Naderites rally in Denver

The 15\% threshold is being used to exclude independent and third party candidates outside the two party duopoly. We want open debates, and media coverage of candidates other than Obama & McCain. End the arbitrary criteria that is serving only the interests of the corporate candidates, not the best interests of the people. Stop marginalizing and censoring Nader. Include third party candidates in debates, so people can learn more about their platforms.
Pacifica Radio, for instance, is currently placating to the mainstream, corporate candidates while covering the Democratic corporate convention, and will do the same next week for the Republican convention. At the same time,the so-called "progressive/alternative" media completely ignores the Nader campaign which really offers a true alternative.-www.votenader.org

Ralph is irrelevant.

Why won't the REP-DEM Monopoly let Nader debate? If Nader is as horrible as the Media portraits him to be a debate would end his career ! If he has better plans and policies than the REPS&DEMS then America will benefit from hearing him debate !!! What are they afraid of ??? I have read Nader's platform, and even thought I don't Agree 100%, He sounds much better than what the GOP & DNC have been forcing on America for the last 100 years !! If we pick another REP or DEM we will never have change! I have been lied to for too long by the REPS&DEMS!!!

If Ralph was irrelevant, you wouldn't have read the article, or posted a comment on the article, for that matter!

I think what you mean to say is that Ralph is running for President in a rigged system. The corporate-controlled mainstream media has given the Nader campaign very little, if any, coverage. Combine that with the fact that the corporate run commission that runs the debates requires 15% polling to get him in the debates.

Do yourself a favor, and look at the issues: www.votenader.org/issues

The amount of money being donated to the two parties has SKYROCKETED since the 70s. The number of corporate lobbyists have SKYROCKETED. The only way ordinary people are going to be able to have a say in politics is if they BREAK from the two parties. Nader's campaign is a rallying call to people everywhere who want real change, who want to send a powerful message to the two parties and their corporate backers that they can't ignore the issues dear to working people. Nader's candidacy and every vote he gets popularizes the idea that the two parties are completely bought off and it's high time to build an alternative political party that represents the millions of people in this country who are getting left behind by corporate america's refusal to invest in anything but their profit margins.

There has been a complete media blackout of Nader's campaign. He is the only candidate addressing the necessary CHANGE and reform this country desperately needs in factual detail. His career is filled with positive progressive action, not with rhetoric. The Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act, Freedom of Information Act, OSHA, and innumerable other bills that Americans benefit from are a direct result of Ralph Nader and his supporters efforts. In my mind he is the 1st Citizen of this country, and should be treated with respect, not derided by the media. He has always worked to protect and inform people, and his candidacy's platform continues this stance. This country will continue to be in perpetual war unless we embrace a clean, energy independent future. The war in Iraq, the threat of war in Iran, the instability soon to ensue in Pakistan, are all an outgrowth of the oil economy. Real Change is based in Real Integrity.

It's not the REPS & DEMS that are afraid of Ralph, but the corporate run system. Money talks. Washington is completely in bed no matter who resides over it. Anyone with half a brain sees it, but we're all to consumed or scared to think about doing anything about it. What did Clinton really do for this Country? Reside over a stock bubble that created false surpluses? Sure the Bush Administration has been a complete disaster, but most of the bad ecomonic policies that enrich the few were in play before Bush came along. Want status quo, vote for either McCain or Obama. Want real change, consider Nadar. At least his ideas. They need to be presented to the public. America is for Americans, not the corporate elete!

Some ignorant DEMS and REPS say that Nader is irrelevant, but we'll just have to wait and see.

Ralph Nader is a GIANT of a man, unequaled by any man on the planet. If everyone is so depressed about the world, then why not vote for the one man who will make things better? To stand in front of him is to feel small. Who can compare to his greatness? The lesser of evils argument is going to take us all to hell. Lesser of evils is what created Bagram and Guantanamo, and the excuse for torture. Lesser of evils equals choice of evils, a philosophical coup for the Death Cultists who run our country and our world. Ralph Nader is the closest thing to Thomas Paine I have ever come across, and no one is clearer on what democracy is than Thomas Paine. I would give my life for Ralph Nader, and he is truly a man worth following in every way.