My name is Adam Sullivan. Until recently, I was just another citizen of New York's 8th Congressional District. Now I am running for Congress as a challenger to Jerrold Nadler for nomination in CD8 by the Democratic Party. And I need your help.

You may legitimately ask why I would challenge Congressman Nadler, a representative with a long liberal voting record. While this is true, Nadler has failed us all where it matters most.

The issue--Impeachment

Some months ago, I joined a pro-impeachment group with the intent of encouraging my congressman to co-sponsor the Articles of Impeachment introduced in the House by Dennis Kucinich of Ohio.

I have never helped to elect a president, not by voting anyway. Every vote I that I've cast has been for the loser. This is one reason why I don't gamble. This election will be no different, and that's why I won't cast a vote for president. I don't want to insure a McCain victory by voting for Obama or anyone else.

I have been doing a lot of thinking lately about impeachment. Many Democrats have claimed that impeachment could jeopardize their chances of putting a Democrat in office. If you look at recent history however, impeachment has been a very good thing for an opposition party. When Nixon was facing impeachment and resigned instead, the Democrats were able to get Carter elected. When Clinton was impeached the Republicans were able to elect Bush. That particular argument just won't wash. Impeachment has been a good thing for the political party that introduces it.

The Democrats have actually come out against impeachment because this president has such a short time left on his term. I wonder if they have ever considered this to be a reason to impeach. There are many reasons to expect that Bush and Cheney will decide to attack Iran before they leave office. The idea that they would be under indictment could be seen as a way to take the wind out of their sails. The article by Seymour Hersh in The New Yorker this week illustrates exactly how serious this administration takes the idea of regime change in Iran. It is a foregone conclusion that war with Iran is one of the top objectives that Bush & Co would like to accomplish before another president takes office. The idea that Bush would like to take on Iran if it appears that Obama will succeed hi has already been voiced by Bill Kristol and other Neo-Con cheerleaders. Why the Democrats still refuse to support Rep. Kucinich and his 35 Articles of Impeachment is a mystery.

If you are a registered Democrat, living in New York State and believe that Bush and Cheney deserve to be impeached, this may be your last, best chance to get action. Adam Sullivan is challenging Rep. Jerrold Nadler for the right to represent the people of New York's 8th Congressional District.

There is no "Left" and "Right" in the mainstream political scene today. There are nuances of liberal thought in the Obama campaign, but that is terribly overshadowed by the "thought police" in his campaign that don't want to give the McCain people any "talking points" that they can use against him. This particular episode in US history is very unfortunate. The fact that the Democrats must play the role of the quasi-belligerent and bellicose imperialists, in order to thwart the rhetoric of John McCain is a crime in itself. This type of behavior and rhetoric dooms the American people to a campaign that disallows the type of discourse that we so desperately need in this nation.

The articles I've written in the past few weeks have garnered e-mails from people that I never expected to hear from. My series on "American Complicity" have been published on many progressive sites and the response has been overwhelming. The outpouring of sentiment that this writer has received makes it very clear to me that the Mainstream Media has failed to provide the type of dialogue that the American people need to have with each other. Correspondence that I've received has not just come from Americans; I have received heartfelt letters from people in Israel, Mexico and Canada that decry what has happened in America in the last few decades. I wish I could write to all the people that have written me and tell them that the American people are indeed waking up from their long slumber and see what this nation is doing in the name of "The American People", but I can't. The dialogue between not right and left, but right and wrong, just isn't being discussed with the public at large.

There is in this country since 9/11 a disturbing and dangerous perception in this country that it's "us against them". The same incident has spawned fears for some that our own government has been in some way either complicit or actually involved in the attacks. This incident and the feelings that people have about the causes and involvement of whomever was responsible are rarely talked about in public. The War in Iraq is also a subject that many Americans don't speak about in mixed company, not wanting to lay their cards out on the table for their neighbors and co-workers to see. We discuss "polls" and articles we have read to gauge what others think. The only time we hear strong anti-war sentiment is on the internet or from speeches made at rallies and protests. The truths we hear and read stay in our minds and are very rarely brought out in public. The silence is deafening.

