>>>>http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/02/24/nader.politics/index.html
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>>>>If Ralph Nader tips another election to the Republicans I am personally going to assassinate him. What an egomaniac.
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>>>How completely un-American. You don't have to vote for him, but he has the right to run.
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>>>Think of it as democracy in action.
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>>I see your point, and it's a fine principle. It's also true that he is acting like a spoiler who can't stand not seeing his name in the paper.
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>I finally RTFA you linked above. It makes me wonder whether the article has been changed in the interim, we seem to have completely different interpretations of it.
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>What really leaps out at me is the near-fascist arrogance of Hillary Clinton, assuming these quotes are correct:
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>"Calling Nader's move "very unfortunate," Sen. Hillary Clinton told reporters, "I remember when he ran before. It didn't turn out very well for anybody -- especially our country.""
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>""This time I hope it doesn't hurt anyone. I can't think of anybody that would vote for Sen. McCain who would vote for Ralph Nader," she said."
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>Clearly, "Mama knows best".

The only conclusion I drew from the article is that Ralph Nader has announced he is running for President (once again). The supposition that this might be bad news for the Democrats (once again) was my own.

We agree about Hillary. I think her hubris is one of the main reasons her candidacy is going down the tubes. She assumed the nomination was hers and said so in televised interviews late last year and early this year. ("I will be the nominee," she said in one of them, correcting an interviewer who asked about something she might do if she were the nominee). The postmortem of the Clinton campaign has already started and one of the themes is that they really had no plan after Super Tuesday. They assumed the nomination would be hers by then. The Obama campaign, meanwhile, kept working in the upcoming states. There is this notion that Obama has risen based purely on personal charisma. In fact he has a very organized campaign that has more offices and more volunteers than Hillary in most post-Super Tuesday states, probably all of them. How the mighty have fallen.