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[jfb]

Today on Forum the guest was Dennis Kucinich. He used the words "hegemony" and "predicated" in the same paragraph, both correctly. It's no wonder he's not going to be President. Later he quoted the Bible, but then he said "predicated" again. It's a damn shame.

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[copperqueen.livejournal.com]

Poor, poor Dennis.

[artname.livejournal.com]

He also had a phone-in segment on the KFOG Morning Show. When he said things like, 'after I'm nominated' I didn't know if I should laugh or cry.

Honestly, he can't believe he really will be nominated, and to say so doesn't help his credibility, which is a shame, since I want his voice heard.

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[jfb.livejournal.com]

All candidates do this to some extent, and he's been very consistent on it. On Forum he was asked which candidates he might support if somehow he doesn't end up as the nominee, and he said (roughly): "The way I live my life is, I decide on an outcome, and I focus on making that outcome happen. So I haven't even given any thought to that question." Fair enough, although I think soon he should start looking for other outcomes to desire.

Today for the first time I tried listening to it an alternate way, which you might enjoy too: When he says "when I am President," he's not saying "next January," he's saying "some years from now, when my progressive message has been heard and adopted by the American people." It's still unlikely, but it's not straightforwardly counterfactual.

It's also not what he means, but I find that disregarding what he means makes me a little less sad about it.

[randomchef.livejournal.com]

He used the words "hegemony" and "predicated" in the same paragraph, both correctly. It's no wonder he's not going to be President.

LOL. so true, so true.

[(Anonymous)]

I saw him speak this Saturday--he was (is?) in MN and spoke at a fundraiser for an organization my fiance is involved with.

Though I imagine it was a fairly standard speech for him, it was not a typical stump speech. It was well-articulated, thoughtful, and he quoted, among others, Shelley and Emerson. And unlike when certain other public officials speak, I found myself thinking, "I bet he's actually read those books." I don't know how he'd be as a president, but he'd be a pretty good professor.

-B

[jfb.livejournal.com]

Yeah. Kate added this in email: "When I went to see him this weekend he used 'dialectic' and 'circumference' in the same paragraph."