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10-10-2007, 11:06 PM
Kucinich seeks presidency on Second Life
Posted by Sabrina Eaton October 04, 2007 11:25AM
http://blog.cleveland.com/openers/2007/10/kucinich_seeks_presidency_on_s.html
After taking his presidential campaign as far afield as Syria and Lebanon, Cleveland Democratic Rep. Dennis Kucinich is venturing into an alternate universe for votes: Second Life, an online 3-D virtual world entirely built and owned by its 9.8 million users from around the globe.
A trippy video his campaign posted on YouTube shows off the campaign's virtual HQ, and tells viewers they can "teleport" themselves there by going to the site and searching for "Kucinich for President 2008."
Earlier this week, Comedy Central posted a video by comedian Stephen Colbert that satirizes Kucinich's habit of whipping items out of his pocket and waving them around onstage during campaign appearances. Citing a 1999 Plain Dealer article in which Kucinich slipped a used tea bag into his pocket, Colbert challenges Kucinich to empty out his pockets on television.
"Not even Mike Gravel is crazy enough to keep used tea bags in his pockets," Colbert raves. "He puts them in his hobo bindle."
To view that video, visit the Comedy Central website, click on the "More videos" link, do a search on "Kucinich" and click on the first item that comes up.
Another recent video by the opinion page of The Wichita Eagle newspaper in Kansas satirizes Kucinich and GOP presidential candidate Fred Thompson for having younger wives. It's a musical takeoff on the novelty tune "I'm My Own Grandpa," only this one is called "I'm My Wife's Grandpa." The section on Kucinich goes like this:
Folks wonder why a nerd like me could have a wife so fine
And every time I think of her, it really blows my mind
She's 31 years younger and about a foot more tall
Who cares what anybody thinks when I'm my wife's grandpa?
Elizabeth Kucinich doesn't seem to care about the age gap, to judge from comments she made in this Kucinich campaign video, which shows a Sept. 24 trip the pair made to Santa Barbara City College in California.
"Dennis and I have a massive generational gap in our relationship," she tells a group of students. "This candidacy here really shows the broad spectrum of understanding between the older generation and the coming up generations."
Kucinich also was profiled this week by the Chicago Tribune. Bloggers at the Wonkette website described the flattering piece as "blissfully delusional," among other terms The Plain Dealer could never print.
Incidentally, Kucinich will turn 61 on Monday, and his supporters have created a website where people can write him a birthday message and make a campaign donation. Its organizer says she's "aiming for 5,000 signatures and a total of $50,000!!!!"
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Posted by Sabrina Eaton October 04, 2007 11:25AM
http://blog.cleveland.com/openers/2007/10/kucinich_seeks_presidency_on_s.html
After taking his presidential campaign as far afield as Syria and Lebanon, Cleveland Democratic Rep. Dennis Kucinich is venturing into an alternate universe for votes: Second Life, an online 3-D virtual world entirely built and owned by its 9.8 million users from around the globe.
A trippy video his campaign posted on YouTube shows off the campaign's virtual HQ, and tells viewers they can "teleport" themselves there by going to the site and searching for "Kucinich for President 2008."
Earlier this week, Comedy Central posted a video by comedian Stephen Colbert that satirizes Kucinich's habit of whipping items out of his pocket and waving them around onstage during campaign appearances. Citing a 1999 Plain Dealer article in which Kucinich slipped a used tea bag into his pocket, Colbert challenges Kucinich to empty out his pockets on television.
"Not even Mike Gravel is crazy enough to keep used tea bags in his pockets," Colbert raves. "He puts them in his hobo bindle."
To view that video, visit the Comedy Central website, click on the "More videos" link, do a search on "Kucinich" and click on the first item that comes up.
Another recent video by the opinion page of The Wichita Eagle newspaper in Kansas satirizes Kucinich and GOP presidential candidate Fred Thompson for having younger wives. It's a musical takeoff on the novelty tune "I'm My Own Grandpa," only this one is called "I'm My Wife's Grandpa." The section on Kucinich goes like this:
Folks wonder why a nerd like me could have a wife so fine
And every time I think of her, it really blows my mind
She's 31 years younger and about a foot more tall
Who cares what anybody thinks when I'm my wife's grandpa?
Elizabeth Kucinich doesn't seem to care about the age gap, to judge from comments she made in this Kucinich campaign video, which shows a Sept. 24 trip the pair made to Santa Barbara City College in California.
"Dennis and I have a massive generational gap in our relationship," she tells a group of students. "This candidacy here really shows the broad spectrum of understanding between the older generation and the coming up generations."
Kucinich also was profiled this week by the Chicago Tribune. Bloggers at the Wonkette website described the flattering piece as "blissfully delusional," among other terms The Plain Dealer could never print.
Incidentally, Kucinich will turn 61 on Monday, and his supporters have created a website where people can write him a birthday message and make a campaign donation. Its organizer says she's "aiming for 5,000 signatures and a total of $50,000!!!!"
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