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Liberals vow to challenge Obama in Democratic primaries (Ralph Nader alert)
The Washington Times ^ | 9-19-2011 | Seth McLaughlin

Posted on 09/19/2011 12:11:24 PM PDT by Danae

"President Obama’s smooth path to the Democratic nomination may have gotten rockier Monday, after a group of liberal leaders, including former presidential candidate Ralph Nader, announced plans to challenge the incumbent in primaries next year.

The group said the goal is to offer up a handful of candidates from various fields and areas where the president either has failed to stake out a “progressive” position or where he has “drifted toward the corporatist right.”

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2012demprimary; alertillegalalien; ancienthistory; bho2012; election; hillary; nader; obama; primary
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To: Danae

I read an article about this that doesn’t say Nader will run (but doesn’t preclude one), but wants to get other(s) to do so. http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-nader-obama-20110919,0,6585807.story?track=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+latimes%2Fnews%2Fpolitics+%28L.A.+Times+-+Politics%29&utm_content=Google+Feedfetcher


81 posted on 09/19/2011 3:50:46 PM PDT by PghBaldy (War Powers Res: http://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/warpower.asp)
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To: dynachrome
Daggone it, there just has to be room for my man Dennis Kucinich on that ticket. Maybe Interplanetary State Department. I'll think it over.
82 posted on 09/19/2011 3:51:34 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Gopher Broke
we need some kind of BLACK reparation party candidate



"Win we much! We much do more much win."
83 posted on 09/19/2011 4:16:27 PM PDT by LostInBayport (When there are more people riding in the cart than there are pulling it, the cart stops moving...)
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To: untenured
That is an amazing article, coming out only three years before Unsafe at Any Speed came out.

It certainly surprised me.

84 posted on 09/19/2011 4:26:51 PM PDT by danielmryan
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To: Billthedrill

Kucinich

I’d be at home with the smokin’ hot wife if I were him!


85 posted on 09/19/2011 4:30:10 PM PDT by dynachrome ("Our forefathers didn't bury their guns. They buried those that tried to take them.")
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To: ngat
Huh? Define modern times.

A movie made by Charlie Chaplin


86 posted on 09/19/2011 4:33:33 PM PDT by COBOL2Java (Obama is the least qualified guy in whatever room he walks into.)
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To: Danae

No, Ralph, those Democrat primaries are rigged by Big Business to yield the results that they want; you need to take the fight directly to the people and run for president in the general election.

: )


87 posted on 09/19/2011 4:59:02 PM PDT by AuH2ORepublican (If a politician won't protect innocent babies, what makes you think that he'll protect your rights?)
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To: BO Stinkss

Someone call Attttaaaaack Waaaaaaaatch on Ralph Nader.


88 posted on 09/19/2011 5:56:13 PM PDT by stratman1969 (Run, Sarah, Run - 2012!)
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To: dynachrome

Arrrrrrrrrrgh! (talk like a pirate day) Me eyes!


89 posted on 09/19/2011 6:02:24 PM PDT by Danae (Anailnathrach ortha bhais beatha do cheal deanaimha)
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To: Danae

Arrrrrrr, matey. I fergot all about the hollerday! “Fetch aft the rum, Darby”!


90 posted on 09/19/2011 6:04:46 PM PDT by dynachrome ("Our forefathers didn't bury their guns. They buried those that tried to take them.")
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To: Danae
Where do we send the contributions ( couple of bucks here, couple of bucks there).

I love it. Operation Divide and Conquer. Ramp it up folks. Feed the engine of Liberal Democrat anger and angst over Obambi.

It is entirely exploitable.

91 posted on 09/19/2011 6:21:39 PM PDT by AmericanInTokyo (De-RINOFICATION of the GOP leadership is Job Number ONE. Let's GIT 'ER DONE!!)
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To: Danae

Just the headline made me laugh so hard it brought tears to my eyes...ah ha ha ha


92 posted on 09/19/2011 6:27:47 PM PDT by katiedidit1
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To: Danae

Let the Liberal Rebellion against the Liberal Messiah begin!


93 posted on 09/19/2011 6:33:59 PM PDT by Repeal 16-17 (Let me know when the Shooting starts.)
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To: Danae

Nader (or whoever it turns out to be) is doing Obama a great favor, by allowing him to seem centrist and reasonable, rather than the fist-in-the-air Marxist he really is.


94 posted on 09/19/2011 6:35:38 PM PDT by RightOnTheLeftCoast (Obama: running for re-election in '12 or running for Mahdi now? [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahdi])
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To: HomeAtLast

Has Ralph Nader ever had a shot at it? (Nah.)
Has he ever influenced the outcome? (Yeah.)


I persuaded a liberal women to vote for Nader in 2000. Otherwise she would have voted for Algore.

She caught on to me after the election and told me I was a rotten SOB. I laughed and she hasn’t spoken to me since.


95 posted on 09/19/2011 7:31:58 PM PDT by unkus (Silence Is Consent)
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To: unkus

People are stupid. They don’t like it when it is pointed out.


96 posted on 09/19/2011 7:37:33 PM PDT by eyedigress ((Old storm chaser from the west)?)
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To: Billthedrill
Groovy, baby.

Dial your time machine forward about ten years, bro. It was, "That's a trip, dude", remember?

97 posted on 09/19/2011 10:03:21 PM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: Windflier

Well, it’s kinda hazy, truth be told. I remember when pot had seeds and Linda Ronstadt and Gracie Slick were skinny and then there were the flashing iridescent purple spiders that crawled all over the floor... Wait, did you see them too? Please tell me you saw them too...


98 posted on 09/19/2011 11:36:43 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: NFHale

Keep our eye on the prize - WH & Congress. We need all three, particularly Congress and Congress for decades.


99 posted on 09/20/2011 3:47:29 AM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: NFHale

I’m sure the DUMS want Obama OUT of the White House and OUT of the Democratic Party and preferably OUT of the country to boot. He’s inadvertantly taken a wrecking ball against the Democratic Party and thoroughly discredited it to the point where no one will want (with the exception of entertainers) to be associated with them. Obama has alienated everyone that used ot be a valuable ally and he has perversely sparked a revival of patriotism in this country that is at long last grassroots and not entirely reliant on a specific leadership to do all the work.


100 posted on 09/20/2011 4:51:25 AM PDT by Niuhuru (The Internet is the digital AIDS; adapting and successfully destroying the MSM host.)
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