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virtually no differences between Bush and Gore.
So he didn't say "no difference"?
MR. NADER: Well, as I said, Barney Frank often speaks faster than his mind. His premise is wrong. I didn't say there are no differences. I said there are few major differences. And I also say that in the area of corporate power, there are very few differences. Whether it's WTO, NAFTA, whether it's repealing restrictive labor laws that keep tens of millions of workers from being able to organize trade unions in places like Wal-Mart, whether it's real public financing of public campaigns, whether it's cracking down on corporate fraud on consumers and whether it's ending corporate welfare in hundreds of billions of dollars siphoned off from middle-class taxpayers and subsidies, handouts, what are the differences? The military budget is increasing. If you look at each government department -- that's the way I like to look at it -- Defense Department, State Department, Treasury, Federal Reserve, the regulatory agencies, Department of Commerce, Department of Labor -- keep going. There are very few differences depending on who is in the White House, Republican, Democrat.
There's another example of how wrong you were...lets go for more!
MR. RUSSERT: On the issue of gay rights -- where is Ralph Nader on gay rights? Is he for gay marriage?
MR. NADER: Way ahead of Al Gore.
MR. RUSSERT: Is he for gay marriage?
MR. NADER: Yes. Civil union and equal rights, equal responsibility.
MR. RUSSERT: Gay adoption?
MR. NADER: Yes.
MR. RUSSERT: So are you closer to Al Gore or George W. Bush?
MR. NADER: No, way ahead of Al Gore. The point is that we have to have a basic policy in this country of equal rights, equal responsibilities regardless of race, gender, sexual preference.
MR. RUSSERT: So the government should recognize gay unions or gay marriages?
MR. NADER: Yes. It's really interesting. Gay people want to serve in the military, they want to engage in civil union or marriage and they want to adopt kids. If they weren't gay, people would say, "Well, that's really good to do."
MR. RUSSERT: Abortion, closer to Al Gore or George W. Bush? Al Gore says "No restrictions on abortion, including so-called partial-birth abortion." George W. Bush says, "No, we should ban all abortions."
MR. NADER: George W. Bush doesn't believe it, nor do the Republicans. They would destroy their party.
MR. RUSSERT: Are you closer to Al Gore or George Bush?
MR. NADER: Well, I don't like to say I'm closer to one or the other. I just don't believe government should tell a woman that she either has to have a child or doesn't have to have a child. We've seen both in the world.
OHHHHHHHH yeah...what a Repuke scumbag! :eyes:
MR. RUSSERT: You were one of the few liberals to say that you would have voted to impeach and convict Bill Clinton. Why?
MR. NADER: Well, he—first, he disgraced the office and dragged the country through it for a year. He could have owned up to it. He stole a year of journalism from the American people. Think of all the stories about things going on in this country that never made it on the news. And then he lied about it. I mean, what's the standard? In fact, you thought he was gone in a few days, I remember you saying. And lot of what—Sam Donaldson thought he was gone. MR. RUSSERT: No, I was quoting his advisers. I don't offer opinions. I was reporting.
MR. NADER: You were predicting.
MR. RUSSERT: I was reporting.
MR. NADER: Yeah, yeah. OK.
MR. RUSSERT: Reporting. Big difference.
Challenges Clinton in terms that are lucid and fair, and even slaps Tim Russert down a peg.
And the rest is Barney Frank...
Thanks for nothing! :hi:
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