Our Grandchildren might enjoy the respectability we once sort of enjoyed as Americans in the world at large. I'm afraid that it's been hosed up for us for at least a couple of generations to come.

Thanks a lot President Pretzel Logic.

and viscerally I know that I should be grateful for all the good, consumer/ordinary citizen oriented things he's done over the past several decades, but I have to say, thanks again, Ralph!!!!

Note

I do not believe that as a Nader voter you should have done anything other than voted your conscience, if you were (and still are) passionate about Ralph Nader as a presidential candidate, that's great. But I believe that during the last presidential election cycle there was a point that Nader should have taken a good look at the Bush governorship/record in Texas and made the intuitive leap about what might happen with him in the White House. There were plenty of concessions Nader could have gotten from the democratic leadership had he played his cards right and been a viable candidate in 2004 or 2008, or at least been so influential that he would be a "kingmaker". Now no one wants to take his calls, and that's sad because Ralph Nader really is a good man, he just tilted at the right windmill at the wrong time in history.