Pulitzer prize winning journalist, Chris Hedges endorses Ralph Nader. Like Hedges, I cast a vote for Ralph Nader. Not because I expect him to win but because I believe in democracy and the right of choice and am tired of being sold the two party candidates by a media that will not allow third party debate contestants, or offer them equal coverage. Also, I voted for him because he is advocates for real, multi party democracy.
There is little disagreement among liberals and progressives about the Nader and Obama campaign issues. Nader would win among us in a landslide if this was based on issues. Sen. Barack Obama’s vote to renew the Patriot Act, his votes to continue to fund the Iraq war, his backing of the FISA Reform Act, his craven courting of the Israeli lobby, his support of the death penalty, his refusal to champion universal, single-payer not-for-profit health care for all Americans, his call to increase troop levels and expand the war in Afghanistan, his failure to call for a reduction in the bloated and wasteful defense spending and his lobbying for the huge taxpayer swindle known as the bailout are repugnant to most of us on the left. Nader stands on the other side of all those issues.
So if the argument is not about issues what is it about?
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