Demand Impeachment Now!

The United States People have a chance to assist Dennis Kucinich with the impeachment of Bush. Head to Congressman Kucinich’s website to sign the petition.
http://www.kucinich.us/#

(Source + Video: http://www.kucinich.us/#)

Dennis Kucinich on the Alex Jones Show: Impeachment Time

Impeachment on Bush. Sure hope this goes forward. Dennis Kucinish with Alex Jones.

(Full Article: http://www.anomalytv.com)

Secret Meeting in the US – Dennis Kucinich opposes

Dennis Kucinich is objecting to the secret meeting, because he believes it is against the constitution. JFK was also against politics by stealth, and there is more and more of this happening both in the US and Canada. Harper closed an organisation called Co-ordinated Access to Information Requests System (CAIRS) not a long ago, which was making the government more transparent to the population. Are we seeing the signs now? With the Bill C51, we are going to have something similar to the patriot act on us too soon.

(Source: http://crossingpointoflight.blogspot.com/2008/06/fema-red-blue-list-marked-for.html)

Dennis Kucinich speaks about secret congress meeting

I really like this man. He speaks the truth, like no others. If I had my say for US election, I would pick Ron Paul and Dennis Kucinich to lead the US country together! What a team they would form.

Dennis Kucinich debate video

I wish this man would lead the U.S. next. I raise my hat to M. Kucinich.

Dennis Kucinich – End NAFTA – Rebuild America

Dennis spoke to the United Auto Workers in Detroit. He told them he wanted to stop, “…the grass growing in the parking lots of US factories”. He laid out plans for developing new jobs that will help us grow by using new forms of energy. Dennis told his audience that oil companies would not be running his White House.

Video by Robert Malin

What Kucinich Saw : Witnesses Describe His Close Encounter

Well, this is a first I think. The wallstreet Journal reporting on a UFO sighting. I was happily surprised to see that article. A positive experience too, as it should be when facing real ETs.

Candidate’s Pals Recall Three Throbbing UFOs; Outed by Shirley MacLaine

By MICHAEL M. PHILLIPS

The 2008 presidential race has raised many questions about the candidates’ personal histories. Will Barack Obama’s past drug use preclude a White House future? Will Christian conservatives forgive Rudy Giuliani his two divorces? Will voters forgive Hillary Clinton for forgiving Bill?

And what exactly did Democratic candidate Dennis Kucinich see hovering above actress Shirley MacLaine’s house 25 years ago?

This fall, Ms. MacLaine revealed in her new book that the Ohio congressman had seen a UFO and felt “a connection in his heart and heard directions in his mind.” In a Democratic presidential debate in late October, Mr. Kucinich acknowledged seeing something airborne that he couldn’t identify and then defused the issue with a joke about opening a campaign office in Roswell, N.M., the capital of unexplained sightings.

Since then, the long-shot candidate has refused to elaborate on the experience.

Now, after keeping quiet about the incident for a quarter of a century, the two people who say they were at Mr. Kucinich’s side that evening have come forward to describe an event which they say left them convinced that there’s intelligent life in outer space.

“At no time did I feel afraid, even though I felt very small,” says one witness, Paul Costanzo. “I sensed that I was in the presence of a greater technology and intelligence.”

The close encounter, says Mr. Costanzo, took place in September 1982 at Ms. MacLaine’s former home in Graham, Wash. — an expansive estate on a ridge above the Puyallup River, with a view of Mount Rainier.

The 61-year-old Mr. Kucinich, who declined several requests to comment for this article, had been the wunderkind mayor of Cleveland in the late 1970s and had met Ms. MacLaine through Bella Abzug, the late New York congresswoman and feminist. The actress says she quickly realized she and Mr. Kucinich were kindred spirits. Years later he asked Ms. MacLaine to be the godmother of his daughter.

“We just thought the same,” Ms. MacLaine says in an interview. “We have the same political points of view.”

When Cleveland voters ousted Mr. Kucinich after one tumultuous term, Ms. MacLaine offered him her home as a sanctuary where he could write his memoirs. He lived there for the better part of a year.

