched these beauty contests, aka presidential debates, you might have been surprised to see that Iraq has become a second-tier issue.

But not for Dennis. He still wants out, ASAP.

If they’re still on speaking terms, Eleanor Roosevelt might have told Hillary to say she was sorry for voting to help plunge this nation into a bottomless war.

But being in love with yourself means you never have to say you’re sorry. If you’re up in the polls, that helps, too. Millions in your war chest helps more. But what helps most is a campaign consultant who urges you not to say what you really think.

So Hillary’s version of her war vote goes like this. (It’s familiar because she plagiarized it.) “I did not have sex with that war.”

Make fun of Dennis all you want. He can’t win. But he says what he means. That’s enough in this dismal political morass called a campaign, to bring me a slight whiff of roses.

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Author: hankkalet

Hank Kalet is a poet and freelance journalist. He is the economic needs reporter for NJ Spotlight, teaches journalism at Rutgers University and writing at Middlesex County College and Brookdale Community College. He writes a semi-monthly column for the Progressive Populist. He is a lifelong fan of the New York Mets and New York Knicks, drinks too much coffee and attends as many Bruce Springsteen concerts as his meager finances will allow. He lives in South Brunswick with his wife Annie.

One thought on “UFOs are irrelevant”

  1. Dennis Kucinich is great, I really like him and I like his wife even more. I was so proud of Dennis with his impeachment resolution, long overdue. If we lived in a saner world Kucinich would be president. Unfortunately, he doesn\’t stand a chance. There is a strong possibility that it will come to a Rudy vs. Hillary contest. In that case, Hillary gets my vote, no contest. She\’s a million times better than any of the vile GOP clowns.

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