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Obama and McCain on Civil Liberties: More like Tweedledum and Tweedledee?

By Marks & Katz, LLC

 Bill of Rights (From public domain.) Had Ralph Nader not run for president in 2000, Al Gore would have beaten George Bush, II. Nader knew he would not win the presidency, but also had a powerful message that most Democratic and Republican candidates and officeholders are more fundamentally alike than they are different, maintaining most of the status quo of the government-military-industrial complex. The only way to break out of the underdemocratic -- if not downright undemocratic -- two-party system is to risk electoral victories by the worst major candidates on the road to a truly multi-party system. Anger by anti-Bushies towards Nader is misplaced; a huge percentage of people alienated by the two-party system will risk having a terrible candidate elected before allowing themselves to be co-opted to the same old money-/machine-politics...continue to full post

Full post as published by Underdog on October 17, 2008 (boomark / email).