[Noah Baron mulls a protest vote. See below for Xavier Sala-i-Martin's thoughts on the matter. -Ed.]
Over the past weeks/months I’ve been thinking a lot about Ralph Nader and his candidacy. The following is an essay I wrote when I was really pissed off at the Democratic Party, and had momentarily forgotten that the Republican Party exists and pisses me off even more. Basically, do not necessarily take the following post as an indication that I will actually be voting for Ralph Nader but rather as part of an inner dialogue and my personal decision-making process.
At the time of writing this preface, my actual vote is probably for Barack Obama, but I am not entirely sure quite yet. My vote will depend on the following factors: (1) how much I hate Sarah Palin/John McCain/The Republican Party on election day/whenever I send in my absentee ballot; (2) how frustrated I am feeling with the Democratic Party; (3) whether or not I actually get an absentee ballot/whether it gets here on time.
Fellow Columbians, I have something to confess: this November, I will probably not be voting for Barack Obama. I will, instead, be voting for Ralph Nader.
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Hillary Clinton is Ruining the Democratic Party
By: Ginia Sweeney at 5:49 pm
Case in point:
1. Hillary Clinton on calls for her to drop out of the race.
“My husband did not wrap up the nomination in 1992 until he won the California primary somewhere in the middle of June, right? We all remember Bobby Kennedy was assassinated in June in California. I don’t understand it.
Great, Hill. So I guess we shouldn’t vote for Obama because he might be assassinated! Good timing, too, for the Kennedy family.
2. Clinton asserts that the reason she hasn’t secured the nomination already is sexism. A May 19 WaPo article says:
In an interview after church services in Bowling Green on Sunday, Clinton for the first time addressed what women have been talking about for months, what she refers to as the “sexist” treatment she has endured at the hands of the pundits, media and others.
Compared to racism, she says:
The manifestation of some of the sexism that has gone on in this campaign is somehow more respectable, or at least more accepted,
Great. When you’re ready to stop whining and driving a stake through our party, let us know, Hillary.
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Today in Opinion: Dumb Dems, Blockheaded Bacchanal
By: Armin Rosen at 11:31 am
It’s been little reported-upon that the CU Dems have finally, yet quietly, left the rails. Well, “left the rails” is probably the wrong choice of words here: It’s probably more like “left its moderate base behind in a hail-Mary bid for left-wing activist support under the guise of partisan activism.” Because in the last week or so, the Dems have gone from partisan appendage to thinly-disguised ISO co-affiliate–although I suspect (and genuinely hope) that the switch has more to do with the cynical realities of campus politics than with the views of the Dems e-board.
The most egregious evidence of this (aside from their opportunistic support for the hunger strike) was the Dems “flag-washing” event and its accompanying op/ed from media director Jonathan Backer (linked above), which included this line:
Over the past five years, the United States has exposed its flag to undignified associations. The Iraq War has claimed the lives of over 4,000 American soldiers and over one million Iraqi civilians.
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