Nader in Florida: Remember Me?

What the ____? Is he running as an independent? The Green Party is running Cynthia McKinney.

If he's running as an independent - and I'm a Green party registered voter myself - I have to say that Nader is the most self-centered, stuck-in-the-past, impractical jackoff I've ever seen.

If he gave a ____ about the environment AND the country more than he did himself, he'd have pulled out of the race in 2000 and given the most environmentally prominent politician of our times a chance to pull us into alternative energy and environmental stewardship eight years ago.

I hope his skin rots off. Would be a fitting occurrence for a man who could have thrown his endorsement behind Gore in 2000 and done a great deal to help save the planet, but didn't because he insists on displaying HIS right to run, over and over, no matter what else is actually going on. Nader is all about Nader. I don't think the Green Party has a shot of ever being relevant until he stops being a part of it.

Nader could certainly redeem himself if he cost McCain the election.

Last I remember, Hillary Clinton and Barrack Obama foreclosed on our country's future by pledging away over a Trillion dollars to Wall Street Speculators. Last I remember, Bill Clinton was the guy who repealed the Glass Stiegal act, thus launching us into the oncoming Recession. Weren't the Democrats the folks who promised Farmer's they fight on their behalf, while instead they helped the banks sell off the family farm. Wasn't Bill Clinton the guy who promised a National Healthcare plan, but renounced that pledge once elected. Isn't he the guy who got hit with a sex scandal, the day after it was announced he traded nuclear launching plans to the Chinese in exchage for campaign contributions. Clinton, yeah, that guy who signed NAFTA, got us further involved in WTO, and sent American jobs overseas, calling it Free Trade, pitting the American worker against slave labor in facist countries. Bill Clinton...the guy who didn't invest in renewables for 8 years, and who didn't even pass legislation for vehicle fuel standards. Oh, and the Florida election...wasn't that where Jeb Bush, Katherine Harris, and other Republicans knocked folks off the ballot, rigged the vote, then the 5 politicians on the Supreme Court illegally annointed George IV King. We've been rewinding this movie for 25 years, and casting a new face in the White House doesn't seem to change the plot. RALPH NADER ON THE OTHER HAND HAS BEEN A CHAMPION FOR THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. He worked to establish the EPA, OSHA, Consumer Safety Laws, the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act, Freedom of Information Act, and many other organizations and legislation that YOU and other Americans have benefitted from. WHEN ARE YOU PEOPLE GOING TO WAKE UP? There is hardly any difference between the two war mongering, pension stealing, gas guzzling, corporately owned corrupt major parties. It's the Republicans and Democrats who have in a bipartisan fashion dismantled our Democracy.

In 1965 Ralph Nader asked a question that shocked America. In his book Unsafe at Any Speed he asked why thousands of Americans were being killed or injured in car accidents when the technology already existed to make our cars safer. The automobile industry resisted Nader's suggestions furiously, but public outcry forced government and industry to apply new safety standards, and to include devices like shoulder harnesses and air bags which have saved thousands from death or injury.

Ralph Nader didn't stop there. His concept of full-time citizenship led him to form groups such as Public Citizen which have exposed corporate and governmental negligence and corruption and won important new protections for Americans as citizens and consumers.

More than 30 years after he began his crusade for automobile safety, Ralph Nader continues his efforts to make government and business accountable to the people, and to make all Americans aware of their rights and of their own power to defend them.

Just some of the organizations Ralph Nader founded or helped start:
www.votenader.org
American Antitrust Institute
Appleseed Foundation
Arizona Center for Law in the Public Interest
Aviation Consumer Action Project
Buyers Up
Capitol Hill News Service
Center for Auto Safety
Center for Insurance Research
Center for Justice and Democracy
Center for Science in the Public Interest
Center for Study of Responsive Law
Center for Women Policy Studies
Citizen Action Group
Citizen Advocacy Center
Citizen Utility Boards
Citizen Works
Clean Water Action Project
Congress Project
Congress Watch
Connecticut Citizen Action Group
Corporate Accountability Research Group
Critical Mass Energy Project
Democracy Rising
Disability Rights Center
Equal Justice Foundation
Essential Information
FANS (Fight to Advance the Nation's Sports)
Foundation for Taxpayers and Consumer Rights
Freedom of Information Clearinghouse
Georgia Legal Watch
Global Trade Watch
Health Research Group
Litigation Group
Multinational Monitor
National Citizen's Coalition for Nursing Home Reform
National Coalition for Universities in the Public Interest
National Insurance Consumer Organization
Ohio Public Interest Action Group
Organization for Competitive Markets
Pension Rights Center
Princeton Project 55
PROD - truck safety
Public Citizen
Retired Professionals Action Group
Shafeek Nader Trust for the Community Interest
Student Public Interest Research Groups nationwide
Tax Reform Research Group
Telecommunications Research and Action Center
The Visitor's Center
Trial Lawyers for Public Justice

Ralph Nader doesn't take votes from anybody, any more than other candidates take votes from him.

Ralph Nader EARNS his votes, by stating what he believes.

It is offensive that Kerry and Gore tried to win votes rather than by earning their votes, but by SILENCING Nader.

