[Sosfbay-discuss] Running for president vs. Training the next progressive generation

[Andrea Dorey]

Add to that (see below) the comments that were made on KFPA at nopn  
today that this race is a "really critical" one and "we all need to  
get on board," yatteta, yatteta, blah, blah, etc.  We have heard this  
political whine every election, starting in the last century.  If  
people are soooo afraid of "spoiler" effects by a third party person  
running, why don't they fix the system so we don't have it happen?   
It's so easy to fix that almost every other democracy has fixed it.   
But it hasn't happened here:  WHY??
Andrea
PS, Nader is not running to win, but to speak truth to power, BECAUSE  
NO ONE ELSE WILL.

On Feb 26, 2008, at 11:04 PM, Edward wrote:

> Nobody has been elected to the presidency past the age of 70. I'm  
> not saying that it is not possible, but how many more times can  
> Nader run for office? Once he goes off to hang out with the  
> Founding Fathers, who is going to take up the fight against  
> corporate America?
>
> Here we have Cynthia McKinney, who has potential to really help  
> move the party forward after Ralph has moved on, but there doesn't  
> seem to be much joint effort between the two of them. I really  
> admire Ralph Nader, but we're looking at the next ten months when  
> we should also be looking at the next ten years.
>
> Should we even be focusing on the presidential race? In 2006, we  
> ran a candidate for governor in Illinois and he pulled more than  
> the 10% threshold needed to retain ballot access. If we can do that  
> for more states, we'd actually have a base we can depend on rather  
> than essentially starting from scratch every four years in 20+ states.
>
> Do we have an updated list of which states we have ballot access  
> and the other information that is currently listed at http:// 
> web.greens.org/statestatus/
>
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