Also in residence was Mr. Costanzo, a Juilliard-trained trumpet player and jujitsu black belt, who worked as Ms. MacLaine’s assistant, personal trainer and bodyguard. He and Mr. Kucinich became good friends, and Mr. Costanzo, now 55 years old, served as deputy campaign director and security chief for the congressman’s unsuccessful 2004 presidential run.

Ms. MacLaine — well-known for her fascination with things mystical and extraterrestrial — was in Canada that weekend in 1982, performing her one-woman show. But Mr. Costanzo’s girlfriend at the time, a model and actress who is now 50 years old, was visiting when the UFO incident took place. She spoke after Mr. Costanzo requested she do so, and on condition that her name not be published.

Here’s what happened, according to separate interviews with Mr. Costanzo and his former girlfriend:

The day was strange from the start. For hours, Mr. Kucinich, Mr. Costanzo and his companion noticed a high-pitched sound. “There was a sense that something extraordinary was happening all day,” says the girlfriend. She and Mr. Costanzo say that none of the three consumed alcohol or took drugs.

As they sat down to a dinner, Mr. Kucinich spotted a light in the distance, to the left of Mount Rainier. Mr. Costanzo thought it was a helicopter.

But Mr. Kucinich walked outside to the deck to look through the telescope that he had bought Ms. MacLaine as a house gift. After a few minutes, Mr. Kucinich summoned the other two: “Guys, come on out here and look at this.”

Mr. Costanzo and his girlfriend joined Mr. Kucinich, where they took turns peering through the telescope. What they saw in the far distance, according to both witnesses, was a hovering light, which soon divided into two, and then three.

After a few minutes, the lights moved closer and it became apparent that they were actually three charcoal-gray, triangular craft, flying in a tight wedge. The girlfriend remembers each triangle having red and green lights running down the edges, with a laser-like red light at the tail. Mr. Costanzo recalls white lights, but no tail.

Mr. Costanzo says each triangle was roughly the size of a large van, while his former girlfriend compares it to a “larger Cessna, smaller than a jet certainly.” Neither recalls seeing any markings, landing gear, engines, windows or cockpits.

The craft approached to within 200 yards, suspended over the field just beyond the swimming pool. Both witnesses say it emitted a quiet, throbbing sound — nothing like an airplane engine.

“There was a feeling of wanting to communicate something, but I didn’t know what,” says Mr. Costanzo.

The craft held steady in midair, for perhaps a minute, then sped away, Mr. Costanzo says. “Nothing had landed,” he says. “No strange beings had disembarked. No obvious messages were beamed down. When they were completely out of sight, we all looked at each other disbelieving what we had seen.”

At Mr. Kucinich’s suggestion, they jotted down their impressions and drew pictures to memorialize the event. Mr. Kucinich kept the notes, according to Ms. MacLaine, who said he promised her recently that he would try to find them.

“It was proof to me that we’re obviously not alone,” says the girlfriend.

The next day, the group spotted what they thought to be military helicopters buzzing around the valley where they had made the sighting. And the high-pitched sound remained.

Mr. Kucinich called Ms. MacLaine in Canada to tell her what had happened. “He said it was beautiful, serene, and it moved him,” says Ms. MacLaine, who is supporting Mr. Kucinich’s candidacy. “He was not afraid of it, let’s put it that way. Seeing something that close and sophisticated and gentle.”

Ms. MacLaine says she has seen UFOs from a distance in New Mexico and Peru, but never up close. She was envious. “I’m the one who reports them, but they never make close visitation. What am I doing wrong?”

None of the three reported the incident to the authorities. And over the years that followed, they shared the story with very few people. “Unfortunately, people are ridiculed when they say they’ve had these kinds of experiences, which is why I never came forward with it,” says the girlfriend.

Ms. MacLaine says she called Mr. Kucinich before she included his UFO sighting in her book, “Sage-ing while Age-ing,” a recounting of her spiritual and professional journeys. “I can handle it,” she says he told her.

