(Picture of Ralph Nader announcing his candidacy in 2020)
Happy March everybody. I hope the Leap Year didn't make you too mixed up.
The Orioles started playing Spring Training games the other day. With that brought on our annual "Promising Oriole pitcher with a mysterious injury in March" announcement that I know we've all been waiting for.
Thats right, Troy "Old Blood and Guts" Patton has come down with a shoulder injury that he has been suffering from for the last 4 months. This is great for the O's, since they traded for him THREE months ago. Peter Angelos makes his players go through a day long physical before they join the team. So they can afford to do a colonoscopy, but can't bother too look at a guys shoulder that happen to be torn?
This spring also brought us another almost annual disappointing announcement. Ralph Nader will be running for President for a 4th time in 2008! America's favorite 74 year old pest.
He thinks America may finally be crazy enough for a liberal presidency. Seat belts on planes weren't enough, he wants to be your next leader of the free world!
I think he has finally gone senile though. According to this interview with the Village Voice, one of his campaign promises is impeaching George Bush and Dick Cheney.
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Village Voice: Do you still think impeachment is worth pursuing?
Ralph: Of course. We have two outlaws in the White House, recidivists, who have committed more impeachable offenses, regularly and daily, than any presidency in history. And they get away with it. It’s such an upside-down world. These guys have violated the FISA Act repeatedly, surveillance without a judicial warrant, that’s a felony. That’s a five-year maximum jail term. They do it regularly. Now they want to change the law so they can get away with it. The systemic torture, the violation of federal law as well as the Geneva Convention, a criminal, unconstitutional war in Iraq. We’ve got arrests of thousands of people without charges, throwing them in jail without lawyer. In the U.S., we’re talking about. And yet Chairman Rep. John Conyers of the House Judiciary Committee refuses to even have a hearing, never mind an impeachment inquiry. And that’s where we’re at. We’re basically on the way to demonstrating that presidents can systemically violate the constitution and the laws of the land an get away with it
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Um, "Earth to Ralph!" You do realize that Bush and Cheney won't be in power anymore after this election, right? Making one of your campaign pledges that Bush and Cheney will be out of office is the equivalent of promising on New Year's Eve 2008 that the next day will be 2009. Its going to happen already. Get that hanging chad out of your brain.
I wouldn't mind seeing him vs Dennis Kucinich in an over the top battle royale for sanity at WrestleMania. (Love how it all ties together)
Okay everyone, keep on rockin'!