In a democracy, points of view need to be heard. The Democrats and Republicans are responsible for the current mess we are in.

Therefore the public should be looking for alternatives from the politics and policies that got us into this mess. America is best served by abandoning the b.s. argument that we must vote for the lesser of two evils.

We are encouraged to settle. America deserves the best. America deserves candidates that are not beholden to special interests and don't have preserving the status quo as a top priority in mind.
That is why I am voting for Ralph Nader.

ONLY 5 COMMENTS ON NADER THAT SHOULD TELL YOU ALOT

Bill Clinton points to liberal Congressional Democrats' protection of Fannie and Freddie from scrutiny as a primary cause of the current economic meltdown.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsynspIqAoE

To prove Bill Clinton's point, this is a link to a C-SPAN video clip of the Congressional hearings at roughtly the time McCains attempt at S.190. to fix fannie and freddie.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MGT_cSi7Rs

"Video Unearthed Democrats in their own words Covering up the Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac Scam that caused our Economic Crisis"

The link below describes how some of those Democrats in Congress tried to use the original version of the bailout bill to divert money eventually recovered to groups like ACORN. See: Wall Street Journal

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122247015469280723.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

And here is Lou Dobbs reporting on ACORN corruption and ties to Obama, including Obama Campaign paying ACORN $800,000 for voter registration activities, and Obama representing them when he was a practicing attorney.

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/bestoftv/2008/10/09/ldt.tucker.acorn.under.fire.cnn

The Democrats' attempts to take monopoly over people's minds to keep the current status quo is pathetic. They cannot claim to be the party for the people. They enabled almost every thing they complain about.
The Democrats are responsible primarily for the mortgage crisis, since they were the ones promoting unust laws to banks to take bad loans, while taking millions from Fannie Mae, and blocking legislation to ensure correct accounting.
Also, they are not anti war at all, instead try to convince people to do "smart wars" now. People who want peace, who refuse to dumb down and believe Obama or McCain's lies that we're fighting for freedom and should increase the military, are lucky to have Nader as an option. McKinney is a worth option as well, but she has nowhere the popular support and organization that Nader and Gonzalez have.
In a real election, they beat McCain on conservative, small government values, and beat Obama on liberal, Democratic ones. Too bad the democrat and republican co-owned corporation, the commission on presidential debates, stops third parties who are on enough ballots to win from participating in the debate process. Only by dumbing down the options can these two pass as anything close to options. There are better options for president in anyone's circle than these two. They are both corrupt trying to stop change by spinning the status quo differently.

On October 10, the Alaska Legislative Council found Sarah Palin guilty of abusing power. Immediately Ms. Palin said "if you read the report you'll see that there was nothing unlawful or unethical about replacing a cabinet member." This quote by Palin is only 50% true. The Legislative Council report says that it was LEGAL for her to fire Commissioner Monegan, since as Governor she has the right to hire and fire her staff at will. The report also says that her firing of Commissioner Monegan was an UNETHICAL abuse of power.

Palin tells you half of the truth, and lies outright about the other half. You know the old saying: If you tell a lie, make sure it contains some truth so it will be believable.

From the report:

Palin tried to force the Commissioner to prosecute Trooper Wooten (her former brother in law) for illegally shooting a moose. The Commissioner explained to Palin that if they charged Wooten they would also have to bring charges against Palin's sister, who was present on the hunt, had the moose permit and illegally let her husband use it. They would also have to prosecute Palin's father, who cut up the moose and stored it in his freezer, sharing the meat with the Palin family. In other words, the Palins were OK with Wooten illegally shooting the moose when it happened. They participated in the hunt and kept the meat. But a year later when Wooten was divorcing Palin's sister, suddenly the Palins turned him in for illegally killing the moose.

The Palins turned Wooten in to the State Troopers disciplinary commission about a year and a half before she became Governor. The Troopers investigated Wooten, finding that some of Palin's allegations were true and some were false. The Troopers disciplined Wooten with a few days suspension. When Palin tried to get Monegan (the new Commissioner) to re-open the case once she was Governor, Monegan told her he couldn't do it. All the allegations had already been investigated and Palin had no new evidence. Trooper Wooten belongs to a union, and he can not be fired just because the Governor doesn't like him.

So, the Palins hired a private investigator to trail Wooten night and day, trying to catch him doing something wrong. The investigator takes photos of Wooten dropping his kids off at school, using his patrol car. The Plains file a complaint, saying it is illegal for him to ferry his kids in a patrol car. They try and get him fired for this, except it turns out that since Wooten was working a swing shift, his Commander had given him a waiver to bring his kids to school in the car. Wooten and Palin's sister have been divorced for 3 years, yet the Palins continue to persecute Wooten. Palin just can't forgive and get past this family drama.


I urge you to read the report yourself:

http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/i/msnbc/Components/Interactives/Politics/Election2008/branchflower_report_to_the_legislative_council.pdf

Agreed. Kerry, Gore, Obman, are all frauds. My girlfriend in Des Moines,Iowa, was a precinct captain for John Edwards. Of course, she is very dissapointed by his actions, she knows Obama stole Iowa, and his ACORN is going to steal more!