Ralph Nader for Commerce Sec.

[Union Yes]

Mr Prez, how about throwing a bone to the left. We're starving.

Instead of stacking your cabinet with Rethugs and centrists.

Mr. Nader has spent his life preaching change and warning us of our greedmongering and warmongering ways would catch up with us.

WOW, NADER HAS BEEN SOOOO CORRECT THE WHOLE TIME!

Imagine if we had listened to him 40 years ago, or 20, or 10, or better yet NOW.

Sen Gregg was asked to help enact change? WTFUCKINF?

[yurbud]

1. only if he can run SEC, FTC, and FDA too

[Union Yes]

10. Sounds like a deal to me. =)

[NightWatcher]

2. Nader? are you high

[Union Yes]

8. I am. Is it that obvious?

I am also for decriminalization. So is Ralph.

Peace.

[Union Yes]

21. To those opposed...

Did you support Sen Gregg's nomination?

Ask yourself that question a few times and get back to me.

[tavalon]

47. What Nader did in 2000 is unconscionable,

his life's work as a consumer advocate is not. He saved so many peoples lives over the years, it's incredible. Yes, he torpedoed his reputation in 2000 but he really is a great man. History, will be mostly kind to him, quite unlike Bush. But 2000 will be a forever stain, for sure.

[Captain Hilts]

3. Nader gave us GWB. No thanks. nt

[Union Yes]

19. Gore let Tennessee slip away.

That should've never happened. To lose his home state.

It's time to stop blaming Nader for GWB's stolen elction.

[Captain Hilts]

33. Yes, he did. Clinton won it and Gore didn't. That looks really bad. I agree. nt

[nichomachus]

32. No, Gore's choice of Joe Lieberman gave us Bush . . .

Along with the Dems allowing themselves to be outmaneuvered by Rove in FL.

[bertman]

4. Put on your bullet-proof suit and deflector shields, Union Yes. But, I got your back.

I loves Ralph.

[Union Yes]

13. Thanks, me too. Peace

[salguine]

18. Me three.

[salguine]

20. Everybody's complaining that Nader "wouldn't be a team player" or would "Go

off the ranch". Damn right he wouldn't be a team player. He'd be the one—ONE—person in Washington who wouldn't knuckle under to corporate demands, wouldn't budge an inch on workers' rights, wouldn't compromise with greedy Wall Street parasites...

[Union Yes]

26. Exactly why he would be perfect for the job!

[MadBadger]

27. He would Serve at the Pleasure of the President...none of think he'd actually do that.

[GreenPartyVoter]

5. I hear that

[leftstreet]

6. Ah! A Nader thread that's not yet a Two Minutes Hate

K&R

:thumbsup:

[NeedleCast]

7. Sweet Baby J, NO!

[MadBadger]

9. Ralph Nader wouldnt be....whats the word Im looking for...A team Player?

[nichomachus]

28. Trouble in Washington is

too many players -- in both parties -- playing for the same team -- the Corporate Team.

[MadBadger]

29. True, but I'm speaking more for the fact that I dont think Nader could work for Obama

Hed want to forward his own agenda, and Not the President's.

[nichomachus]

30. But it's no dumber than putting obstructionist Republicans in your cabinet

And Obama has no problem with that.

[MadBadger]

31. And I havent agreed with the picks of Gates and Gregg

I thought a Republican should be in the cabinet, but more like a Chuck Hagel for Defense.

[nichomachus]

34. I don't believe any Republicans should be in the Cabinet -- period

Bipartisanship means that you listen to the other party, you meet with them, you give them a seat at the table, you honestly consider their interests and their point of view -- and you incorporate those interests and that point of view as best you can within your program.

It doesn't mean that you put them in charge of enacting your agenda -- especially when they march in lockstep with the party bosses who got us into the mess you're trying to correct.

However, if Obama is going to reach out to people who disagree with him on the right, he should reach out to people on the left who disagree with him.

[MadBadger]

36. THats why you choose Repubs who dont march in lockstep...Like Hagel for Defense.

[nichomachus]

41. Sorry -- there isn't one Republican I trust -- not one.

[Union Yes]

37. Very well said.

[cobalt1999]

11. That's not a bone, that's a spit in the face.

No thanks

[rpannier]

12. No

Nader has a problem working with others -- and much of the admin and Congress does not agree with him.