This is a slightly changed repost of an earlier diary.

Dennis Kucinich will be on Equal Time Radio this TODAY Friday the 13th from Noon to 1pm PDT / 3pm to 4pm EDT.  Now don't be afraid.   :)

He is fulfilling a promise he made months ago. He was supposed to be on the show but got tied up at a local event. So he promised to come on the show at a later date.

Well after Dennis Kucinich put forward his Articles of Impeachment, they figured NOW was a good time to have him on the show.

Equal Time Radio is a small local progressive talk show that is self funded. It is based in an area near Tacoma WA. Their show can be heard every Friday from Noon to 1pm PDT / 3pm to 4pm EDT and Dennis Kucinich will get the first half of the show.

These are the darkest days that I've ever seen in this country. There are so many Americans walking around completely clueless about what is really happening in this country. I've been wondering why the government has released so many formerly "Secret" files on how we overturned governments around the world and how we forced "regime changes" and how many people we were responsible for helping to massacre since the end of WWII. I think I've figured it out. It isn't that out government "wants to come clean", rather it wants to inure the American people to bloodshed for economic reasons.

This way Americans can say; "Well we've been doing it all along, what's the difference now?" So what if we've dropped white phosphorus and napalm on the city of Falluja? So what if we have dumped 350 tons of depleted uranium on Iraq, so what if Lancet reports that we have killed over one million two hundred thousand innocent Iraqi's? Isn't this the cost they must pay to be part of the American Empire? The hydrocarbon laws that demand 80% of the oil fields in Iraq should be part of their payment for "freeing" them. They just don't realize that we're just trying to bring them "democracy". We all know that Americans are the "good guys". Didn't we prove that in Vietnam when we incinerated the villages with napalm and poisoned their country with Agent Orange? Didn't we take care of our soldiers when they came back from Indochina with horrendous rashes, breathing problems and cancer? Just because it took us 25 years to do so, at least we did it, right?

I just heard from my "inside sources" that Dennis Kucinich will be on Equal Time Radio this Friday the 13th from Noon to 1pm PDT.  Now don't be afraid.   :)

He is fulfilling a promise he made months ago. He was supposed to be on the show but got tied up at a local event. So he promised to come on the show at a later date.

Well after Dennis Kucinich put forward his Articles of Impeachment, they figured NOW was a good time to have him on the show.

Equal Time Radio is a small local progressive talk show that is self funded. It is based in an area near Tacoma WA. Their show can be heard every Friday from Noon to 1pm PDT and Dennis Kucinich will get the first half of the show.

In the Tacoma, Olympia, Seattle, and Everett areas of WA state, just tune into 1180 AM this Friday (and every Friday) from Noon to 1pm.  They can also be heard live online by going to Equal Time Radio's website and clicking on the KLAY banner on the left. All shows are also archived and available on the Equal Time website. They usually get the show up online no later then Sunday but usually it will happen by the end of the day on Friday.

Equal Time Radio

KLAY 1180 AM is the home station for Equal Time Radio. Most shows are self funded and ETR is the ONLY Progressive/Liberal/Democratic talk radio show on KLAY.

Remember to support local progressive radio. Join Dennis Kucinich on Equal Time Radio, this Friday from Noon to 1pm PDT, talking about IMPEACHMENT!

For at least four years, there have been calls for the impeachment of both Bush and Cheney. Although it has rarely been polled, those polls that have been done find support for impeachment proceedings to be in the 40% to 50% range... very strong support for something that is almost never discussed on the media. The most recent numbers I found are from an Ipsos poll from last year.The poll interviewed 1,001 U.S. adults on October 6-9.

The poll found that 50% agreed with the statement:

"If President Bush did not tell the truth about his reasons for going to war with Iraq, Congress should consider holding him accountable by impeaching him."

44% disagreed, and 6% said they didn't know or declined to answer. The poll has a +/- 3.1% margin of error.

Among those who felt strongly either way, 39% strongly agreed, while 30% strongly disagreed.

This was before the recent release of documents proving that Bush absolutely did lie about his justifications for the war. So what are we afraid of?