[lbo-talk] Pariser's rather odd take on Edwards and Nader

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

>[lbo-talk] Pariser's rather odd take on Edwards and Nader
>Jon Johanning jjohanning at igc.org
>Wed Jul 7 21:16:39 PDT 2004
>
>Just got an e-mail Wednesday from MoveOn (don't ask why I'm 
>subscribed to these fool things) in which their executive director, 
>Eli Pariser,  informs me as follows:
>
>"Progressives are coming together around the ticket.  In an open 
>letter to Kerry on June 22nd, consumer champion Ralph Nader urged 
>Kerry to pick Edwards as his running mate, writing that 'One of the 
>pillars (the other two being civil rights and civil liberties) of 
>our democracy - the civil justice system - is under severe attack by 
>the corporate supremacists who wish to deny wrongfully injured or 
>defrauded people from having their full day in court or even a 
>partial day in court.  Senator Edwards can stand up for the millions 
>of Americans who suffer these harms and costs every year.' "
>
>It's true that Nader did write such an open letter to Kerry, if I 
>remember correctly. But Pariser's way of describing it in the 
>passage I quoted makes it sound as though Nader (identified in a 
>very out-of-date way as a "consumer champion") is joining the 
>Kerry-Edwards camp. Bizarre!

That's because Pariser is smarter than LBO-talk Nader bashers. 
Stupid Kerry supporters chase away Nader supporters; smart Kerry 
supporters court them.
-- 
Yoshie

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