Ralph

Thursday June 26, 2008 - 12:21AM EDT

I love what Ralpha Nader has done over his career. Always fighting for the little guy and making the world a better place for all peoples. He most recent comments about Barrack Obama ring so very true although based on the headlines of most media outlets you think he was taking some kind of racial low-blow on him. But if you read the article and see what Nader says then you see that it isn't and what Nader is saying is true. First of Ralph Nader has supported the interested of minorities and done more for the interests of the poor and those stepped on by the more powerful than Obama has by a huge margin.  I'd vote for Nader over Obama any day of the week if elections were fair, but their not and somehow the loopholes in so called fairness rules make it so that whoever has the most money usually has the best chance. More precisely without money you can't compete. Which is why our two party system continues unchecked. Anyway, this is about Nader. He is saying that an african american presidential nominee should run on the platform of correcting poverty and fixing the problems that face minorities and poor in both urban and rural areas. This is the platform that Jesse Jackson tried to run on. He was unsuccesful but it wasn't neccessarily because his platform was uunpopular. Quite the contrary in fact.

Nader is saying that Obama is simply running with the same ideas that always dominate the democratic party. Can you say Nader is wrong on that point? I don't think so. Obama has talked about general change as a platform but specifics are hard to pinpoint. More precisely strong positions are hard to identify. There is certainly no focus on poverty and issues related to that. John Edwards I would say had stronger views on such issues. I suppose there is still time for Obama to bring these things up but I don't know if it will happen. But no candidate has ever run on platforms to assist the poor. I suppose the New Deal politics of FDR was the only time it was done. But nothing really since that.