Opinion: Dennis Kucinich’s online birthday party
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Democrat Dennis Kucinich celebrated his birthday this week with a ‘news item’ posted to the congressman’s website.
You don’t often see a politician’s birthday making the front page of a news site, but the users of Reddit voted the ‘story’ to their home page. He turned 63 Thursday.
The post Happy Birthday, Dennis Kucinich! inexplicably garnered 1,460 positive votes -- and 748 people who thought it was stupid.
The top-voted comment on the post read, ‘Happy birthday to the only Congressman with a spine.’
As if that weren’t ridiculous enough, Kucinich blew out the virtual candles in a follow-up post on his site today. The item succinctly read, ‘Thanks for the birthday wishes, Reddit!’
The circular love fest continues, as ‘Thanks, Reddit,’ Kuncinich pulls in 2,850 up-votes on Reddit -- and, of course, 878 people who think it’s really stupid.
-- Mark Milian
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