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Dennis Kucinich and the UFOs

Today's Wall Street Journal has an article that provides details on presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich's UFO sighting. In a Democratic candidates' debate in October, Rep. Kucinich acknowledged having seen a UFO, however he declined to provide details.

The now Rupert Murdoch led Wall Street Journal included an interview with Paul Costanzo, an eye-witness who was with Kucinich that evening. At the time of the sighting, 25 years ago, Paul, Paul's girlfriend, and Dennis Kucinich, were staying at the residence of actress Shirley MacLaine in rural Washington State, in the shadow of Mount Rainier. Costanzo was MacLaine's assistant/personal trainer. The three witnesses saw some strange lights in the distance. They watched them through a telescope as they got closer, and they coalesced into three gray, triangular-shaped craft, each the size of a large van. They approached to about 200yards away, emitting a throbbing sound. They hovered for about a minute, then sped away.

Dennis Kucinich has been reluctant to talk about the sighting. I don't know whether he's afraid for voters to know that he saw a UFO or that he he once lived at Shirley MacLaine's house.

Personally, I'm glad for some quasi-political news other than bogus Iowa polls that don't agree with each other. I agree with many of Kucinich's policies. I agree that we should have single payer health coverage. I agree that every short, nerdy 60-year-old man should have a hot wife. I'm not really on board with the plan to build a full-scale model of Devil's Tower out of mashed potatoes, but I have to admit that Bush has had sillier ideas.