On Sep 29, 2008, at 10:30 PM, Stephen Philion wrote:
> The same as just about everybody else. Which gives me no right to
> throw cliches at anybody, least of all Ralph Nader who is fighting the
> good fight and speaking truth to and for millions of us.
>
> Shane
>
> ---I doubt that your intent is to go here, but it sounds like icons
> are above criticism. Besides, if he has no strategy for organizing
> those millions, what's the point of speaking for them at a time like
> this?
Because somebody ought to do it and nobody else (not me and not Stephen Philion) except him can. Besides, he does have such a strategy, involving organizing permanent citizen groups in every Congressional district. Will it result in anything? Maybe not. But what will result from snide scoffing (Nader an icon, an ICON???) and nose-holding Obama support we know only too well.
Shane Mage
"Thunderbolt steers all things...it consents and does not consent to be called Zeus."
Herakleitos of Ephesos