The Daily Beast: 'Representative Dennis Kucinich Disappointed by President Obama's Jobs Record'

Source:The Daily Beast talking to current U.S. Representative Dennis Kucinich (Democrat, Ohio) who was primaried out of his House seat by the Ohio Legislature, but still holds that seat until the next Congress is sworn in, in January.

"The former Ohio congressman, long known as an independent voice within the Democratic Party, told Beast TV that he wishes the president had done more to create jobs in America." 

From The Daily Beast

Other than our mutual hatred for the so-called War On Drugs and our belief in the right to privacy in America, I have almost nothing in common with Representative Dennis Kucinich. 

Senator Bernie Sanders (Democratic Socialist, Vermont) is the only self-described Socialist in the U.S. Congress. Self-described being the key here. There are plenty of Socialists in the Democratic Caucus in the U.S. House. Most of them are democratic oriented, but they all go by the label liberal or progressive. Representative Kucinich is one of those members who doesn't self-describe as socialist, but to be completely real here: he's to the left of Senator Sanders on foreign policy and national security and I'm sure other issues in Congress as well. 

My point here (and yes, I have a point) Dennis Kucinich is way to the left of me on so many issues, you would need Superman's supervision to find anything that we have in common with each other politically. But what I've always liked and respected about him, is his ability to throw out the garbage (to keep it clean) and tell people what he thinks. Even when he's the only person who actually believes and agrees with anything that he's saying. Which has happened a lot to him in his political career, being a Far-Left Democrat from Cleveland, Ohio. Not exactly Hippieville or some left-wing utopia.