Kucinich's Vision is Light Years Ahead of Other Candidates

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	• A Prayer for America Dennis J Kucinich, Studs Turkel, 2003 - 160 pages average customer review:based on 43 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Great speeches from a great man

This collection of recent speeches really allow you to get a glimpse into the mind and, most importantly, heart of Dennis Kucinich. There is little partisan politics in his words; they come from the heart, and this is readily apparent if you give this book a chance.

In my mind, Kucinich is one of the best speakers in politics not because of careful preparation (he doesn't prepare them more often than not, and when he does, he does them himself) and political hedging (his standing is never a mystery), but because of his pure unadultered passion for humanity and for this country.

If you enjoy the speeches from this book, you'd love listening to one live; his voice resonates beyond the space between you and him, throughout your body, and into the world above.

I once had the opportunity to meet Kucinich, and I asked him about how he prepares his speeches. He told me that he almost never carry written preparation with him, and usually just lets his passion speak.

I continue to be impressed by this man.

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Kucinich's Vision is Light Years Ahead of Other Candidates

Dennis Kucinich's laserlike ability to get right to the heart of any issue and understand that issue comprehensively is far ahead of the other people masquerading as Presidential candidates.
Having recently re-read the book, I'd like to say that Kucinich is just as good a writer as he is a public speaker--and he is an electrifying public speaker. Very few people can write and speak equally well but Kucinich does.
He is highly intelligent but explains complex issues in plain, everyday language that everyone can understand.
I am anxiously awaiting his autobiography, "The Courage to Survive" which will be a classic!

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Not bad, but not good...

As a former resident of the great city of Cleveland, I am absolutely astounded by how Dennis Kucinich has managed to continuously redefine himself without regard to principle, for the sake of career. This book is a complete example of Kucinich's propensity for misrepresenting what Dennis is actually all about.

I will never cease to be amazed at how the Democratic party of FDR mutated into the Democratic party of the Smothers Brothers. FDR's party stood for the working man, unions, fair trade laws, and looking out for the little guy.

Today's Democratic party is built upon the foundation of a woman's right to choose, the concept of gay marriage, and pacifism.

Not that there's anything wrong with that. But... as far as all of the above are concerned, personally, I don't care one way or another. I can relate more to the wicked queen turned hag in Disney's "Snow White" (Who I am told, I resemble), and could care less about a woman's right to choose. At fifty-four, I never had to, and I doubt that I'll ever have to make that sort of a choice anyway.

Would I want to have the option available to me? Probably, especially since I know that thousands of other women before me have had that option. But I'm going off on a tangient here.

I've read most of "A Prayer for America" and I can honestly say that most of the sentiments expressed are nice, but fail to take into account the concepts of human nature and especially, the concept of evil. I too, wish that the world could be such a Utopia. Check this out, Dennis: On the heels of anarchy come the sounds of the Stormtrooper's boots.

Someday, the sun will evolve into a red giant, and eventually a white dwarf. By that time, Cleveland's Terminal Tower and everything that surrounds it will be reduced to dust, and Lake Erie will have long evaporated. All that will remain will be the residual energy left from acts of humility and kindness.

Even though he didn't put it that way, at least Dennis got that right. Even though I doubt that it will, I hope that "A Prayer for America" proves to be worth the lives of the trees that made the ultimate sacrifice for it.

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A Prayer for America

This Masterpiece by Dennis kucinich is a must read. in the book he talks about what America is looking for in a president and how he himself can answer the prayers that many Americans are asking for... and that prayer is peace, love, and justice Dennis is all of those. After reading this i wish i had the chance to vote for him in the last democradic election. Things could have been a lot better for us all.

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When Congressman Dennis Kucinich delivered his speech, "A Prayer for America," to the Southern California chapter of Americans for Democratic Action, it electrified the whole country. In his speech, Kucinich?a 2004 presidential candidate?warned against an America that had discarded the constitutional liberties integral to its identity: "Let us pray that our nation will remember that the unfolding of the promise of democracy in our nation paralleled the striving for civil rights. That is why we must challenge the rationale of the Patriot Act. We must ask why should America put aside guarantees of constitutional justice?" A Prayer for America collects Kucinich's essays and speeches. It represents his holistic worldview and carries with it a passionate commitment to public service, peace, human rights, workers' rights, and the environment. His advocacy of a Department of Peace seeks not only to make nonviolence an organizing principle in our society, but to make war a thing of the past. A Prayer for America includes an introductory essay from Kucinich that reflects on his political journey from his election as the youngest mayor of a major American city to his role as a dynamic, visionary leader of the Progressive Caucus of the Congressional Democrats.

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