Independent Presidential candidate Ralph Nader teams up with the Obama Girl in a mock sitcom.
“The Ralph Nader and Obama Girl” show, launched yesterday on YouTube, is set in a tiny office shared by the wealthy philanthropist and the raven-haired, Barack Obama-obsessed beauty. In the first webisode, Nader and Obama Girl talk about how he has been excluded from the presidential debates.
Nader calls his friend, former Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura, who attributed his own upset win to being allowed into the gubernatorial debates. Ventura said he was lagging in the polls by more than 10 points but surged after the debates.
Source: Ralph Nader hopes Obama Girl helps his cause
In the webisode, Ralph Nader brings out some good points about the corporate sponsorship of Presidential debates and the exclusion of third party and independent candidates which he also discussed in a September 25, 2008 op-ed piece in USA Today:
Two decades ago, the Republicrats hijacked our presidential debates from the League of Women Voters and replaced the stewards of the one public debate that is watched by tens of millions with a two-party citadel run by a couple of party cronies. Walter Cronkite, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and the league, respectively, call the commission debates “unconscionable fraud,” “mockery” and “charades.”
This private commission, funded by large corporations that my running mate, Matt Gonzalez, and I have gone after for years, says you have to be at 15% in five undisclosed stealth polls by five stealth media conglomerates that have shut us out all campaign.
The Catch-22 threshold suffocates third parties and their fresh ideas. If Minnesota did the same, Jesse Ventura never would have jumped from single digits to governor.
All six candidates who are on enough state ballots to win the election should be allowed to debate. A majority of Americans in a 2004 Zogby poll agree with that idea.
Even all 65 ranked teams at the NCAA tournament get a chance at the Final Four. Rationing debates rations voter choice.
Source: USA Today Opposing View - Ralph Nader
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Video: The Obama Girl and Ralph Nader Show
