skippy the bush kangaroo: kucinich drops out, no one cares; thompson drops out, no one notices

Thursday, January 24, 2008

kucinich drops out, no one cares; thompson drops out, no one notices

dennis "the menace" kucinich ends his bid for the presidency. asspress:

in an interview with cleveland's plain dealer, the six-term house member said he was quitting the race and would make a formal announcement on friday.

"i will be announcing that i'm transitioning out of the presidential campaign," kucinich said. "i'm making that announcement tomorrow about a new direction."

kucinich has received little support in his presidential bid; he got 1 percent of the vote in the new hampshire primary and was shut out in the iowa caucuses. he did have a devoted following.

ok, so maybe somebody did care, but certainly not more than 1%. and to give dennis his props, that's way more than even knew that fred thompson also dropped out. washpost:

former senator fred thompson (tenn.) bowed to the obvious moments ago, dropping out of the 2008 presidential race in a tersely-worded statement.

"today i have withdrawn my candidacy for president of the united states," read the statement. "i hope that my country and my party have benefited from our having made this effort. jeri and i will always be grateful for the encouragement and friendship of so many wonderful people."

that narrows the political field to now only 5,342 candidates.

Labels: fred thompson, kucinich, prez campaign