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Fuck ABC and the Democratic Party for excluding Dennis Kucinich from last night’s debate. He’s polling ahead of Richardson and they let Richardson in. The difference is that Richardson’s ideas are within the boundaries of acceptable mainstream debate and Kucinich’s – peace! now, really, what is that? – aren’t.

For what it’s worth I guess Dodd was my favorite Democrat due to his heroic stand in the Senate on the warantless wiretapping issue. But Dodd is out now. So now I guess my favorite is Kucinich and he’ll get my vote in New York’s primary on February 5.

If I have to pick one of the Big Three, I guess it’s Edwards. It’s hard to forgive him for his vote on the war and his mediocre performance in 2004, but Clinton still thinks her war vote was a good idea and Obama is running against the party, so Edwards kind of wins by default.

If Edwards is out and I have to pick one of the Big Two, it’s Obama. He might fail miserably at every progressive initiative but he’ll probably kill less people with bombs than Clinton will.

If Clinton gets nominated I will not vote for her unless her opponent is Rudolph Giuliani and he has a real shot at winning in New York.

In the GOP, Ron Paul is obviously the man. I know he has crazy ideas but all the Republican candidates have ideas about foreign policy that make Ron Paul look like a genius. But their crazy ideas have mainstream acceptance and Paul’s don’t, so he’s crazy and they’re not.

It’s like that Twilight Zone episode where everybody went crazy and the one guy was sane. Although they were all like that.