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The Kucinich Presidential campaign has unveiled its first television commercial -- "No more blood for oil" -- and is previewing it with supporters and friends on the campaign website http://kucinich.us/node/4580/play and on popular Internet sites, including YouTube and MySpace. Using the all-too-familiar sights and sounds of a gas pump ringing up the higher and higher cost of filling up the tank, the pump then begins registering even higher and more disturbing numbers: dead and wounded U.S. soldiers; innocent Iraqis killed, wounded, and displaced; the staggering profits of oil companies; potential profits from "stealing Iraq's oil;" and U.S. tax dollars spent...

Long-shot presidential candidate's event dwarfed by competitors' The steamroller that is Dennis Kucinich's presidential campaign rolled into Las Vegas on Saturday night for a fundraising dinner. The exclusive $25-per-plate dinner for the long shot Democratic aspirant, at Tipps Thai Cuisine on Spring Mountain Road, had the potential, what with the silent auction and all, to raise thousands of dollars for the elfin peace candidate. Thousands. Probably not five figures, but definitely thousands. The math: About 70 true-blue Kucinichites showed. For various reasons, two or three more people ate, and those guys count on the expenses side of the event, even...