Anti-Empire Report, January 13, 2008: “The Anti-Empire Report
Read this or George W. Bush will be president the rest of your life
January 13, 2008
by William Blum
http://www.killinghope.org

An Unreasonable Man

I recommend the new documentary about Ralph Nader, which was recently shown on PBS television, ‘An Unreasonable Man‘. Its primary focus is on Nader’s argument for having run in the 2000 and 2004 presidential elections despite the alleged harm done to the Democratic Party candidates. As I’ve written earlier: The choice facing people like myself was not Ralph Nader or Albert Gore or John Kerry. The choice facing us was Ralph Nader or not voting at all. If Nader had not been on the ballot, we would have stayed home. It’s that simple. The film shows a clip of a TV network newscast just after the 2000 election in which star news anchors Katie Couric and Tom Brokaw are discussing this very question, and much to my surprise they both come to this same conclusion — Nader did not cost the Democrats many votes at all. If he had not been on the ballot, the great bulk of his supporters would NOT have voted Democratic instead.

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