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In reply to the discussion: Candidate Barack Obama pledged to raise the minimum wage to $9.50/hour by 2011. [View all]Tanuki
(14,916 posts)Is there nothing new under the sun?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eric-zuesse/ralph-nader-was-indispens_b_4235065.html
..."Karl Rove and the Republican Party knew this, and so they nurtured and crucially assisted Nader's campaigns, both in 2000 and in 2004. On 27 October 2000, the AP's Laura Meckler headlined "GOP Group To Air Pro-Nader TV Ads." She opened: "Hoping to boost Ralph Nader in states where he is threatening to hurt Al Gore, a Republican group is launching TV ads featuring Nader attacking the vice president [Mr. Gore]. ... 'Al Gore is suffering from election year delusion if he thinks his record on the environment is anything to be proud of,' Nader says [in the commercial]. An announcer interjects: 'What's Al Gore's real record?' Nader says: 'Eight years of principles betrayed and promises broken.'"