Kucinich speech butchered by party big shots

Although the Democratic National Convention that's in progress now has been graced by great speeches by Ted Kennedy, John Kerry, and Joe Biden, we can all agree there hasn't been nearly enough raw roughage. Not even close to enough. Meaning zero.

The party has become so lightweight that it looks like that's how it's going to stay. Party apparatchiks even ruined a Dennis Kucinich speech in an effort to keep razor-sharp thoughts and words at bay.

Kucinich gave a speech at the convention on Tuesday. (I didn't know it though, because I don't know of any networks that showed the speech.) Kucinich had planned on saying that the Republicans "want 4 more years, when they ought to get 10 to 20 in prison."

But the party bosses who screen each speech axed that line. Too inflammatory, you see.

Now do you see why the Democrats don't have a lot of pull with me anymore? (They certainly have more than the Republicans, but not much.) Kucinich's line was perfectly valid. It's the type of thing that's sorely lacking at this convention. But the party's so-called leaders want to be "consensus-minded", you understand.

When a party doesn't even stand up and fight, why should we spend our energy doing what party leaders fail to do? With the party's current attitude, the Democrats shouldn't be surprised if they have to get used to being perennial also-rans again like they were in the early 2000s.

(Source: http://news.cincinnati.com/apps/pbcs.dll/section?Category=blog02&plckController=Blog&plckScript=blogScript&plckElementId=blogDest&plckBlogPage=BlogViewPost&plckPostId=Blog%3aec38bb2b-982e-46ba-819a-da01a547e8eaPost%3ab4a39235-6c9c-4a71-89b6-214f718dee3e&s)