Reader comments: Nader to talk July 31 at U.

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Voting Libertarian | 7:37 a.m. July 22, 2008
Former GOP congressmen Bob Barr and part-time Deer Valley resident Wayne Root comprise the Libertarian Party's national ticket.
Here we... | 8:44 a.m. July 22, 2008
go again. I can't wait for allegations again that this Nader guy is screwing up the distribution of votes......LOL!!
Not this time. | 8:50 a.m. July 22, 2008
There won't be allegations about him screwing up this election because no one cares about Nader any more.
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Carl | 8:53 a.m. July 22, 2008
I admire Ralph Nader. He fights for what he believes is right and he never stops. We need more candidates with his energy and willingness to fight for principles.
Dooku | 8:59 a.m. July 22, 2008
my favorite time of the year coming up. I will be sitting in my lazy boy chair, with my feet up and with a big bowl of buttery pop corn on my lap, watching Politicians pointing fingers at each other and stabbing each other in the back.....LMAO!!
Don't Waste Your Time | 12:47 p.m. July 22, 2008
I had an experience with one of Nader’s organizations in college. The overriding thing I came away with was, this organization’s goals were more important than anything else, including the law and ethics. In other words, the ends justify the means. My impression of Nader has not changed, he wants to force us into nationalized healthcare, force us to reduce our energy consumption and move more towards socialism. It doesn’t matter to him that what the outcome is in other nations, because he can do it better. Don’t waste your time on this socialist has-been.
Ashley Sanders | 5:15 p.m. July 22, 2008
I think that is a very unfair way to characterize Nader. He is offering platforms that the majority of Americans want--68 percent want to withdraw from Iraq, 47 million are without healthcare, etc--and is brave enough to take on the root causes of our political problems and offer solutions commensurate with the gravity of the problem. Nader is particularly and vital in his willingness to take on corporate influence, which is at the root of so many of the other problems we are trying to solve. I think it is very harmful when we start believing that the people who characterize problems honestly and will give us their undistorted opinions are the people to be wary of. Why do the other people--who rarely do these things--get a free ride when so many of their policies have such ugly and unjust consequences? Nader is the kind of person that people admire in retrospect; we should do him credit by admiring him in the present tense.
wallofvoodoo | 8:22 p.m. July 22, 2008
Say what you want about Nader, can't be any worse than the other two clowns in the big parties.
Tim Matthews | 6:06 p.m. July 23, 2008
I’ve said it before,
If you want to see a REAL difference in the ways and direction this country influences the world at large, then vote a candidate that you can conscientiously support.
I’m tired of the bickering amongst a divided, distracted, and diverted populace. The present corporate strategy seems to be, “Let the people argue, we’ll do what we want while they’re distracted.” Our government professes belief in freedom, democracy, a responsible and responsive constituency as well as a government, and I see no evidence of that. The lack of meaningful participation by the populace shows in the acts of leadership, both parties, the reactionary behavior by this administration, and the lukewarm non-binding behavior by the democratically controlled, (ha, ha), congress. We as a people, should display a society that believes in and promotes fairness and justice in this country as an example for other governments to emulate. Let us throw the corporate minions out of
THE PEOPLES’ GOVERNMENT, and return POWER to the PEOPLE. After all,isn’t the definition of democracy a government of, by, and for THE PEOPLE?

Just my thoughts of what we’ve forgotten, what we’ve neglected.

Vote Sanity, Vote Nader.

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