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Thread #73285 Message #1270123
Posted By: GUEST
12-Sep-04 - 02:03 PM
Thread Name: BS: Another Political Thread
Subject: RE: BS: Another Political Thread
I disagree with your assessment of Nader as president Ebbie, though I agree with your assessment of the agenda he is promoting.
You see, everyone keeps saying that Nader is too inflexible to be president, or couldn't get anything done in a Democrat or Republican controlled Congress...
But Nader has worked with those very same people for decades, and accomplished more than all of the Democrats and Republicans combined in the past 30 years. He has more than proven he is capable of accomplishing important, meaningful changes in the status quo by sticking to his principles, and never giving up. That is the epitome of the kind of leadership we need so desperately in the US and the world right now.
Nader outlived his usefulness? Hell, he and the example he has set will live for generations beyond ours. It is us, we the people, whom history will chastise for failing to see the greatest leader among us at the time when we needed that leadership most.
If I were you Ebbie, I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss the man who has shown he has more than nine political lives. He is perpetually pronounced dead and irrelevant by the liberals, because they look so pathetic by comparison, not because the man has lost his teeth (which he hasn't) or his passion for the good fight.
Nader won't be out of the political picture anytime soon, unless extremely poor health or death puts him out of it. There is no sign of him being even remotely close to that stage of his life yet.
Nader is in the October phase of his life, not the New Year's Eve about to pass away phase.