Good Lord, Ralph Nader is running for president again, and as far as I can tell, he’s doing it because he’s kind of gone from being a really important consumer advocate and progressive politico into a kind of crazy and angry old man. Kind of sad, really.
I think he’s right when he says “if Democrats can’t landslide the Republicans this year, they ought to just wrap up, close down, emerge in a different form.” But I also think that Obama is right when he says that Nader is an egomaniac and “My sense is that Mr.. Nader is somebody who, if you don’t listen and adopt all of his policies, thinks you’re not substantive.”