Ralph Who?
Presidential candidate Ralph Nader held a rally at the University of Denver last night, but you'd never know it from the MSM.
I sure didn't know about it, and Nader's my man.
And that's why I've been haunted by strains of Your Cheatin' Heart in my head all day long, as I've been anticipating Barak Obama's acceptance speech tonight, and realizing that I'll probably vote for Obama as well.
I want so much to believe Obama is "the real deal," as my wife likes to say. But I just don't know. I just don't know that Obama wants to bring the kind of needed change that Nader would fight like hell for — this kind of change:
We were the biggest power in the world after World War II. Western Europe was devastated, but those people pushed and got, by law, universal healthcare, decent pensions, living wage, decent public transit, paid vacation, paid maternity leave, paid family sick leave, university free education. They got it, by law.
Sixty-three years later, these two parties, the Republican and Democratic parties, still have not given the American people what people in western Europe got decades ago...These giant corporations that hijacked our government are tearing the heart and soul out of America.
But there's something about Obama that makes me want to believe him. Hell, even progressive David Sarota, a biting critic of weak-kneed pseudo-Democrats, was moved to cheer "the remarkable rise of progressives" in the 2008 Democratic party:
The Democratic wing of the Democratic Party, as Paul Wellstone famously called it — has finally defeated the corporate wing of the party.
Dunno, David. Maybe it's just the convention kool-aid talking, or that rarefied Denver air. I'm just not as sure as you. I'm just hoping Obama will still respect us in the morning, after his victory. I know Nader would.