More recently, Mr. Kucinich has dodged it. Approached by The Wall Street Journal for comment in December — moments after he voted for a House resolution praising Christmas and Christianity — Mr. Kucinich looked unblinkingly ahead: “I don’t have any comment,” he said.

(Source: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB119923872081461417.html)

Kucinich UFO encounter

Paul Costanzo has had plenty of encounters with fame, thanks to his major trumpet chops and friends like Shirley MacLaine and Dennis Kucinich. Today his mug is on the front page of the Wall Street Journal. It’s not because of his financial prowess, however. Rather, it’s because Costanzo, 55, a Julliard-trained trumpeter, and a former girlfriend came forward to tell the Journal how Kucinich was not off his rocker when he said he saw UFOs.

They were with him at the time — and they saw them, too, they said.

It was 1982, well before Kucinich became a congressman and presidential candidate. Staying at the Washington state home of MacLaine, who was a mutual friend, the trio saw three charcoal-gray, triangular craft, according to the recollections of Costanzo and his then-girlfriend. The girlfriend, now 50, spoke to the Journal on condition that her name not be published.

“The girlfriend remembers each triangle having red and green lights running down the edges, with a laser-like red light at the tail,” the Journal reports. “Mr. Costanzo recalls white lights, but no tail.”

The human trio heard a quiet, throbbing sound, nothing like an airplane engine. “There was a feeling of wanting to communicate something, but I don’t know what,” Costanzo told the Journal.

This occurred over a field near MacLaine’s home while she was away performing a one-woman show in Canada. At the time, Costanzo was her assistant, personal trainer and bodyguard (he has a jujitsu black belt).

Afterward, Kucinich suggested that each memorialize what they’d seen by jotting down their impressions and drawing pictures, though they never called authorities. They told few people about the event. “Unfortunately, people are ridiculed when they say they’ve had these kinds of experiences, which is why I never came forward with it,” the girlfriend is quoted as saying.

Costanzo in 2004 worked in Kucinich’s presidential campaign, where he dressed nattily in black and exuded a Hollywood bodyguard-like cool. With bacheler’s and master’s degrees from Julliard, he played major trumpet gigs but now bills himself as a voice actor.

Kucinich’s UFO sighting was first disclosed in MacLaine’s new book. Kucinich has made small jokes about it when asked in public forums but has not elaborated. Nor would he when the Journal asked. His one direct quote: “I don’t have any comment.”

(Source: http://blog.cleveland.com)

Presidential Hopefuls, UFOs and ETs

Presidents and UFOs. It’s a subject long debated by serious UFO/Extraterrestrial researchers and one with quite a bit of history. For instance, a fleet of UFOs were seen flying over the nation’s capital, right over the White House at one point, back in 1952. Jimmy Carter claims to have seen a UFO, John F. Kennedy was supposedly assassinated over the issue of extraterrestrials according to some conspiracy theories, Bill Clinton spoke on the subject of Roswell in Belfast, Ireland, and Ronald Reagan even mentioned extraterrestrial life in several speeches.

And now we have New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson running for President. It was only a matter of time before a flying saucer would streak across his campaign path.

A few months ago, had you googled the words Bill Richardson and Roswell you most likely would have gotten matches pertaining to the Governor visiting the town, approving a project here and there, or the foreword he wrote to the book The Roswell Dig Diaries. Now google Bill Richardson and Roswell and you will likely get a bevy of blogs buzzing about his recent comments at a Round Rock, TX, Town Hall Meeting to look into the Roswell files if elected President.

At the town hall meeting a Dell employee asked Richardson about the Roswell Incident to which Richardson replied, “I’ve been in government a long time; I’ve been in the Cabinet; I’ve been in the Congress; and I’ve always felt that the government doesn’t tell the truth as much as it should on a lot of issues.”

The Governor continued to relate how when he was a member of Congress he asked the Department of Defense about any data they had on the Roswell Incident to which he was told the records were classified.

