Now here's another way that Dennis J. Kucinich stands out.

If the former boy mayor of Cleveland is elected next year, we don't just get a staunchly anti-war congressman as president. We get the first first lady in American history to arrive at the White House with a pierced tongue.

Probably, no one should mention this to Laura Bush. She'd be falling face down in the Rose Garden canapes at the thought. But for a 30-year-old hipster Brit like Elizabeth Kucinich, a full head taller than her height-challenged man, a little tongue stud is hardly worth a mention.

But you have to admit her 61-year-old husband has made the ultimate sacrifice for the youth vote. He married it.

- Ellis Henican, Newsday (New York)