Diana Barahona writes that "Dennis Kucinich, John Edwards, and Ralph Nader" "were disappeared from the 2008 presidential race as quickly and definitively as any Soviet leader who fell into disfavor with Stalin" I am puzzled by the egregious comparison, of the likely result of Stalin's disfavor (although one can imagine those who truly do suffer under currently reigning psychopaths, wishing to exchange their fate for exile and hard labor, even for execution), with such official persecutions as Ralph Nader has endured, let alone with the compliant comfort of Kucininch* or of Edwards. *Kucinich "disappeared" himself from the '04 race at that year's Dem. party convention, -- where an overwhelming majority of the delegates arrived, pledged to nominate a peace candidate. Rather than put himself forward as that candidate, or fight for a peace platform (or even a peace plank), Kucinich withdrew his name from consideration in favor of Kerry.