The purpose of a Cabinet is to push the President's agenda -- not their own.

[rvablue]

14. And folks were fretting about Clinton going off the reservation as SoS?

Nader's bloated ego wouldn't allow him to take orders from President Obama.

So, even if he was offered, he wouldn't accept.

[MadBadger]

25. First thought that came to my mind was ur subject line

I chose to leave that part out though.

[Kahuna]

15. Bullshit. nt

[depakid]

16. He'd be perfect for the FTC

In fact, had Clinton gone that route- rather than joining up with the far right, we wouldn't be in this mess- nor would we have had 8 years of Bush.

[NMDemDist2]

17. ...

:puke:

[Median Democrat]

22. Great, So Nader Can Instruct Obama On How to Be Black, Like...

...He repeatedly did during the primaries by making repeated references to Obama's race, and how he was trying to act "white."

[Union Yes]

23. To those opposed...

Did you support Sen Gregg's nomination?

Ask yourself that question a few times and get back to me.

[MadBadger]

24. No I didnt, and I still dont support Nader

[ProfessorGAC]

38. Completely Irrelevant

Not wanting Gregg does not equate to wanting Nader.

That's syllogistic nonsense.
GAC

[Duke Newcombe]

61. Curiously enough...repeating a comparison doesn't make a bad idea better. n/t

[elocs]

35. No, no way. Never. n/t

[ColesCountyDem]

39. Thank you, but no thanks. n/t

[mzmolly]

40. Nader has done many great things. Being friendly to labor is not

among them. Google "Nader union busting" to find out more.

[depakid]

42. Crikey- who else do you hear calling for the repeal of Taft-Hartley?

Mainstream "Democrats." LOL.

[mzmolly]

45. The irony

of it all, huh? ;) "Repentant Union Busters for the repeal of Taft-Hartley"

[depakid]

49. Nonsense

[mzmolly]

55. Indeed.

http://www.realchange.org/nader.htm#antiunion

[NavyDavy]

43. he needs to put somewhere and its not in President Obamas

Cabinet I am thinking an island in the middle of the Pacific where he can't screw up any more elections for us Dems!!!!

[mudesi]

44. FUCK Nader

He's the reason Bush won.

[tavalon]

53. Yes, he's part of the reason and that will dog his legacy forever

If you don't know about the Ralph Nader before that contest, you are missing a big chunk and if anyone in your family has been in an auto accident in the last 20 years and survived, chances are, they owe their life to Ralph Nader. He isn't a one tune man, he just hit an awfully bad note in 2000 and it will go down in history along with the amazing good he did for the American consumer. You needn't worry, that stain will remain on him forever.

[robinlynne]

46. not a bad idea. or head of consumer protection agenices like the FDA?

[zbdent]

48. I thought that was a bone to the Right ...

weren't they backing Nader in 2000? Cheering him in 04?

[cynatnite]

50. Fuck Nader. n/t

[ColbertWatcher]

51. Nader has not shown himself qualified to hold any public office.

Even an appointed one.

He distrusts the voters so much that he won't run for a local office.

[SidDithers]

52. No thanks, I'd prefer a democrat...nt

Sid

[H2O Man]

54. silly

[TahitiNut]

56. As a guy who worked at Chevrolet C.O. back in the "Unsafe At Any Speed" days ...

... I think he'd do a very good job at Commerce. :shrug: Sue me, but I just don't get all rabid about his "political nonconformism." That's part of why I'm an independent, I guess.

That's not to say I think there's a snowball's chance, however.

[H2O Man]

58. As Howard Cosell used to say,

"He isn't the man he used to be." I'd certainly like the Ralph N of his/my youth to serve in that position. But he only exists in our memories.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

57. Too Liberal!! Too Liberal!!

God forbid the DLC and Blue Dogs be offended.

[ogneopasno]

59. Nah, we don't need another union buster in there, thanks.

[anonymous171]

60. Ralph Nader does not play well with others. Just ask the Greens.

After 2000 he unceremoniously dumped the lot of them.