I would be quite content if Obama just steals Nader's platform the way Hillary stole Edwards' health care plan. Obama himself admits that Nader reached out to him and that Nader got stiff-armed for his trouble - even though the worst he has to say about Obama is that the latter censors his better thoughts and nature.

I suspect Nader is underestimating the personal work that needs to be done before Obama develops the audacity to take full advantage of the landslide election that the MSM and his corporate backers are preparing for him.

In any one of his last fifty years, Nader has done more for this country than either of the two front runners in their entire lifetimes. If Nader can get Obama to speak to the over fifty important issues he is trying to pass over in silence, Nader will have served his purpose.

Posted at February 25, 2008 3:50 AM in response to Nader Who Doesn't Deserve Attention

The argument ad hominem against Nader doth protest too much. In any one of his last fifty years he has accomplished more for this country than either of the Dem. front runners in their entire lifetimes to date.

The Dem. campaigns in 2000 and 2004 were slovenly run so all this anti-Nader projection has become the conventional wisdom by way of misdirection. The real culprit in Democratic defeats is corporate control of the two major parties. In every election, the most complicit candidate (from either party) wins.

The MSN is preparing the country for an Obama landslide because the Republicans are self-destructing and can't deliver. It will be an opportunity to clean house but nobody on this list or anywhere else knows what Obama will do with it except his corporate backers. I hope he disappoints them.

Posted at February 25, 2008 2:40 AM in response to Obama on Nader