“That ticked me off,” Richardson said eliciting a laugh from the crowd.

Richardson then asked the Dell employee who had asked about Roswell if he would like him to open the Roswell files one day if elected. Of course the man said yes.

Richardson’s reply? “I’ll work with you on that.”

That rather brief and vague answer generated the news story which would eventually go on to carry the headline:

I’ll look into Roswell UFO files if elected president, Gov. Bill Richardson says

But, does anyone really believe Richardson would make any headway declassifying information even if he did manage to become President of the United States?

Stephen Basset, the head of X-PPAC (Extraterrestrial Phenomena Political Action Committee), thinks so. In an interview with Fox News Basset said he felt Bill Richardson and Hillary Clinton were the candidates with the best chances for bringing to light the truth behind the UFO cover-up.

Basset also said, “[Richardson] is, unequivocally, the leading candidate, in my opinion, for the Vice Presidential slot on the next democratic ticket.”

It’s also interesting to note that Basset made these comments before Richardson made his at Round Rock, TX.

Still, others remain skeptical of classified UFO information being declassified anytime soon.

Grant Cameron who runs presidentialufo.com doesn’t think Richardson is likely to win, and reminds people that Bill Clinton tried to look into the Roswell files as well to no avail. “If Bill as President couldn’t get it, Richardson has no chance.” said Cameron.

UFO columnist Leslie Gunter has similar thoughts. “I don’t believe he will get anything disclosed about UFOs, even if he was elected President. He may look into it, as he has promised, but he will either meet a dead end or be told a bit of the truth at which time he will clam up for National Security reasons.” said Gunter. “Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton were interested in UFOs, but none of them got the truth, or if they did they didn’t disclose it to the public. I don’t see Richardson being any different.”

Richardson’s campaign staff remains mum on his Roswell comments when asked. Blogger Billy Cox tried to get more information on the situation but Richardson staffer Max Feldman wrote to Cox that, “We don’t have a comment on this at this point.”

Ironically enough though it seems to be presidential hopeful Dennis Kucinich who’s getting the blunt of attention for UFOs. Kucinich, who claims to have seen a UFO over, of all places, Shirley MacLaine’s house nearly 25 years ago, was asked about the incident by Tim Russert at a Democratic presidential debate. After replying honestly about his sighting Kucinich would suffer a great deal of media ridicule about the subject from then on.

But a funny thing happened. Soon after that many other candidates were asked about the UFO issue. Barack Obama, luckily for him never having seen a UFO before, managed to slyly work his way out of the E.T. question. John McCain said he had never seen a UFO but, “I keep looking all the time.” And Rudy Giuliani answered an 8-year old girl who had asked about being invaded by evil aliens that the US would be prepared for anything that happened in the case of an alien invasion.

But in the end is the UFO question really a deciding factor in the 2008 election? And does anyone believe that any of the candidates take the UFO issue very seriously? Although Richardson’s comments may have gotten some excited and garnered plenty of speculation, he was more likely than not just catering to his audience in Round Rock, TX, like any normal politician would.

(Source: http://www.mystrangenewmexico.com)

Kucinich’s close encounter

The presidential candidate’s televised acknowledgment of seeing a UFO has put the issue back on the radar.

Although it’s unlikely that voters will ever have anything resembling a close encounter with Rep. Dennis J. Kucinich (D-Ohio), the two-time presidential hopeless has helped revive an issue that means more to many Americans than any election: suppression of UFO evidence by the men in black.

You may recall that during a recent MSNBC Democratic presidential candidates’ debate, moderator Tim Russert drew out Kucinich on the revelation (by Oscar-winning paranormal investigator Shirley MacLaine) that he had once spotted a “triangular craft, silent and hovering.” Kucinich’s reply, which was intriguing in its own right, came at a conjunction of — well, maybe not of UFO activity, but certainly of UFO aficionado activity.

