Afterword: the Ralph Nader lesson

Daily Kos by Mike Stark | Jul. 9, 2008 (Opinion)

So why did I create the group? Why risk damaging Barack Obama's candidacy and hard-earned image of change-agent? After all, if I was convinced the prospects of success were zero, why bother organizing 22,000 people? If no good can come from the venture, why venture?

I think the questions are fair and I'm going to do my best to answer them.

And I'm going to answer the question by invoking Ralph Nader. Full Story »

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Topics: Presidential Election 2008, Campaign Reform, Obama Administration, Blogs
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Posted by: Posted by Chris Finnie - Jul 11, 2008 - 10:22 AM PDT
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 by Chris Finnie - Oct. 1, 2008

Not good journalism exactly, but still a pretty interesting piece. This movement has received a fair amount of press attention. So it's interesting to get an inside look at why it started from the guy who did it. It's also a somewhat inspiring story of citizen activism from a guy who decided his government should be accountable and that he could do something about it.

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