Ralph Nader spot (with my voiceover at the end.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02zpXmFEUaY
I’m voting for Nader. He’s on the ballet in 45 states, including California (write-in in the other five.) His site is here, if you want more info.
To those who say that Nader “is responsible for George W. Bush”, that Gore would have won and Nader siphoned Gore votes away, Nope. Bush’s cronies fudging (allegedly) the Florida ballot is why Gore lost.
Also, the other two third-parties in that election, Constitution Party and Libertarian Party, votes for those two parties combined “siphoned” more votes than the Green party.
I hate that third-parties are not taken seriously in America. Both prevaling parties, Dems and Repubs, were “third parties” when they started. Why settle for the least of two evils? (Obama, I don’t think he’s evil, but I hate his gun-control ideas. Nadar’s aren’t as bad.)
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Obama says “I am not in favor of concealed weapons,” and he wants to Ban the sale or transfer of all forms of semi-automatic weapons.
Obama says:
You go into some of these small towns in Pennsylvania, and like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years….And it’s not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion…
More info on Obama’s heavy-handed gun control here.
Nader quoted on gun control (more control than I’d like, but not nearly as bad as Obama)
Focus would be on gun safety, not hunters and sportsmen. Guns would be licensed by states, but do not need to be registered. Would institute no special lawsuit protection for gun makers. Would make background checks and child safety locks mandatory. Supports the Brady Law and would ban assault weapons.
Would make the government pay for voluntary trigger locks. Supports “Project Sentry,” including juvenile gun laws and school accountability. Would restrict lawsuits against gun makers. Would raise the legal age for guns to age 21. Would ban automatic weapons and high-capacity ammunition clips.
Supports the Brady Bill and thoughtful gun control, including trigger locks, licensing, & banning some guns. “Make sure the weapons are designed safely with trigger lock — Look at a weapon the way you look at a car. You’ve got to know how to handle it. You should be licensed.” From “Nader Q and A,” Rocky Mountain News, June 24, 2000
Would faithfully protect the Second Amendment, except for felons. “[A]dditional legislation is not the answer. The urban barbarism that has turned our streets into battlegrounds and our classrooms into killing fields will not be stopped by an assault on the Second Amendment right of American gun-owners to keep and bear arms.” From “Issues: Right to Keep & Bear Arms,” www.GoPatGo.org, June 5, 1999
September 28th, 2008 at 11:47 pm
Cool!
September 29th, 2008 at 6:20 am
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October 2nd, 2008 at 8:42 pm
Michael, If you’ve not read it already, something tells me you’d really enjoy Ralph Nader’s latest book, “The Seventeen Traditions.”
Just checked, it’s remaindered (WTF?) on Amazon currently for only $5.99:
http://www.amazon.com/Seventeen-Traditions-Ralph-Nader/dp/B0013L8BHO/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1223005244&sr=1-1
That’s 70% off. Think I might order some copies for friends.
Keep up the good fight, man. You’re an inspiration.
November 3rd, 2008 at 11:40 am
i couldn’t agree with y’all more! i don’t like McCain or Obama. my Spouse tells me by voting for an Independent, i will be giving my vote to Obama. What the f*ck does he know?!?! he only knows what his narrow-minded, right wing, conservative parents pumped into his brain as he grew up. i vote for who the hell *I* want to vote for…as my mama told me when she took me to vote at the age of 18, “Vote for the man, not the party.”
And i stick to that even now.
Rock on!
November 3rd, 2008 at 4:41 pm
When I was 18, and a liberal who didn’t know much about politics or the world, my momma told me “If you’re young and not a liberal, you have no heart. If you’re old and not conservative, you have no brain.”
I’m old now, know much more about the world, and I’m much more conservative. But I don’t wanna vote for McCain, especially since he has possible-president Palin attached to his tender hip.
I wonder when a libertarian or Libertarian candidate will actually have a chance in America - someone who is fiscally conservative, but doesn’t want to regulate our morals, and isn’t a pussy like most liberal candidates. (Most liberals also want to overregulate everything, like sometimes even smoking in our own homes!)
Barry Goldwater for president!
MWD
November 3rd, 2008 at 4:47 pm
People who say “by voting for an Independent, you’re throwing away your vote” are dupped by the system. They’re the same people who say that “By voting for a third-party, you’re throwing your vote away (and/or giving a vote to the lesser of two evils of the two main candidates). This attitude proof that many Americans are too stupid to vote. Third parties are the only hope for this country, because we shouldn’t have to “live with” the lesser of two idiots.
MWD