Word: nader
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...will miss the man himself. Frankly, I think everyone will, even the conspiracy theorists, the impeachment managers and the betrayed leftists who rallied around Ralph Nader's granola-munching march to irrelevance. We will miss him because in an age of small men, when lackluster eldest sons duel for the presidency and petty time-servers scrabble for scraps in Congress, Bill Clinton was huge, a towering figure across our political landscape. Like Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, he "doth bestride the narrow world like a Colossus," and his defeated enemies could only join voice with Cassius in saying that "the fault...
...more radical step that no court has ever taken in a presidential election. A new election would mean deciding who could vote--all voters, or just those who turned out on Election Day. It would also raise thorny issues such as how to prevent those who voted for Nader from switching now. And perhaps most unsettling, it would start up the presidential race again--complete with candidates campaigning and a blizzard of television commercials...
...have always enjoyed TIME because your articles are complete and cover many aspects of the issues. However, I was disappointed to see a picture of Vice President Al Gore and Governor George W. Bush on your cover with the title THE CHOICE. To fail to include Ralph Nader and Pat Buchanan among the presidential candidates was against the principles of democracy. There was a variety of choices for President, not just two. DAN SVIRSKY Indianapolis...
...Liberals and the Conservatives are the closest correlates to the American Democratic and Republican parties respectively. The NDP, led by Alexa McDonough, is Canada's socialist party--Nader's Green Party looks centrist in comparison...
...wrote many years ago. Is that it? Or are we one nation, so intricately balanced in its impulses, so symmetrically cracked down the middle, that we cannot decide whether we are compassionate conservatives or fascist bleeding hearts? It's not that George Wallace was right long ago, and Ralph Nader is correct now in asserting that there's not a dime's worth of difference between a Democrat and a Republican. Allowing for inflation, there's several dollars' worth...