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wyldwolf

(43,867 posts)
Thu Jul 3, 2014, 07:34 PM Jul 2014

Ralph Nader: Obama should be impeached

I missed this the first time around:

When it comes to the current president, Nader said that Obama has violated the Constitution on several occasions and should be impeached.

“Oh, most definitely,” Nader said when asked if Congress should bring forward articles of impeachment against Obama. “The reason why Congress doesn’t want to do it is because it’s abdicated its own responsibility under the Constitution.”

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/power-players-abc-news/ralph-naders-america-impeach-obama-decriminalize-drugs-libertarians-progressives-unite-110418813.html

http://crooksandliars.com/2014/04/ralph-nader-wants-obama-impeached

http://crooksandliars.com/2014/04/ralph-nader-wants-obama-impeached

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Cha

(297,298 posts)
2. Nader's an attentionwhore and a liar.. and well.. like I said before.. fuck 'im.. teabagger wannabe
Thu Jul 3, 2014, 07:42 PM
Jul 2014

Al Carroll

(113 posts)
6. Deliberately marginalized is not the same as irrelevant
Thu Jul 3, 2014, 07:49 PM
Jul 2014

The DLC kept him excluded from the 2000 campaign and Democratic partisans have demonized him for Gore's failure to run a good campaign ever since.

leftstreet

(36,108 posts)
7. He's right about Libya. But it doesn't really matter
Thu Jul 3, 2014, 07:54 PM
Jul 2014
Nader said the president's use of military force in Libya has been his most "egregious violation of the Constitution."


As for 'impeachment,' meh. They all violate the Constitution in deference to the military contractors, and they'll continue to do so. Once the Democrats took Bush criminal investigations off the table, what difference does it make?

Erich Bloodaxe BSN

(14,733 posts)
9. I don't think Libya was the most egregious.
Thu Jul 3, 2014, 08:17 PM
Jul 2014

I think sweeping the Bush cabal's war crimes under the rug would get that 'honor'.

And I think the rot set in with Nixon's pardon. Most of W's cronies were Nixon era cold war retreads, with a few younger useful idiots thrown in the mix.

BillZBubb

(10,650 posts)
8. Yeah, ralphie. Just like bush and Gore being exactly the same...
Thu Jul 3, 2014, 08:02 PM
Jul 2014

Your political insight has proven to be so insightful and beneficial to us all. We really should listen to you more often.

Nader is like a neocon. He has been totally discredited, yet he keeps spouting off on things disastrous to his supposed goals.

Fred Sanders

(23,946 posts)
10. He is actually right about that, extrajudicial killings are not legal, but Congress does not care.
Thu Jul 3, 2014, 09:12 PM
Jul 2014

And by Congress I mean Congress, not Republicans only.

madinmaryland

(64,933 posts)
11. Who is this Ralph Nader guy? Surely it is not the guy who drove a bus in NYC and lived
Thu Jul 3, 2014, 09:36 PM
Jul 2014

next to a guy who worked in the sewers.


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