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WASHINGTON, Jan. 30 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following is an open letter to Rush Limbaugh from Ralph Nader: Rush Limbaugh The Rush Limbaugh Show 2 Penn Plaza New York, NY 10121 Dear Mr. Limbaugh, The Associated Press reports your new contract with Premiere Radio Networks will enrich you with at least $38 million a year over the next eight years. You are making this money on the public property of the American people for which you pay no rent. You, Rush Limbaugh, are on welfare. As you know, the public airwaves belong to the American people. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC)...

Before Inauguration Day, the 111th Congress should pass a forward-looking resolution censuring President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney for executive aggrandizements or abuses that have reduced Congress to vassalage and shredded the rule of law. The resolution should express a congressional intent to prevent repetitions by the President-elect Barack Obama or his successors. The objective is not Bush-Cheney bashing, but to restore a republican form of government in which "We the People" are sovereign, and the president is checked and publicly scrutinized by Congress and the courts. The Bush-Cheney duumvirate won an undeclared war against the Constitution. Most troublesome,...

I don't know how I missed this - it looks like it was election night and Nader was given chance after chance to back off and say he should not have used the phrase "Uncle Tom"

Independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader apologized for using the phrase “Uncle Tom” in reference to president-elect Barack Obama. “It was totally inappropriate,” Nader admitted. “The Uncle Tom of literary fame was a noble, hard-working man. Obama is nothing like that.”

November 3, 2008 Open letter to Senator Barack Obama Dear Senator Obama: In your nearly two-year presidential campaign, the words "hope and change," "change and hope" have been your trademark declarations. Yet there is an asymmetry between those objectives and your political character that succumbs to contrary centers of power that want not "hope and change" but the continuation of the power-entrenched status quo. Far more than Senator McCain, you have received enormous, unprecedented contributions from corporate interests, Wall Street interests and, most interestingly, big corporate law firm attorneys. Never before has a Democratic nominee for President achieved this supremacy...

"My advice to Obama is to try and organise his people, because from day one he's going to be a prisoner of the giant corporations, who control the government he presides over. There will be a lot of economic crisis, wars in Iraq and on the Afghanistan-Pakistani border, and growing unemployment. So he doesn't have much room to maneuver, unless he builds more political energy among the people. Does he have a personality for that? No, he doesn't have a challenging personality, he has an accommodating personality to power and that doesn't spell very good news for the American people....

Ralph Nader asks if Barack Hussein Obama is going to be Uncle Sam or Uncle Tom in his reign as President of the United States. Shepard Smith takes exception to Nader’s remarks.

Here is video of Fox News' Shepherd Smith confronting Ralph Nader for saying on radio earlier today that Barack Obama now must choose between being an "Uncle Sam" who serves the neediest people of America or whether he will choose to be an "Uncle Tom" for corporations. As you will see, Nader does not regret using that choice of words one bit. He is an idiot for saying such a thing, and Shepherd Smith is over the top too. . . . . (Watch Video)

I just heard an ad listening to coast-2-coast for Ralph Nader. I am not sure whether it was a national ad or just in Virginia.

BOSTON—Independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader says he now holds the world record for most campaign speeches in a single day. Nader, 74, who is on the ballot in 45 states but is polling in single digits, said he delivered at least 255 minutes of speeches in 21 Massachusetts communities on Saturday. Nader said that was enough to get him into the Guinness Book of World Records. Guinness officials said Nader needed to give at least 150 minutes of speeches, with each speech lasting at least 10 minutes. And each time, there must be at least 10 people watching who didn't...

Independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader says he now holds the world record for most campaign speeches in a single day. Nader, who is on the ballot in 45 states but is polling in single digits, said he delivered at least 255 minutes of speeches in 21 Massachusetts communities on Saturday. Nader said that was enough to get him listed with Guinness World Records. Beginning at 8:15 a.m. Saturday in Westfield, Mass., Nader used several settings for his speeches, including a deli, a farmer's market and a library. Each time, he stayed anywhere from 15 minutes to a half hour.

