That is just the same old character assassination Mick, and you know it.

Show me a leader of Nader's stature that hasn't ruffled feathers, rubbed people the wrong way, occassionally taken a dictatorial approach, whatever. It comes with the territory, and you, better than most because you are an organizer, know it.

He isn't tilting at windmills. He is trying to force change to a moribund, bloated, plutocracy teetering on the brink of dictatorship.

You know how this works Mick. If Clinton or Obama wins, they lull the electorate into a sense of complacency with a Democratic Party status quo. I'd rather see McCain win, honestly. Nothing concentrates the focus more than having an easy to define nemesis. The nation needs deep, systemic change. The plutocracy has all the money, all the guns, and is building prisons at an alarming rate.

You tell me how it will go when they shut off our access to the internet, lock out all political parties but the two in their pockets, censor the news through corporate media channels sanctioned by the government, and start throwing people like me and you into dissenter's prison?

This is the road we are on, and we will arrive there by 2012, 2016 at the latest.

And no, I don't think I'm being the least bit alarmist. And I think Obama and Clinton are just as likely to put us in that place as McCain is.

The time for supporting Democratic presidential candidates is over for this year. We have an alternative that can force change, not instill false hope for it as a means of keeping everyone home on the couch in front of the corporate TV, instead of in the streets working for meaningful change in their neighborhoods, cities, states, and gasp! the nation.