Ralph Nader’s presidential campaign is different this year. It’s not just that he’s raising money and “running” hither and yon where he barely “stood” for election four years ago. The lethal difference is that Nader is only too happy to gouge Al Gore’s claims to conscience: Nader calls the Vice President “an environmental imposter,” a “gee-whiz techno twit.”
And if Ralph Nader finds himself in a position, come November, to strip key states like California, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania from Gore and the Democrats, he will do it with relish. George W. Bush may be worse, a corporate creature “beyond satire,” in Nader’s dig. But Al Gore’s the obstacle, he says, to what the country needs most: a people’s alternative to corporate control over work and wages, over medicine and media, over trade policy and, yes, political campaigns.
(Hosted by Christopher Lydon)
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Ralph Nader