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Come on, no insults, pls! Mike ain't nuts. (4.00 / 1)

Really, we all know Mike is really trying to accomplish things, totally unlike Nader, who simply loves to be a spoilsport without getting anything done!

Let it be said by our children's children that when we were tested, we refused to let this journey end, that we did not turn back, nor did we falter

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by: Gray @ Tue Jun 16, 2009 at 09:53:13 AM CDT

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It was compliment (4.00 / 4)

Say what you will about Nader's personal qualities and political strategy, on substance he's long had an annoying knack for being right.  

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by: david mizner @ Tue Jun 16, 2009 at 09:58:53 AM CDT

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Disgraceful (4.00 / 2)

I speak as someone whose life and that of my three year old son was likely saved by Nader's auto safety accomplishments last month-about which I published a short diary here.

http://www.openleft.com/diary/...

Suffice to say that had Nader not made this one of his numerous objectives, the auto industry would still be marketing demonstrably unsafe products and many tens of thousands (that is not an exaggeration) of men, women and children would not be living and breathing.

Also, suffice to say that if you (or I) spend the rest of our lives working all day and all night with unshaking resolve and passionate intensity we will be lucky if we accomplish a tiny fraction of what Nader achieves in a year.

This is scurrilous and ignorant and should be retracted immediately.  

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by: John Halle @ Tue Jun 16, 2009 at 10:12:56 AM CDT

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We're talking about politics here, not about consumer safety (0.00 / 0)

Sry for the misunderstanding. I very much appreciate Nader's early work, of course. His determination on making cars more secure really saved countless lifes. No doubt about that.

However, when he went into politics, he didn't accomplish anything anymore, and his running in 2000 undoubtedly took away some very much needed votes from Al Gore. If this did or didn't turn the election will always be a matter of discussion. So, sry, not to deminish the other qualities of your hero, but I can only see his totally useless running for president as a vain act of self-aggrandizing. If he would have seriously wanted to accomplish something in politics, he should have run for Senator or Representative instead, where he may have had a chance. A fierce advocate of consumer safety in Congress certainly would have been a positive influence. However, he decided instead to not achieve anything anymore, but to simply become the poster guy for the politcally disenfrachised. And imho that's nuts. Just my personal opinion, of course. Sry.

Let it be said by our children's children that when we were tested, we refused to let this journey end, that we did not turn back, nor did we falter

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by: Gray @ Tue Jun 16, 2009 at 11:50:46 AM CDT

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Still a compliment.... n.t (4.00 / 1)

They're asking for another four years -- in a just world, they'd get 10 to 20. ~~ Dennis Kucinich  

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by: dkmich @ Tue Jun 16, 2009 at 12:18:19 PM CDT

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