Norman Soloman’s Posts

• Green Thumbs-Down

  Don't gamble with your vote in 2004 0

  Posted 6 years, 1 month ago

  

  Is Ralph ready to run?

  Photo: Nader 2000.

  Activists have plenty of good reasons to challenge the Democratic Party operatives who focus on election strategy while routinely betraying progressive ideals. Unfortunately, the national Green Party now shows appreciable signs of the reverse problem -- focusing on admirable ideals without plausible strategy. If Ralph Nader runs for president next year, as now appears quite likely, this recurring exercise would amount to a Green Party crutch that, ironically, could do more to hobble the party than help it.

  It's impossible to know whether… Read More

• Field of Greens

  Greens plan to field a presidential candidate in 2004 -- consequences be damned 0

  Posted 6 years, 3 months ago

  For the 2004 presidential race, the Green die is cast.

  "The Green Party emerged from a national meeting ... increasingly certain that it will run a presidential candidate in next year's election, all but settling a debate within the group over how it should approach the 2004 contest," the Washington Post reported on July 21. The Green Party promptly put out a news release declaring that Greens "affirmed the party's intention to run candidates for president and vice president of the United States in 2004."

  

  That release quoted a national party co-chair. "This meeting… Read More

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