Jim Hightower gives keynote address at Greens National Convention for Ralph Nader.

[onehandle]

Now he's campaigning for Obama?
_____________________________

The Greens are holding their national convention in Denver in late June. Nader has tapped Native American activist and author Winona LaDuke as his running mate. Texas populist Jim Hightower will deliver the keynote address, and featured speakers will include anti-nuclear activist Helen Caldicott, 1980 independent presidential candidate John Anderson, Columbia University professor Manning Marable and Tony Mazzocchi, one of the chief organizers of the Labor Party.

http://www.inthesetimes.com/issue/24/16/nichols2416.html

I cancelled my subscription to Hightower's news letter in December 2000.

Bush and Gore are exactly the same. Bush and Gore are exactly the same. Bush and Gore are exactly the same.

[terrya]

1. Well...I have to congratulate Obama on this endorsement.

Hell, I voted for Nader in 2000. I'm sure as hell not going to condemn anyone else for their past support of Nader.

Jim Hightower is a good man. I always thought he'd make a great Secretary of Agriculture in a Democratic administration. Good for Obama.

[robbedvoter]

2. he got Susan "mock the Palm Beach voters" Sarandon too - the whole gang is there

[Hawkeye-X]

3. This was in 2000.

I'm sure a lot of ex-Greens are now voting for the right people this time.

Is Nader running at this time? No. Considering, yes, but not running.

Hawkeye-X

[roody]

5. The right people got pushed out of the

process. I am glad I stayed Green.

[New Dawn]

4. Excellent

I'm glad that he sees the importance of punishing the right-wing Clintons by making them lose the primary.

[The_Casual_Observer]

6. Trouble with Hightower is that he accomplishes nothing.

The populists always end up on the wrong side of things & unwittingly end up lending support to the right wing.

[FrenchieCat]

7. Nader endorsed John Edwards this year.....

and so, what are you saying?

That because you've gone from progressive to corporate, that somehow every else becomes suspect?

[onehandle]

8. I question the common sense of anyone who supported Nader in 2000.

I'm not alone.

[FrenchieCat]

9. But you kind of are.

Again Nader supported Edwards this year.

Hightower supports Obama this year.

Why are you stuck in the year 2000?

Oh, yeah....you must be a Hillary supporter living in the past of the Bill heady NAFTA days or something. :eyes:

[onehandle]

11. I'm uncommitted. Whoever wins is fine with me. nt

[avrdream]

10. Heh, heh.

Well-timed.

I didn't think the Hightower endorsement was great either.

Now, Joe Wilson and Wes Clark, THOSE are good endorsements.

[ulysses]

12. in other words,

"don't you dare support a third party candidate, ever, or I'll hold my breath until I turn blue every time I see your name in print for the rest of my life".

:eyes:

[onehandle]

13. That would have been a good year not to support a third party candidate.

Many of us were screaming it that year. Trading our votes. Anything we could do.

It. Was. Not. A. Secret.

[ulysses]

14. that would have been a good year not to run a center-right campaign.

Many of us were screaming that as well.

[onehandle]

15. That's true too.

But less than one half of 1% of 90,000+ Florida Nader voters had to know what was happening.

Maybe?

[ulysses]

16. they were voting for their preferred candidate.

What's to know?

[onehandle]

17. You say potato...

...I say thirty years of a Corporate Right-Wing Supreme Court.

Let's call the whole thing off!

[ulysses]

18. you say tomato...

I say NAFTA and "the end of welfare as we know it". Unfortunately, it's too late to call it off.

[Alexander]

19. So Obama's winning us Republican, Indy and Green voters. Good for him!

It means if Obama's the nominee, we won't have to worry about Nader.