Knock-off criteria: Why Kucinich is not electable Mr. Kucinich, you are a successful Congressman, and certainly you have the support of your staff. However, you are a ferocious micromanager. You say you want to be President, and I believe you mean what you say. Your strengths are obvious to me. You have a sacred awareness of the world commons and a vision of an America that lives by peace and diplomacy. You understand your constituency at the level of conversation - generating ideas, making promises, keeping promises, holding yourself to public accountability. You inspire listeners with passionate speech, peacefully organize from the floor of Congress, and fairly confront a President. But, absent the ability to assemble and sustain a core campaign staff, people who are comfortable telling you when your campaign plan is full of shit and with whom you are willingly uncomfortable while listening, illustrates you're not electable as President. The President's staff members are key participants who negotiate the daily complexities at the highest circles of governance, I need to see a leader who trusts his delegates. In this campaign for the Democratic nomination as President, you've demonstrated a profound inability to trust your key people. Therefore, in my opinion, you have disqualified yourself as a legitimate contender for the nomination.
I'll continue to support creating a Department of Peace and throttling the Patriot Act, as well as your leadership in those endeavors. But, you're off my short list for the Democratic nomination for President.
Resolute
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