Title: Nader Schools Palin! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02zpXmFEUaY&feature=related WOULD LOVE TO SEE THAT COWARD RALPH NADER SAY THIS TO THE REAL GOV. PALIN! Then we would see who the one getting schooled is, I betcha.

In a historic national presidential campaign that has shunted third-party candidates from the spotlight, San Franciscans may have forgotten that one of their own is making a bid for the vice presidency. Former San Francisco Supervisor Matt Gonzalez, running with independent candidate for president Ralph Nader, was in the Bay Area on Friday as the pair continue their national campaign, having made the ballot in 45 states. "It's been quite an experience," the 43-year-old Gonzalez reflected. Gonzalez said he has been impressed by the support their campaign has received, including in economically depressed areas in parts of Ohio and Michigan....

Watch tonight (Thursday, October 23) at 9pm ET Check your local listings for the channel. Chuck Baldwin will have an opportunity to share his views in a debate scheduled for Thursday, October 23, at 9:00 PM ET in Washington DC. Baldwin, along with other third party candidates will show voters they don’t have to settle for the socialist policies of Obama or McCain. Chuck will detail his vision for a return to Constitutional government in a 90 minute forum. This was the press release on the debate: WASHINGTON, DC- Rep. Ron Paul’s (R-TX) choice for President is among those invited...

So where is Ralph Nader? of all years when there is so much corruption on the rat side, worse than normal, where is our glorious man of righteous thinking and ideals? where is the uproar over the 1/2 billion spent by husseins' campaign, and where is the uproar over WHERE this money came from... Why aren't the banking and mortgage connections and the contributions hussein rec'd from Wall street robber barons under scrutiny by Nader?.. my opinion?.....they're out there but the drivebys won't cover them because its not in their marching orders.....

FUNNY!

Resigned to his exclusion from participating, independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader on Tuesday asked the Commission on Presidential Debates for a seat in the audience instead. “In a spirit of fairness, since you won’t allow us in the debates or release the secret polls that you rely on to figure out which candidates meet your threshold of 15 percent national support, I would like to ask that you allow me, and the three other third-party presidential candidates who are on the majority of state ballots, the common courtesy to at least have a seat at the debates among the audience,”...

In a study released today, October 10, the Gallup organization reported that third-party candidates do not appear to be a factor in the Presidential election. In Presidential elections, about 1% of voters will select a candidate other than the two major-party candidates, including a few who vote for the perennial Disney Party favorite, Mickey Mouse, some who write in “none of the above,” and scattered votes for minor parties virtually unknown outside of a local area. The Gallup results indicate that third-party voting in this election will not be substantially above that norm.

Chris Dodd, the populist hero? Chris Dodd, the protector of taxpayers? Chris Dodd, the Sheriff of Wall Street? Puh-leeze. How about Chris Dodd, the guy who helped steer us into this mess in the first place? Or Chris Dodd, the guy who spent a career passing laws friendly to banks and taking gobs of their money whenever election time rolled around? [snip] But Dodd's record is marked by votes to loosen controls over the banking and securities industries that his Senate Banking Committee was supposed to be overseeing. Most notably, Dodd voted to repeal the Depression-era Glass-Steagall Act, therefore allowing...

Bob Barr Implodes: Two weeks ago the Libertarian nominee pulled out of a press conference Ron Paul had called with the four leading third-party candidates (Barr, Baldwin, Nader, McKinney) to highlight their common ground. Barr decided to hold a press conference of his own down the hall. He also sent Paul a snide note — transmitted to Barr's e-mail list as well — suggesting that Paul ought to replace the hapless Wayne Allyn Root as Barr's running mate. This ploy could hardly have been more ham-handed: If Barr wanted to appear generous, he should have offered Paul, obviously by far...