Prometheus 6:

July 06, 2003

Have you selected your President yet?

The 2004 Presidential Candidate Selector gave me the following interesting results:

1. Green Party Candidate (100%)
2. Kucinich, Cong. Dennis, OH - Democrat (92%)
3. Kerry, Senator John, MA - Democrat (84%)
4. Gephardt, Cong. Dick, MO - Democrat (76%)
5. Jackson, Cong. Jesse Jr., IL - Democrat (74%)
6. Leahy, Patrick Senator, Vermont - Democrat (74%)
7. Edwards, Senator John, NC - Democrat (73%)
8. Sharpton, Reverend Al - Democrat (73%)
9. Dean, Gov. Howard, VT - Democrat (72%)
10. Lieberman Senator Joe CT - Democrat (71%)
11. Socialist Candidate (69%)
12. Feingold, Senator Russ, WI - Democrat (65%)
13. Biden, Senator Joe, DE - Democrat (63%)
14. Graham, Senator Bob, FL - Democrat (59%)
15. Moseley-Braun, Former Senator Carol IL - Democrat (59%)
16. Kaptur, Cong. Marcy, OH - Democrat (50%)
17. Feinstein, Senator Dianne, CA - Democrat (43%)
18. Libertarian Candidate (41%)
19. Clark, Retired Army General Wesley K "Wes" Arkansas - Democrat (38%)
20. Bradley, Former Senator Bill NJ - Democrat (29%)
21. McCain, Senator John, AZ- Republican (15%)
22. Bush, George W. - US President (8%)
23. Buchanan, Patrick J. � Reform/Republican (4%)
24. Hagelin, John - Natural Law (4%)
25. Vilsack, Governor. Tom IA - Democrat (-2%)
26. Phillips, Howard - Constitution (-4%)
27. LaRouche, Lyndon H. Jr. - Democrat (-9%)

It's a bit off— I'd vote for LaRouche before Bush. But I'm not voting Green. Why?

A Nader Voter Sings the Bush Blues
'It's Tweedledee and Tweedledum,' he said then. Now he says he's repentant.
By Jason Salzman
Jason Salzman, co-founder of Repent NaderVoter.com, is author of "Making the News: A Guide for Activists and Nonprofits" (1998, Westview Press).

July 6, 2003

After George W. Bush was elected president, my Gore-loving neighbor gave me a green "Unrepentant Nader Voter" bumper sticker. After the Florida fiasco, she thought I would be ashamed to stick it on my car. Wrong. I immediately slapped it on my Honda. It was beautiful.

In March, shortly after bombs began dropping on Baghdad, I took a razor blade from my garage and excised the letters "un" from "unrepentant," leaving "repentant Nader Voter" on my bumper.

It was a liberating act of self-correction that all Nader voters should think about.

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