Funny how you just run into people in coffee shops.
We have learned that Ralph Nader will be in Louisville next Friday, September 19 for a public event at the University of Louisville.
Friday 09/19
6:00 P.M. Press Conference
Floyd Theater at 6:30 P.M.
Nader, who is on the ballot in 45 states, should be an interesting man to catch up with. His campaign staff tells us this is their first stop in Kentucky and it could turn into a long-term presence in the state.
We’ll bring you more information as we have it.
Stay tuned.
UPDATE: The event in Louisville will highlight the fact that this year’s presidential debates aren’t open to all candidates, thanks to the Commission on Presidential Debates created in 1987. (Walter Cronkite called this an “unconscionable fraud” because the CPD format “defies meaningful discourse.”)
We agree with Nader: open the debates.
15 responses so far ↓
1 The Real // Sep 12, 2008 at 11:13 pm
Whoop-dee-doo! How many other unprovoked wars will the Republicans start because of Nader’s electoral deliverance to them? What a narcissistic bastard!
2 Bushism // Sep 12, 2008 at 11:22 pm
I for one will be voting for Nader. I was so glad when I found out he will be on Kentucky’s ballot. I creied all day. It is rare to find a man of such integrity as Ralph Nader. He is a true believer in the progressive movement. And ever since Obama has been shifting his view to the conservative side with repsect to Iraq, the Bush tax cut, and making rude names about Plain (who I don’t like, but come on…). Nader is the one. The only way I wold have voted for Obama is if he picked Hillary, who actually won the popular vote in the primaries.
3 Edwin Dale Clemons // Sep 13, 2008 at 2:27 am
Nader is, no doubt, a spoiler in any race he has attempted. But the achelies heal of our American Politics is the economically entreanced two party system. Wheter he would make a good president or not (and I don’t think he would), he is right in that there needs to be a system where ‘other views’ can be debated. For that he deserves to be paid attention to.
4 James R. // Sep 13, 2008 at 9:27 am
Nader is a joke. When in 2000, he said there was no difference between the Democratic Party and the Republican Party, he lost all credibility to me.
Like it or not there is a difference between the parties. Nader has becoem an egotisical laughing joke.
5 Davi // Sep 13, 2008 at 9:48 am
Other than being self-serving enough to deliver the election to Bush/Cheney’s war machine causing hundreds of thousands to be injured, displaced or die and our whole country to be at bankruptcy’s door, Nadar has done good work.
All his good work will never however, exonerate his staying in the race at the expense of the country’s demise.
His right to run, his right to free speech or whatever should never overrule common sense or stepping aside to avert imminent danger, which Bush/Cheney were and are.
I absolutely can’t imagine what good he could be up to now.
6 Taylor // Sep 13, 2008 at 12:46 pm
first of all, Nader didn’t lose the election for Gore in 2000 – so stop acting like it was his fault. if you want to single anyone out, single out the Supreme Court or Gore, himself. Nader does have a right to be on the ballot, just like anyone else, and he has a right to the votes people cast for him. he didn’t throw the election to Bush, regardless.
Ralph Nader is definitively one of the most brilliant Americans in recent political/social history. but I’m of the opinion that he would be better suited fighting this fights in some other arena where he could be more effective – running for president every four years, and gearing up to run again in the three years in between, means that you aren’t really doing a whole lot of work to make the world a better place. if he focused on consumer rights and not getting
7 Bushism // Sep 13, 2008 at 1:17 pm
Nader is a true voice of change., The Democrats and Reptiles are, while not exactly the same, are close enough to cause a vote to Nader. Let;s face it guys, the two parties are the pawns of corporate America. Does anyone really believe that Democrats are going to change anything? They didn;t stop the war like Pelosi said she would in 2006. Just hot air of a different nature but still all the same. NADER IN 2008!!!
8 Terri // Sep 13, 2008 at 3:24 pm
Nader, the dude of major integrity that basically called Obama “Uncle Tom”?
Yeah. I won’t be voting for that guy.
9 Terri // Sep 13, 2008 at 3:26 pm
P.S. I don’t agree with the notion that Nader won the election for Bush. That’s bullshit. You either offer up better, more progressive democrats, or your base goes third party. If you can’t differentiate yourself well enough to earn a vote (my vote is mine), tough shit.
10 The Real // Sep 13, 2008 at 3:53 pm
Terri-
If you didn’t consider Al Gore a progressive Democrat, you simply weren’t paying attention.
11 Johnny Masters // Sep 13, 2008 at 4:45 pm
Al Gore, a Progressive Democrat? Ha! Joe Lieberman was his running mate. Obama points out that Nader didn’t think there was a difference between the corporate duopoly, Gore and Bush. But had Gore been in office on 9-11, Leiberman would have defended Israel, and gone after it’s biggest threat, Iraq. The same thing would have happened.
12 Bushism // Sep 13, 2008 at 4:47 pm
Nader is the only person who will end the war in Iraq.
Nader is the only person who will shut down corporate America.
Nader is da man!!!!!
13 SC // Sep 14, 2008 at 7:55 am
Nader will not get elected, so it is irrelevant whether he is “da man” or not. But hopefully this year Ron Paul will balance him out.
14 Nader McKinney // Sep 14, 2008 at 5:55 pm
Dr Ron & Ralph
“The two parties should be
almost identical, so that
the American people can
‘throw the rascals out’
at any election without
leading to any profound or
extensive shifts in policy.”
- Carol Quigley
Cynthia Mike Dennis Jesse Ross Jimmy
And the men* who hold high places
Must be the ones who start
To mold a new reality
Closer to the heart
15 droopy // Sep 18, 2008 at 10:13 am
I hate to break it to you whiners, but there were FAR more registered Democrats that voted for Bush in 2000 than who voted for Nader.
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