I thought he handled it pretty well, making a joke of it. I asked Steve Cobble about it and he said they'd expected it, and were worried that Russert would ask all the candidates, "If you believe in UFOs, raise your hand."
Expecting to have to face SOME question, the plan was for Kucinich to make a joke out of it, hence his reference to moving his office to Roswell, NM and Exeter New Hampshire. Apparently, Cobble explained, some UFO sightings in Exeter were the inspiration for scenes in Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Not a bad idea, giving New Hampshire special attention. It's a key state for Kucinich, where he's hoping for
Kucinich Moving Impeachment Forward
I pointed out that Kucinich mentioned impeachment three times. Cobble told me that Kucinich intends to introduce a "privleged resolution, within the month. Actually, the house will quickly move to table the resolution. That will take a vote. Cobble says the vote to table will actually be a way of gauging where house members stand.
By time I finished speaking with Cobble it was well past midnight. I took one more look in the filing room. Candy Crowley was still there, working away, burning the midnight oil, with about 30 or 40 other media folk. I introduced myself to her, saying that we'd met back in 2004, in the press tent following the 2004 rally by John Kerry, just a few blocks away, at the University of Pennsylvania. I told her, since then, OpEdNews had grown from under 100,000 readers a month to close to half a million.
Speaking of energy, by then, it was time for me to start the one hour drive home. It was a good day.
Oh. I didn't comment on the debate, outside of Kucinich. That's been done by others on the site.
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