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Promising to be outspent 100 to one, Ralph Nader launched his 2008 presidential race yesterday as an independent. Check it out at www.votenader.org

Maybe the only honst candidate besides Ron Paul.
This seems to be his major differences. Interesting.

	Nader	Obama/Clinton	McCain
Adopt single payer national health insurance	On the table	Off the table	Off the table
Cut the huge, bloated, wasteful military budget	On the table	Off the table	Off the table
No to nuclear power, solar energy first	On the table	Off the table	Off the table
Aggressive crackdown on corporate crime and corporate welfare	On the table	Off the table	Off the table
Open up the Presidential debates	On the table	Off the table	Off the table
Adopt a carbon pollution tax	On the table	Off the table	Off the table
Reverse U.S. policy in the Middle East	On the table	Off the table	Off the table
Impeach Bush/Cheney	On the table	Off the table	Off the table
Repeal the Taft-Hartley anti-union law	On the table	Off the table	Off the table
Adopt a Wall Street securities speculation tax	On the table	Off the table	Off the table
Put an end to ballot access obstructionism	On the table	Off the table	Off the table
Work to end corporate personhood	On the table	Off the table	Off the table

Excellent article. One thing the Republicans have been right about for many years is to point out that the Democrats were (for the most part) wimps or closer to the truth sell outs to their same master. That's why I think they accuse dems of acting holier than thou, when they know that they are both on the same chow.

The masks may be different but hey look at the flag -- "Skull and Bones"-- the International Pirate Confederacy!

Hey what about an independent!!! Can't be controlled though! Oh my, too unpredictable.

Ralph and Matt are for real!

There are many more options than one may assume. Although much of the media will pretend that it is a two party race, Ralph Nader, is talking more sense than any of those puppets.Here's a speech he gave last week televised by Cspan that's available for downloading. He is the only candidate that is defending the constitution and demanding the impeachment of Cheney and Bush. He's talking real issues that need to be addressed. IMO this is the last chance for American Democracy.

Granted that Nader is bringing up what might seem as "unpleasant facts" to those who have invested in Big Brother as the only way to go (paranoia, police state, and war forever), he is offering an alternative that seems far more attractive. At least to me a world free from war, free from a police state, strife, and free from paranoia is a preferred starting point..

Sita

Namaste!

Who is them? Ralph Nader? Why not encourage Ralph?

BTW "them" (whomever they may be) just might not want you to vote.They just might want you to think you are helpless, powerless, and exploitable. Ever think of that?


Democracy is the last voice of community -- this one needs a lot of changing (IMO) not more passive reactions and non-creative fancies. Did you take a look at the Nader video? What do you think about it?.


Donny

Yep, well Ralph is not electable only if there were more people like you who believe he is not electable. Of course it also helps to have a media who does not even know that Ralph is running or national debates that do not include him. I think rather the truth is that the elite just don't want to give him a chance as he is the only candidate that is not sold out. I'd agree with Sita "why vote", if it wasn't for Ralph. I =know people don't want recognize the ten trillion dollafrfederal debt, the highest incarceration rate in the world, the lack of univefrsal health care, the destruction of social security (what security), the increasing wars of aggression, increasing domestic surveillance and police state, the rise in violent crime.... and we could go on for along time. It could be said to be unpleasant to some one who doesn't want to acknowledge it, but it is some thing that needs to be acknowledged in order to change these unpleasant things. Pretending that there are no problems or that neoliberal or neoconservative politics will solve the problem, is entirely not tenable.

I am betting the other way, thanks.If he's the best candidate then why would he not be electable. Voting for the best of the worse seems real dumb to me. It got us what we got which is a one party system called accurately demopublican.

As far as impeachment Cheny and Bush deserve that more than anything. Congress is doing nothing anyway or worse. Congresss has already given up the constitution. I say let them do their constitutional duty and fulfill their role, and impeach those criminals who deserve to be impeached. Most comnsfrtitutional lawyers say that they are definitely guilty of high crimes and misdemeanors. This congress has turned away in denial and corruptionj (if you have noticed). They also should be impeached. Jeeze

You know congress isn't doing its job anyway. They claim that they just don't have time to read the bill;s. Well I think that is called having a staff. C'mon they sound like Cheney/Bush -- duh "we didn't know". Worfks in some places, but not here.

You know getting the impeachment on the congressional record will at least look better for the US down the line when things fall apart. Now you can blame the congress and the American people for the oncoming collapse, but at least if impeachment was done, then Cheney/Bush could at least be held accountable. In either case they won't be around when the chicken come home to roost. I believe that it is the responsibility of congress to ENFORCE the constitution when the executive branch vilolates it. In fact that is what the constitution says. So why would you oppose the constitution? Yes that is a question since there exists very good evidence that the constitution has been violated.

Impeachment is not Ralph's only issue. As a matter of fact he has many issues and he has the intelligence to talk about it. If you still believe that there is a two party system in America, then you haven 't been paying attention. So my question put to you Pam is, did you watch the video link of Ralph in Philadeplhia? Do you know Nader is saying on the issues? It's a big WOW!