PRESS
RELEASE from Nader for President 2008
November 5, 2008
Nader Congratulates Obama on Campaign Victory
Independent
candidate for President and Vice President, Ralph Nader and Matt
Gonzalez, congratulated Senator Barack Obama on his decisive victory
today to succeed the notorious regime of George W. Bush.
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Senator Obama led a campaign of tactical brilliance that appears to be
bereft of specific mandates. It is up to an aroused citizenry to
organize behind these mandates which we were privileged to advance.
These progressive mandates (living wage, Medicare for all, and a just
foreign policy, and many more) reflect majority support and our long
overdue redirections and reforms in our country.
Senator Obama will be President-elect Obama soon to preside over what
our founders described as a representative government under our
Constitution. Thomas Jefferson once said that the function of
representative government is to "curb the excesses of the monied
interests." The corporate dominated government that Senator Obama
inherits includes what President Dwight Eisenhower cautioned the nation
against in his farewell address -- the military industrial complex. It
includes many other priorities entrenched by "the monied interests," or
global corporations, to drain and strip-mine the necessities and
deserved justice long denied to so many Americans in their various
roles.
Such challenges to apply available solutions to stagnant injustices and
deprivations require a transforming leader who speaks truth with
democratic power to falsehood and plutocratic power. This in turn
demands a deliberate, thoughtful and challenging personality.
The Nader/Gonzalez campaign joins other Americans in wishing you well
in the White House. We will remain alert to opportunities that advance
those final words of the pledge of allegiance -- "with liberty and
justice for all."