This fall saw the first anniversary of the multiple-witness saucer incident over the United Airlines terminal at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport, which is already shaping up as this decade’s great sighting. In late October, a federal judge ordered NASA to search its records for information on one of two fabled UFO sightings from 1965.

And last month, the New York-based Coalition for Freedom of Information held a conference at which more than a score of pilots from around the world gathered to share their experiences with unidentified flying objects. Moderator Fife Symington (the controversial former governor of Arizona) summed up the conference by calling for the government to stop perpetuating “the myth that ALL UFOs can be explained away in down-to-earth, conventional terms” and reopen its official Blue Book investigation, which has been closed since 1969.

Are we on the verge of an alien breakthrough? Is this new critical mass of respectable UFO hawks about to rout the army of dissembling federal agents, driving around in their 1964 Chevy Malibus with their shades and fixed smiles?

Probably not. There have been high-profile flying saucer enthusiasts in the past, including astronauts Buzz Aldrin, who spotted a mysterious something during Apollo 11′s return trip, and the late Gordon Cooper, who once informed the United Nations, “I believe that . . . extraterrestrial vehicles and their crews are visiting this planet from other planets, which are a little more technically advanced than we are on Earth.”

Kucinich mentioned in his own defense that President Carter was a UFO witness, and he might have mentioned that Ronald Reagan was as well. Then again, if you think presidents really run the country, well, that’s what “they” want you to think.

If anything keeps the cult of the UFO alive, it’s not the respectability of the witnesses but the clumsy, protesting-too-much denials of government agencies. The Federal Aviation Administration got caught in a fib about last year’s O’Hare incident after the Chicago Tribune filed a Freedom of Information Act request. And it’s somewhat perverse to call for reopening a federal UFO investigation given how universally hated the knee-jerk-skeptical Project Blue Book turned out to be.

John Podesta, the Clinton White House chief of staff who has never disguised his interest in flying saucers, makes the case that the government should declassify its UFO-related materials “and let people have at it,” a demand that is as reasonable as it is unlikely to happen, given how easily this topic can be rerouted into japery.

In his debate reply, Kucinich made a point dear to respectable UFO investigators: “It was an unidentified flying object, OK?” he said. “It’s like … it was unidentified. I saw something.” There’s a difference between saying objects in the sky are sometimes not familiar and claiming to have been probed by taciturn “grays,” and people such as Coalition for Freedom of Information co-founder Leslie Kean express understandable frustration that UFO ridicule purposely blurs that distinction.

But with Kucinich as a central advocate, ridicule may be unavoidable. In the debate, Kucinich made a self-deprecating joke about moving his campaign headquarters to “Roswell, New Mexico, and another one in Exeter, New Hampshire.” Roswell everybody knows about, but with the easy reference to the 1965 Exeter incident, Kucinich leaves the impression that he’s not just a UFO witness, he’s a buff.

Let him go on, and we suspect Kucinich will soon be expanding on the Kecksburg sightings, the Val Johnson incident, Lonnie Zamora, the “Kaikoura lights” and countless other visitations from the sky that continue to sustain our nation’s sense of mystery.

(Source: http://www.latimes.com)

Kucinich’s close encounter

The presidential candidate’s televised acknowledgment of seeing a UFO has put the issue back on the radar.

Although it’s unlikely that voters will ever have anything resembling a close encounter with Rep. Dennis J. Kucinich (D-Ohio), the two-time presidential hopeless has helped revive an issue that means more to many Americans than any election: suppression of UFO evidence by the men in black.

You may recall that during a recent MSNBC Democratic presidential candidates’ debate, moderator Tim Russert drew out Kucinich on the revelation (by Oscar-winning paranormal investigator Shirley MacLaine) that he had once spotted a “triangular craft, silent and hovering.” Kucinich’s reply, which was intriguing in its own right, came at a conjunction of — well, maybe not of UFO activity, but certainly of UFO aficionado activity.

This fall saw the first anniversary of the multiple-witness saucer incident over the United Airlines terminal at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport, which is already shaping up as this decade’s great sighting. In late October, a federal judge ordered NASA to search its records for information on one of two fabled UFO sightings from 1965.

