This NSA spying would not have happened under a Ralph Nader Administration

[appal_jack]

19. Really? The man who picked LIEberman as his VP?

Really, pnwmom? The man who picked LIEberman as his VP would not have pursued such power?

Don't get me wrong: I think that Gore-the-citizen has been a reasonably cogent environmental voice and a decent defender of true American values. But Gore-the-politician has been anything but. He may have written "Earth In the Balance," before getting the #2 spot in the White House, but after 1992, we got NAFTA and the Salvage Logging Rider under Clinton/Gore: two terrible environmental policies that haunt us still. And how much did he do to stop the PATRIOT Act when it really mattered? Not that he was in office then, but still, he could have done much, much more.

If you have positive proof that Gore would not have sold us out to the spooks and monied interests were he in the White House, I'd like to see it. But what I'd REALLY like to see is our current Dem President (his name is Obama, remember Obama?) oppose excessive state secrecy, whistleblower crackdowns, and other unconstitutional power grabs.

Nader's record (it is spelled "Nader:" not "Nadar" or "Radar" or "Nadir" or "Gonad" for that matter), while certainly not spotless in the field of electoral politics, is much more consistently principled than Gore's or Obama's.

And, btw, a big hello to Retrolounge!



-app