He's a long shot, but you got to love his tenacity...and here's hoping that he can help shape the national debate more beyond the sloganeering and wedge issues that the right loves to distract everyone with.

Monsters & Critics:

Democratic Rep. Dennis Kucinich, a passionate opponent of the Iraq war, has officially tossed his hat into the 2008 Presidential bid in the democratic party.

Kucinich announced his second bid for president on Tuesday, fueled by his frustration with the Democrat's anemic effort to put an end to the Iraq war.

"I am not going to stand by and watch thousands more of our brave, young men and women killed in Iraq," Kucinich said to applause from a crowd gathered at City Hall. "We Democrats were put back in power to bring some sanity back to our nation.