And last month, the New York-based Coalition for Freedom of Information held a conference at which more than a score of pilots from around the world gathered to share their experiences with unidentified flying objects. Moderator Fife Symington (the controversial former governor of Arizona) summed up the conference by calling for the government to stop perpetuating “the myth that ALL UFOs can be explained away in down-to-earth, conventional terms” and reopen its official Blue Book investigation, which has been closed since 1969.

Are we on the verge of an alien breakthrough? Is this new critical mass of respectable UFO hawks about to rout the army of dissembling federal agents, driving around in their 1964 Chevy Malibus with their shades and fixed smiles?

Probably not. There have been high-profile flying saucer enthusiasts in the past, including astronauts Buzz Aldrin, who spotted a mysterious something during Apollo 11′s return trip, and the late Gordon Cooper, who once informed the United Nations, “I believe that . . . extraterrestrial vehicles and their crews are visiting this planet from other planets, which are a little more technically advanced than we are on Earth.”

Kucinich mentioned in his own defense that President Carter was a UFO witness, and he might have mentioned that Ronald Reagan was as well. Then again, if you think presidents really run the country, well, that’s what “they” want you to think.

If anything keeps the cult of the UFO alive, it’s not the respectability of the witnesses but the clumsy, protesting-too-much denials of government agencies. The Federal Aviation Administration got caught in a fib about last year’s O’Hare incident after the Chicago Tribune filed a Freedom of Information Act request. And it’s somewhat perverse to call for reopening a federal UFO investigation given how universally hated the knee-jerk-skeptical Project Blue Book turned out to be.

John Podesta, the Clinton White House chief of staff who has never disguised his interest in flying saucers, makes the case that the government should declassify its UFO-related materials “and let people have at it,” a demand that is as reasonable as it is unlikely to happen, given how easily this topic can be rerouted into japery.

In his debate reply, Kucinich made a point dear to respectable UFO investigators: “It was an unidentified flying object, OK?” he said. “It’s like … it was unidentified. I saw something.” There’s a difference between saying objects in the sky are sometimes not familiar and claiming to have been probed by taciturn “grays,” and people such as Coalition for Freedom of Information co-founder Leslie Kean express understandable frustration that UFO ridicule purposely blurs that distinction.

But with Kucinich as a central advocate, ridicule may be unavoidable. In the debate, Kucinich made a self-deprecating joke about moving his campaign headquarters to “Roswell, New Mexico, and another one in Exeter, New Hampshire.” Roswell everybody knows about, but with the easy reference to the 1965 Exeter incident, Kucinich leaves the impression that he’s not just a UFO witness, he’s a buff.

Let him go on, and we suspect Kucinich will soon be expanding on the Kecksburg sightings, the Val Johnson incident, Lonnie Zamora, the “Kaikoura lights” and countless other visitations from the sky that continue to sustain our nation’s sense of mystery.

(Source: http://www.latimes.com)

UFOs? That’s a good question, Tim, but I’ve got even better ones

John McCain got a standing ovation during a debate recently when he said of the peace, love and music festival known as Woodstock, “I wasn’t there. I’m sure it was a cultural and pharmaceutical event. I was tied up at the time.”

That shot across the cultural divide came as McCain was dissing Hillary Clinton’s failed old attempt to fund a museum at Woodstock, New York.

The moment comes to mind when I consider the most condescending question asked in any presidential debate this year. Maybe it’s because McCain’s attack on Woodstock, like Tim Russert’s question (I’ll get to that, I swear) seems so beside the point. Maybe it’s because McCain was flying high above the rice paddies of North Vietnam in what must’ve seemed an alien machine to the peasants below, shortly before he was shot down and taken prisoner in North Vietnam. Anyhow, the question Russert asked Dennis Kucinich during a recent Democratic debate was this:

“Shirley MacLaine writes in her new book that you sighted a UFO over her home in Washington state, that you found the encounter extremely moving, that it was a triangular craft, silent and hovering…. Now, did you see a UFO?”An entertaining exchange ensued, but the short answer was “yes.”

