Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Enough To Make You Ralph...

Tom Toles, editorial cartoonist at the Washington Post sums it up nicely (the caption reads: "Change and Experience: The ability to change an election outcome and the experience of having done it"):



Stuart Carlson and Patrick Oliphant were pretty good, too:

And the Harold Myerson, writing for the Washington Post, compares Ralph to Fidel but only in the narcissistic sense. An excerpt:

"Nader and Castro do come together on the ground where ego meets history. Nader said Sunday that he was running again partly in reaction to the Democrats' efforts four years ago to keep his name off the ballot in some states. This combination of principle and grudge match seems Fidelistic to a fault. Just as the revolution was Fidel, to be entrusted to no others, so the banners of American democracy and progressivism are Ralph, no matter if a number of his positions are being articulated by the likely Democratic nominee. The cause is Nader's alone; accept no substitutions.

Like Fidel Castro, Ralph Nader is not only in love with but hears history speaking through his own voice."

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