Americans should be thankful for Ralph Nader. He helped found the EPA and OSHA, among many other governmental and non-profit organizations. He has been an advocate for consumer rights and safety, human rights, the environment, and democracy. He has been a critic of large corporations and corporate greed. The editors at the Morning Call made the decision to run a very disrespectful bashing of Nader and his latest documentary. This review was written by a Tribune writer. It appeared in Saturday's entertainment section.
http://www.mcall.com/entertainment/all-celebritypolitics0105.6214207jan05,0,6736481.story
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Ralph Nader should be added to Mount Rushmore.
As I understand the logicv of that goofy Tribune hack, a man's measure is determined by how well a movie about him does at the box office, and not by the millions of lives that Ralph Nader actually saved.
I'm slow on the uptake and just see your blog for the first time today! I'm so happy to see you've joined the fray, your comments are always a great addition to the dialogues!
To Bernie's point, the new-ish documentary about Ralph Nader, "An Unreasonable Man," is easily as compelling as is Al Gore's documentary, "An Inconvenient Truth," in my opinion **** 4-Stars.
Have a watch of it. I also think the dems are goofy to (still) blame Nader for their losing the last 2 presidential elections. Ralph Nader has every right to run whenever he wants, he's qualified to be president, he'd likely make a terrific president, and if the dems couldn't differentiate themselves enough to garner a majority in '00 and '04, they only have themselves to blame and I'm a democrat.
LOLV,
Thanks, it's great to see you here!
When Ralph Nader ran last time; he was a big disappointment, to independents in Pa. I know, I made several contacts to his office both in Washington and in Pa to get a cooperative effort going; so independents could make their best case for saving the Nation!
Ralph Nader stiff armed us all the way!
Dottie, if I'd read a defense of Ralph Nader a year or even a few months ago, my response would be something like:
In spite of all the lives he helped save by the things he accomplished in the 20th century, Ralph Nader got the 21st off to a miserable start by helping to usher in eight years of the Bush nightmare, and that may be the unfortunate legacy for which he'll be remembered most. I've heard the argument that "the Dems should have won anyway", but I don't think that would bring much solace to the families of the soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan, and it's a pretty pathetic justification for what many believe to have been an exercise in egotism on Nader's part. And I don't think he would have made a "terrific" president either.
In the last few months, though, I've gotten to thinking that if Gore had won, he'd probably be stuck with a Republican congress for his entire presidency, and maybe wouldn't have been able to institute the changes that he and we would have liked. Maybe it took the unspeakable horror of the Bush presidency and his Republican rubber-stamp congress to make people come to their senses at last ... or at least 51% of them. So maybe Ralph did us a favor after all, but it's very long in coming, and comes with an unimaginably high cost.
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