An Open Letter to Nader Voters
Dear Potential Nader Voters:
I’m humbly asking you to reconsider your vote, and to support Barack Obama for President of the United States. As election day is near, I will try to make my appeal brief. So, in the spirit of democracy and free exchange of ideas, I hope that you will consider the following five factors, in no particular order, before casting your vote:
1. The Supreme Court: John Paul Stevens is 88 years of age, Ruth Bader Ginsburg is 75, Steven Breyer is 70, and David Souter is 69. If John McCain is elected, he will likely make at least one, maybe several SCOTUS appointments, and they will definitely be more conservative than any of the four justices mentioned above. This could have far-reaching influence over our nation for decades, especially since any McCain appointments would be joining the likes of Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas, and Samuel Alito to form an overwhelmingly arch-conservative court.
2. Energy and the Environment: I’ll leave it to the Sierra Club, who makes the case for Obama in a handy clean-energy scorecard. The difference between the two candidates is stark.
3. The Iraq War: We all know the difference: Obama had the foresight and good judgement to question this war from its inception, and is committed to ending it.
4. The Vice-Presidency: If Obama loses this election, Sarah Palin will be President of the United States if anything happens to John McCain. Sarah Palin. President. John McCain is a 72 year-old cancer survivor.
5. The 2000 Election: (This one speaks for itself).
Thank you for your consideration, and I hope that you will vote for the Obama-Biden ticket.
Sincerely,
JimLarkinsGhost
November 4th, 2008 at 12:24 am
If Obama was interested in persuading Nader supporters to vote for him, why was he afraid to make his case for the Nader vote by agreeing to debate with Nader and third-party candidates in some kind of pre-election televised debate?
Ironically, sitting on the board of directors of one of the Wall Street banks, JP Morgan Chase, that is getting $25 billion in corporate welfare/investment funds from the U.S. Treasury as part of the bail-out program that both Obama and McCain endorsed is a member of the Obama campaign’s finance committee, General Dynamics board member James Crown.
And, according to a recent posting of the antiwar World Can’t Wait grassroots activist group, Obama “voted, as recently voted, as recently as June 2008, and every time he could, to fund the war in Iraq; 50-80,000 troops there until at least 2013, and plans to increase the size of the U.S. military by 92,000 troops. He says `We need more troops, more helicopters, better intelligence-gathering and more nonmilitary assistance to accomplish the mission”in Afghanistan, where the U.S. military has regularly killed scores of civilians. Obama suggested that Bush launch missile strikes inside Pakistan, which Bush began secretly in July, killing scores of civilians. Obama threatens Iran with `all options’ (including nukes).”
Obama also apparently “voted for Bush’s FISA spying bill which gave immunity to those who broke the law, and allows more government spying than Bush even asked for,” according to this same antiwar group.
Nader supporters who are anti-war and concerned about the continued threat to the civil liberties of activists who dissent from the U.S. military-industiral-congressional-media complex’s policy of “bipartisan militarism,” should consider protesting against both the Big Media’s rigging of the U.S. presidential electoral process by excluding Nader from the televised debates (in contrast to how Ross Perot was treated in 1992 and 1996) and the failure of both the Democrats and the Republicans in Congress to vote for the withdrawal all U.S. troops from Iraq and Afghanistan after the 2006 Congressional elections. by voting their consciences on election day.