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Nader wins spot on California's presidential ballot

Ralph Nader, the former Green Party candidate and scourge of many Democrats who blame him for Al Gore's defeat in 2000, earned a place on the California ballot Saturday as the newly minted candidate of the Peace and Freedom Party. Nader won the party's presidential nomination over the spirited challenge of a socialist candidate, Gloria La Riva, in an eclectic gathering of the political left in a Sacramento hotel.

The crowd at the Peace and Freedom convention was minuscule when compared to the crowds who will greet John McCain at the Republican convention at the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul, Minn., and turn out to see Barack Obama accept the Democratic nomination at the Invesco Field football stadium in Denver.

But in a packed, sweaty room at the Hawthorn Suites, Nader emerged as the champion for "progressive" activists who rallied to send a message to the two "corporate" parties, lambasting Democrats and Republicans alike for condoning sustained war, abusing workers and neglecting families.

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The Peace and Freedom Party is on the ballot only in California. But Nader said getting the party's nomination -- and a place as a candidate in the nation's most populous state -- provided a critical jump-start to his bid to qualify for the ballot in as many as 45 states as an independent or Peace and Freedom candidate.

Nader, who ran for president as an independent in 2004, won the Peace and Freedom nomination over current Green Party candidate and former Democratic Rep. Cynthia McKinney, La Riva and fellow socialist Brian Moore. He prevailed after firing up the crowd with an indictment of the Democratic and Republican parties for supporting "a state of perpetual war." He vowed to fight for a workers' bill of rights and stand up against "systems of cruel and brutal globalization." He also pledged to end capital punishment, joking, "with the exception of the corporate death penalty" for companies taking advantage of citizens.

Posted by Steve White 2008-08-04 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11133 views ] Top

#1 Hey green-antiwar moonbats - you ideal candidate is in the race now, be sure to vote for him over tht backsliding flip-flopping Obama.

/heh

Posted by OldSpook 2008-08-04 01:29|| 2008-08-04 01:29|| Front Page Top

#2 Sure, but does this hurt Obama or McCain?

Posted by Excalibur 2008-08-04 04:24|| 2008-08-04 04:24|| Front Page Top

#3 The media will disappear Nader with a thoroughness that would make Orwell's fictitious Ministry of Truth envious.

This illustrates their pragmatism: Nader, of course, is the ideal personification of media values and objectives, but he has no chance of winning and must therefore be tossed under the proverbial bus lest he bleed moonbat votes from the Messiah.

Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2008-08-04 15:24|| 2008-08-04 15:24|| Front Page Top

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