Too real for public office

From Charles Bowden's profile of Dennis Kucinich in the November/December issue of Mother Jones:

No one who is not a Christian; who is black or brown; who is not a man; who is openly homosexual; who opposes NAFTA and the WTO; who is poor; who opposes war or wants to cut the Pentagon budget; who is short or grossly fat; who wants to increase the budget for social services; who endorses total gun control; who likes to drink, has committed adultery, or smokes dope and admits it; who has sought out psychiatric care.

No one can be elected president who has been battered enough by life to be qualified to be president.