A soft-spoken Sean Penn endorsed Hugo Chavez, er, Dennis Kucinich yesterday in a speech at San Francisco State University. Ignore the media’s depiction of Kucinich as not electable, says Penn, and vote for the “most deserving and noble of candidates.”

Sound Bite: “If those of us who truly believe in the Constitution of the United States of America — all of us — vote for Dennis Kucinich, he’ll be elected. Could we call him electable then?