For Kucinich, will the current presidential adventure be a “Field of Dreams” or his “field of hallucinations?” Excerpt – datelined Davenport -- from report in the Lorain (Ohio) Morning Journal: “U.S. Rep. Dennis Kucinich continued making a pitch for his field of political dreams throughout southeastern Iowa yesterday in his bid to capture the Democratic nomination for president of the United States in the 2004 election. Or will it wind up his field of hallucinations? In the late 1980s movie, ‘Field Of Dreams,’ an Iowa farmer heard a voice: ‘If you build it, they will come,’ referring to constructing a baseball diamond in a cornfield. If Kucinich builds a strong enough case to win the nomination over favorite Howard Dean, Vermont governor, will the Democrats, liberals and those looking for as change vote for him? ‘We're getting a good response here,’ Kucinich said yesterday on a break from the first of a three-day campaign stop in Iowa. ‘The people out here seem to like me, and they're listening. I plan to bring out all the issues that need to be talked about and the need for a change in this country's leadership.’ By tradition, the Iowa caucuses that kickoff in January 2004 are the beginning of the presidential campaign races, and often are crucial for gauging Democratic and presidential favorites. In fact, Scott County, where Kucinich spent most of his time making public appearances yesterday, made the difference for Democratic presidential candidate Al Gore to carry the state in the 2000 election…Kucinich is the longshot candidate with a meager war chest (about $1 million, according to members of his staff), and on late-night talk shows, he has sometimes replaced the city he hails from as the butt of jokes. Last week on ‘The Late Show with David Letterman,’ Letterman had a makeshift book of ‘Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.’ On the cover was a photo of Kucinich's face over one of the dwarfs. Letterman quipped, ‘He's the dopey looking one -- I wouldn't vote for him.’”
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