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Ralph Nader & Cornel West Unveil Proposal to Challenge Obama in Primaries

The proposal, which has been endorsed by over 45 distinguished leaders, seeks to have a slate of six candidates run against President Obama, each representing a field in which Obama has never clearly staked a progressive claim or where he has drifted toward the corporatist right.

“Without debates by challengers inside the Democratic Party’s presidential primaries, the liberal/majoritarian agenda will be muted and ignored,” said Ralph Nader. 

“The one-man Democratic primaries will be dull, repetitive, and draining of both voter enthusiasm and real bright lines between the two parties that excite voters,” Nader said.

A letter is being sent to a list of distinguished elected officials, civic leaders, prominent members of academia and the NGO community who represent the fields of labor, poverty, military and foreign policy, health insurance and care, the environment, financial regulation, consumer protection, and civil, political and human rights/empowerment.

“We need to put strong democratic pressure on President Obama in the name of poor and working people” said Cornel West, author and Professor at Princeton University. “His administration has tilted too much toward Wall Street, we need policies that empower Main Street.”

On paper I agree with pretty much everything Ralph Nader stands for (and he’s Lebanese, what up), but the “spoiler” controversy in 2000 definitely turned me off. And he has said things about President Obama and Hillary Clinton, in particular, that suggest he’s a tool. Is this common knowledge? I’m not too into third party candidates anyway.

(via cocknbull)

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• Posted: 20 September 2011
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