{"id":1346,"date":"2008-02-03T14:14:28","date_gmt":"2008-02-03T14:14:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2008\/02\/03\/clearly-ralph-nader-is-working\/"},"modified":"2008-02-03T14:14:28","modified_gmt":"2008-02-03T14:14:28","slug":"clearly-ralph-nader-is-working","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/03\/clearly-ralph-nader-is-working\/","title":{"rendered":"Clearly, Ralph Nader is Working for the Republicans"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Ralph Nader has formed a presidential exploratory committee and said he will launch another presidential run if he believes he can raise enough money to appear on most state ballots in the fall. &#8230;&#8230;now with John Edwards also out of the race, Nader said he feels his candidacy is more urgent than ever.&#8221;When Kucinich threw in the towel, now you have Edwards gone &#8212; who&#8217;s going to carry the torch of democratic populism against the relentless domination of our government&#8221; by &#8220;powerful corporations,&#8221; he told ABC.&#8221;You can&#8217;t just brush these issues to the side because the candidates are ignoring them.&#8221; &#8230;Responding to charges that he was a &#8220;spoiler&#8221; who may have cost Al Gore a presidential victory in 2000, Nader said the major candidates &#8220;represent parties that spoil our electoral system and our government.&#8221;[From Newsmax.com]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ralph Nader has formed a presidential exploratory committee and said he will launch another presidential run if he believes he can raise enough money to appear on most state ballots in the fall. &#8230;&#8230;now with John Edwards also out of the race, Nader said he feels his candidacy is more urgent than ever.&#8221;When Kucinich threw &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/03\/clearly-ralph-nader-is-working\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Clearly, Ralph Nader is Working for the Republicans<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[33],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-lI","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1346"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}