Friday, March 14, 2008

Ralph Nader, Please Do Run

Amy Goodman interviewed Ralph Nader, on Democracy Now, at Link-TV on Monday, February 25th, as a third/green party presidential candidate for November 2008 elections. I will enjoy Ralph to be a spoiler, like he did cost presidency to Al Gore in 2000, as did Ross Perrot to George Bush in 1992. Hence, Ralph must run. Ralph can not win, but if he did, he would not be a bit different than any other US president. This can be said for
Dennis Kucinich too, who has been my favorite. But Ralph will be able to give some heartache, as well as plenty of stress to both democratic and republican presidential candidates, by just being in the race. He will speak, may not participate in debates, and, will express his ideas and programs, our country needs, which no one else will ever do.
Every republican candidate who proclaim that they will run the country different than George Bush, and every democratic candidate who say they are different than republicans and especially Bush, will do exactly the same George bush is doing, and/or Bill Clinton did. Once they win election, they become American President, busy fomenting and starting wars in different parts of the world, to sell weapons to both sides of the warring factions, and promote our crony capitalism, helping corporate America, which brought them to power. This will be followed by designing dictatorial regimes, supporting dictators, all over the world, by paying them huge amounts of money from public coffers, and inviting those dictators to the US Congress, and the UNO to preach us on peace and democracy, since these dictators are useful in controlling their masses, set up factories to produce cheap goods for our consumption, mostly by child labor, and keep us affluent.
Then they help get some illegal aliens into our country, to mow our lawns, be our maids, build our homes, do all sorts of dirty work, so that we have time to play (and watch)
golf and other sports, so religiously. He/she will try to topple democratically elected governments, and keep our armed forces in those lands, for hundreds of years, to promote our multinationals sell stuff to the poor masses, and bring us cheap oil, so that we can continue driving our SUVs. We will thus be free to set up discussion groups on human dignity, justice, world peace, and helping the hungry, the sick and the poor ; and practice things that destroy the environment and the world. Be it Ralph, Hillary, Obama, McCain, Huckabee, or someone else, we will never change, continue to be Americans, and will always have a President to help us achieve our goals. If this happens to change in January 2009, I strongly pray/wish it did, and I am proved wrong, we all, in the USA, will be much happier, may be less richer. Doesn’t this speak also, for merging the two parties into one, as they are one and the same, abandon the general elections, and get things decided by the party hierarchy and the local caucuses, saving huge sums of money and sparing the public, so much of hoopla and grief ? It makes us proud to live in a country,
that has no parallel in the modern world, USA is the best place in the world, no doubt; but some of the shameful things we sometimes indulge in, both inside our borders, and out in foreign lands, make me really sad.

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