ISP: UFOs & The White House
Video: Presidential contender Dennis Kucinich has been the comic relief at several of the Democratic debates, always quick with a well-scripted retort or clever pun. But at Tuesday's debate, it seemed the crowd was laughing at him, not with him.
NBC moderator Tim Russert asked him, "Did you see a UFO?" He was referring to an incident several years ago at the home of actress Shirley MacLaine.
His response, "Yes I did."
He's at 1% support in the latest Gallup poll, so it's not likely that his honesty can do much damage.
But consider this. If he were to beat the odds and actually win, he would not be the first Commander in Chief to claim a close encounter of the third kind.
President Jimmy Carter said he saw a UFO back in 1969. He pledged during his 1976 campaign to make every piece of information this country has about UFO sightings available to the public. That never happened.
In a speech back in 1985, Ronald Reagan told Russia's President Gorbachev that they would have to put aside their differences "if suddenly there was a threat to this world from some other species from another planet outside in the universe."
Even Bill Clinton has expressed an interest in UFOs.
Check out the website PresidentialUFO.com for information about the views U.S. President have had about life on other planets.