Nadar: Dems self deception re: Hillary

"Dear Friend,

She sat on the board of Wal-Mart for six years.

She is Rupert Murdoch’s new political buddy and beneficiary of his fund-raising draw.

She voted for Bush’s illegal, immoral, and fabricated war in Iraq.

And she supports NAFTA and GATT-WTO.

She does not challenge the bloated, corruption-ridden, redundant military budget.

She does not challenge hundreds of billions of dollars in corporate welfare - subsidies, giveaways, bailouts...

She does next to nothing against the corporate crime wave sweeping through the inner cities of New York state and around the country - the poor pay more and are defrauded more...

And if the vote were held today, Senator Hillary Clinton would be the Democratic nominee for President in 2008.

And even the most progressive of Democrats would support Clinton in her campaign for the White House.

The philosophers have a word for this – it’s called self-deception.

These Democrats are deceiving themselves into believing that they can support Clinton for President and live with themselves as conscientious human beings.

They cannot.

Self-deception is a major problem affecting conflicts throughout the world – in families, corporations, politicians, and in war zones.

Self deception arises when we deny our own humanity and the humanity of others.

Actions that contradict our own human standards.

And then we seek all kinds of ways to justify these contradictions...

This happened in 2004.

And it is destined to happen again in 2008.

The only way out is for the country to understand that it is in a box of collective self-deception.

And then to get out of the box.

And there is a way out.

See others as human beings.

Not as objects or subjects.

Once we do this, our humanity will not allow us to support pro-war, corporate candidates like Senators Clinton and Joseph Lieberman..."

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http://www.votenader.org/contribute/index.php?cid=100

:eyes:

Ralph Nader is a foolish old man, a spoiler who enables the GOP and takes money from their fatcats.

Fuck him.

Remove Clinton's name if that makes it less offensive. The principle is still the same...and he's right.

Just pisses me off that this idiot had to be the one to say it.

He'd probably tell us the sky is green if that is what he thought people wanted to hear. He'll do anything, so long as he can have a camera pointed at him and play on the national stage.

It's all about RALPH. It's not about the country. His hubris is a tumor on the nation. He needs to go home and shut up.

n/t

....be running again. How much are the neocon/fundies going to give Nader this time around?

Keeping that fool in the race on makes things worse for Dems.
Good grief...how many bad apples are in this damned basket?!?!?

However, I'm a bit concerned about the Hillary hate festival.

I sincerely hope Al Gore challenges her in a Clash of the Titans and emerges victorious, but what happens if she does win the Democratic nod?

Participating in her annihilation in retrospect will seem like a really bad idea and it should for others unless they plan to bolt and vote third party.

Run, Al. Just run.

Feel free to raise money for third party candidates on someone else's website.