Ralph Nader for President 2008 blog -- Ralph Nader for President in 2008

Our Post-Election Issues Survey 12/08/08

Thanks to all of you who participated in our recent survey.

We wanted to know what issues you were most interested in working on.

More than 10,000 of you responded.

And the results are now in.

In the Public Interest: The More Things Change The More They Stay The Same 11/21/08

While the liberal intelligentsia was swooning over Barack Obama during his presidential campaign, I counseled "prepare to be disappointed." His record as an Illinois state and U.S. Senator, together with the many progressive and long overdue courses of action he opposed during his campaign, rendered such a prediction unfortunate but obvious.

In the Public Interest: Restoring the Constitution 11/13/08

Barack Obama is receiving lots of advice from many people these days about the collapse of Wall Street, the sinking economy and the quagmire wars he will inherit from the Bush regime. However, there is one important matter that he alone can address with his legal training and the sworn oath he will take on January 20 to uphold the Constitution. That phenomenon is the systemic, chronic lawlessness and criminality of the Bush/Cheney regime which he must unravel and stop.

Blow Out Nader/Gonzalez DVD/Book Sale 11/13/08

It's a blow out clearance Nader/Gonzalez DVD/book sale!

Everything must go!

We're slashing prices!

Just in time for Thanksgiving and the Holidays.

Pick up your Nader/Gonzalez memorabilia.

Soon to be classic collector's items.

What We Accomplished Together 11/11/08

To staff, volunteers, supporters, donors, and voters

Authoritative public sentiments have always been there, have they not? From the Declaration of Independence's majestic prose to the preamble of our Constitution which begins with "We the People of the United States ..." to Lincoln's Gettysburg Address "toward a new birth of freedom ... for a government of the people, by the people and for the people" to the last words of the pledge of allegiance -- "with liberty and justice for all."

In the Public Interest: Between Hope and Reality 11/08/08

Dear Senator Obama:

...Your presidential campaign again and again has demonstrated cowardly stands. "Hope" some say "springs eternal." But not when "reality" consumes it daily...

Ralph Nader’s Statement on the Truncated Quotation Used by Shepard Smith on Fox News 11/07/08

Fox talk show host Shepard Smith repeated my question that was posed for Senator Barack Obama in an interview with Fox radio station KTRH Houston but deleted the last several words after giant corporations. The full question posed to Senator Obama that is his to answer in the coming months was as follows: