{"id":440,"date":"2003-08-17T19:37:03","date_gmt":"2003-08-17T23:37:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/metasj\/2003\/08\/17\/kucinich-a-real-political-blogger\/"},"modified":"2003-08-17T19:37:03","modified_gmt":"2003-08-17T23:37:03","slug":"kucinich-a-real-political-blogger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/2003\/08\/17\/kucinich-a-real-political-blogger\/","title":{"rendered":"Kucinich:  A Real Political Blogger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a202'><\/a><\/p>\n<p><P>Kucinich is my <STRONG>hero<\/STRONG> this weekend.&nbsp; I just finished reading his guest posts on Larry Lessig&#8217;s blog (scroll down in the <A href=\"http:\/\/www.lessig.org\/blog\/archives\/2003_08.shtml\">August archives<\/A>&nbsp;to see them), and they&#8217;re <STRONG>damn good<\/STRONG>.&nbsp; He writes at length and from the heart, takes on difficult issues that commenters raise, and seems to be devising his answers on the spot.&nbsp; In contrast, Dean (the <A href=\"http:\/\/www.lessig.org\/blog\/archives\/2003_07.shtml\">previous month&#8217;s<\/A> guest-blogger for Lessig) stuck to short, carefully-phrased paragraphs about the standard issues which he&nbsp;covers at every speech and public forum. Kucinich also has his own, sporadically-updated <A href=\"http:\/\/www.denniskucinich.us\/index.php?topic=blog\"><STRONG>blog<\/STRONG><\/A>, which is similarly well-written.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>For this, he gets top billing on the story I&#8217;m working on about the current&nbsp;<A href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/sj\/2004-Candidates\">Democratic Candidates<\/A>.&nbsp; If you know of any <STRONG>similar overviews<\/STRONG>, or have candidates (or almost-candidates) you&#8217;d like me to include, let me know! <\/P><br \/>\n<P>I also want very much to find such an overview for CA-recall candidates.&nbsp; So send those links my way.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kucinich is my hero this weekend.&nbsp; I just finished reading his guest posts on Larry Lessig&#8217;s blog (scroll down in the August archives&nbsp;to see them), and they&#8217;re damn good.&nbsp; He writes at length and from the heart, takes on difficult issues that commenters raise, and seems to be devising his answers on the spot.&nbsp; In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":135,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[210],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chain-gang"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7iVvB-76","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/135"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}