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I'm a bit bemused about all the bad feeling going around about Ralph Nader deciding to run for US President. Ignoring the fact that Gore didn't actually loose in 2000, blaming Nader is simply an excuse for his personal failings. As Michael Moore said about a month before the elections, if Gore supporters were making pleas to Nader to step down and put his support behind Gore then that really meant that Gore was admitting defeat early, and he should be stepping down and urging Democrats to support Nader. What's disappointing is that the US seems to have an electoral system which stops almost all the people in the country from trying to stand for the job when the consititution is supposed to be about everyone being free to try anything they want. Instead US citizens get to choose between the party that supports the rich or the party that supports the ultra-rich. So, supposedly the stakes this time are 'too high' to risk having Nader stand as a candidate. Gee, maybe the Democrats would like to suggest that Bush is also prevented from standing so they have a better chance but let's face it, the Democrats could loose a one-horse race. Maybe the solution is to stop whining and concentrate their energies on getting the message across to the public about where Bush's manifold failures and problems are and what their party would do to make it better.

Meanwhile, meet the crackpots who think Dubya is too much of a lefty.