Never mind that it’s a misleading question. (Can YOU identify everything you ever saw in the sky? If not, then you too have seen an unidentified flying object or UFO, my friend. Gee, was that a chicken-hawk shooting past my window just now?)

Never mind that 46 percent of Americans say UFOs are real, more than “believe in” the war in Iraq.

Never mind that what Dennis Kucinich saw was most likely Dick Cheney’s post-apocalypse kandy-kolored tangerine-flake streamline flying getaway gizmo. (OK, I stole some of that from Tom Wolfe.)

Never mind that the question has nothing on earth to do with the mess we’re facing as a species (global warming, nukes, Neocon schemes)….

It suited Russert’s needs. What needs? Why, to humiliate and embarrass Kucinich, of course. Sort of like the lie repeated in our so-called “liberal media” during the 2000 campaign, that Al Gore claimed to have invented the Internet.

You have to wonder about Russert’s motives, especially as he posed his UFO question on the eve of Kucinich’s call for a vote on the House floor as to whether Russert’s former neighbor, Cheney, should be impeached for lying us into war against Iraq and beating the drums for bombing Iran.

…

(Full article: http://www.opednews.com)

UFOs? That’s a good question, Tim, but I’ve got even better ones

John McCain got a standing ovation during a debate recently when he said of the peace, love and music festival known as Woodstock, “I wasn’t there. I’m sure it was a cultural and pharmaceutical event. I was tied up at the time.”

That shot across the cultural divide came as McCain was dissing Hillary Clinton’s failed old attempt to fund a museum at Woodstock, New York.

The moment comes to mind when I consider the most condescending question asked in any presidential debate this year. Maybe it’s because McCain’s attack on Woodstock, like Tim Russert’s question (I’ll get to that, I swear) seems so beside the point. Maybe it’s because McCain was flying high above the rice paddies of North Vietnam in what must’ve seemed an alien machine to the peasants below, shortly before he was shot down and taken prisoner in North Vietnam. Anyhow, the question Russert asked Dennis Kucinich during a recent Democratic debate was this:

“Shirley MacLaine writes in her new book that you sighted a UFO over her home in Washington state, that you found the encounter extremely moving, that it was a triangular craft, silent and hovering…. Now, did you see a UFO?”An entertaining exchange ensued, but the short answer was “yes.”

Never mind that it’s a misleading question. (Can YOU identify everything you ever saw in the sky? If not, then you too have seen an unidentified flying object or UFO, my friend. Gee, was that a chicken-hawk shooting past my window just now?)

Never mind that 46 percent of Americans say UFOs are real, more than “believe in” the war in Iraq.

Never mind that what Dennis Kucinich saw was most likely Dick Cheney’s post-apocalypse kandy-kolored tangerine-flake streamline flying getaway gizmo. (OK, I stole some of that from Tom Wolfe.)

Never mind that the question has nothing on earth to do with the mess we’re facing as a species (global warming, nukes, Neocon schemes)….

It suited Russert’s needs. What needs? Why, to humiliate and embarrass Kucinich, of course. Sort of like the lie repeated in our so-called “liberal media” during the 2000 campaign, that Al Gore claimed to have invented the Internet.

You have to wonder about Russert’s motives, especially as he posed his UFO question on the eve of Kucinich’s call for a vote on the House floor as to whether Russert’s former neighbor, Cheney, should be impeached for lying us into war against Iraq and beating the drums for bombing Iran.

…

(Full article: http://www.opednews.com)

Rep. Dennis Kucinich: Effort to Impeach Vice President Cheney Still Alive

On Tuesday, Dennis Kucinich nearly forced the full House to vote on his measure to impeach Cheney. House Resolution 333 accuses Cheney of deliberately manipulating intelligence and deceiving the public to build support for the invasion of Iraq and now towards a possible attack on Iran. [includes rush transcript]

(Full article: http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/09/1455244)