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I’ve come to the conclusion that I’m going to have to put the PD’s Sabrina Eaton on the payroll (if you’re reading this Sabrina, call me and I’ll be happy to review the Wendell Robinson dot Com employee compensation program with you) because she’s doing a fine job keeping tabs on our beloved Conman Kucinich.

From today’s Openers:

Kucinich tops Letterman’s list

Posted by Sabrina Eaton May 01, 2007 12:54PM

Rep. Dennis Kucinich’s underdog presidential campaign took a hit from David Letterman last night, on a segment of the show titled: “The Top Ten Signs Your Newspaper is in Trouble.”

According to Letterman, the #1 sign of a newspaper in trouble is: “You endorsed Dennis Kucinich.” Hmmm — didn’t The Plain Dealer endorse Kucinich last year? Well, yes, but it was for his reelection to Congress. We assume (and hope) Letterman was referring to Kucinich’s presidential campaign.

Kucinich got better treatment during a Friday night interview with comedian Bill Maher, who kicked off his conversation with Kucinich by noting the Democratic congressman from Cleveland got “a pretty big ovation for a guy who’s not supposed to really be in the race.”

Kucinich replied that he’s the “mainstream candidate right now,” because of his steadfast opposition to the Iraq war. His support for marijuana legalization also won loud audience cheers.

Kucinich visited Maher’s show while he was in California to deliver a speech at a state Democratic convention in San Diego. In it, he promised his presidency would include a new version of FDR’s federal “Works Progress Administration,” which built infrastructure throughout the United States, as well as a “Works Green Administration,” which would develop new solar and wind technology.

“California will have a tremendous economic boom in creating those new jobs and we’re just on the threshold of it,” Kucinich said, without explaining how either program would be funded.

Kucinich, who was anti-abortion before his 2004 run for the White House, also expressed alarm that the Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion, Roe v. Wade, has been “under attack.”

“America is waiting for a president who is a healer,” he said.

Kucinich also used his trip to San Diego to launch a new campaign program on YouTube, where he urges his campaign supporters to submit videos of their own that discuss what’s right with America. A few of his submissions from the convention can be seen here, where a male supporter reminisces about Jimmy Carter’s presidency, and here, where a lady claims that before volunteering for Kucinich, the highlight of her life was being gonged on “The Gong Show.”