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CBS’s Smith ‘Admired’ Kucinich ‘Since He was Mayor of Cleveland’
News Busters ^ | November 2, 2007 | Kyle Drennen |

Posted on 11/03/2007 8:43:45 AM PDT by george76

While previewing an upcoming interview with extreme left-wing presidential candidate, Dennis Kucinich, on Friday’s CBS "Early Show," co-host Harry Smith remarked, "I've actually admired Dennis Kucinich for a long -- since he was mayor of Cleveland."

In addition to Smith admitting that he admired someone as liberal as Kucinich, who wants to establish a Department of Peace and claims to have seen UFOs, Smith specifically mentioned Kucinich’s disastrous tenure as Mayor of Cleveland, Ohio.

Even The New York Times could not ignore Kucinich’s failures as mayor in a 2003 candidate profile:

" But it all came crashing quickly down when Mr. Kucinich presided over the city's plunge into default in 1978.

The collapse attracted international ridicule and, except for a brief sojourn on the City Council in the early 80's, left the obstreperous boy wonder in political exile for 15 years...[he] was elected mayor in 1977 and governed the city with a tight circle of friends. But Cleveland's finances, already troubled, spiraled out of control.

The climactic moment came in December 1978, when the city was unable to meet $14.5 million in bond obligations. Despite pressure from the business community, Mayor Kucinich refused to sell the municipal electric system to cover the debt.

Cleveland went bust, as did his career."

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TOPICS: Extended News; Government; Politics/Elections; US: Ohio
KEYWORDS: cbsnews; democratparty; denniskucinich; elections; harrysmith; kucinich
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1 posted on 11/03/2007 8:43:47 AM PDT by george76
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To: BIGLOOK

Dept of PEACE ...

http://youtube.com/watch?v=dXD2-HIXLy0


2 posted on 11/03/2007 8:45:34 AM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: george76
Media bais? NONSENSE!!!

Trophy Wife:

Not a trophy wife:

Any questions?

3 posted on 11/03/2007 8:46:30 AM PDT by null and void (No more Bushes/No more Clintons)
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To: george76
Is the rumor true that Hillary is trying to steal Kucinich’s new wife?
4 posted on 11/03/2007 8:48:02 AM PDT by HuntsvilleTxVeteran (Remember the Alamo, Goliad and WACO, It is Time for a new San Jacinto)
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To: PhilDragoo; Clintonfatigued; fieldmarshaldj; Grampa Dave

Dennis Kucinich UFO...just like Jimmy Carter ?

http://youtube.com/watch?v=gSRWRbuMqyc


5 posted on 11/03/2007 8:48:33 AM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: null and void; potlatch

6 posted on 11/03/2007 8:51:25 AM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: HuntsvilleTxVeteran

She’s been there and she’s done that.


7 posted on 11/03/2007 8:52:11 AM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: george76

All that is missing is the killer rabbit attack.


8 posted on 11/03/2007 8:53:27 AM PDT by Old North State
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To: george76

News Reporter: Mr. Kucinich, when you first met your wife, recognizing she is so much taller than you, how did you respond?

Kucinich: “My friend put me up to it!”


9 posted on 11/03/2007 9:01:45 AM PDT by TRY ONE (NUKE the unborn gay whales!)
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To: null and void

The redhead has herself a trophy lawn gnome.

10 posted on 11/03/2007 9:25:15 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (~~~Jihad Fever -- Catch It !~~~ (Backup tag: "Live Fred or Die"))
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To: Old North State
All that is missing is the killer rabbit attack.

And the tank! Don't forget the tank!

11 posted on 11/03/2007 9:31:21 AM PDT by Grut
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To: george76

12 posted on 11/03/2007 9:35:09 AM PDT by abb (The Dinosaur Media: A One-Way Medium in a Two-Way World)
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To: fieldmarshaldj
The redhead has herself a trophy lawn gnome.

OH MAN...YOU OWE ME A NEW COMPUTER SCREEN...FOFLMAO!!

13 posted on 11/03/2007 9:39:33 AM PDT by fedupjohn (If we try to fight the war on terror with eyes shut + ears packed with wax, innocent people will die)
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To: fedupjohn

Can you just imagine the idiots that elect this guy year-after-year. What a bunch of goofs!


14 posted on 11/03/2007 9:45:02 AM PDT by baiamonte
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To: george76

Dennis did do some good things as mayor. He stood up to the corrupt establishment (the mob even ordered a hit on him at one point because he was upsetting the system). I recall he kicked a microphone cord to knock a live radio broadcast off the air one time. (Anyone who will take on the MSM can’t be all bad. And, as near as I can tell, the man is completely honest - perhaps the only democrat politician who is.


15 posted on 11/03/2007 10:02:03 AM PDT by PAR35
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To: PAR35
Say what you like about him - he doesn't lie well enough to be elected President. He is completely sincere.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

16 posted on 11/03/2007 10:03:29 AM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: goldstategop

I can’t stand any of his political leanings but I do admire the fact that he sticks by his word and won’t lie to anyone. He is as wierd as a blind bat and somewhat goofy, but he does believe in what he says, and that is his only saving grace to me.


17 posted on 11/03/2007 10:24:12 AM PDT by geezerwheezer (get up boys, we're burnin' daylight!!!)
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To: george76
Dept of Peace?


Ahh yes.......in Philadelphia....

18 posted on 11/03/2007 11:41:52 AM PDT by BIGLOOK (Keelhauling is a sensible solution to mutiny.)
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To: BIGLOOK

lol


19 posted on 11/03/2007 11:53:43 AM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: george76

Dennis was a disaster of a mayor in Cleveland.
Kucinich is and always has been a geeky little moron.


20 posted on 11/03/2007 12:07:51 PM PDT by Joe Boucher (An enemy of Islam)
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