Ever wonder why your favorite fringe presidential candidates are being ignored by your nightly news election coverage? According to the executive director of the World Humanitarian Peace and Ecology Movement, Joseph Raglione, blame Big Oil corporations.
Raglione said, the only presidential candidates who refused to co-operate with Cap and Trade, are Mike Gravel and Ron Paul. They both believe in taxing the polluters directly. Mysteriously, both have been cut out of the corporate controlled media spotlight. Dun dun duunnnnnnnnn!
Senators Mike Gravel and Ron Paul are not listed as having accepted money from the Oil corporations, but if you follow the oil money at the Oil Change International website, you can see a fun little graphic detailing how all the other presidential candidates accepted money.
So that’s why Grandpa Gravel and Popular Paul are being ignored. The well-paid media is not reporting on these two presidential candidates because they won’t play ball with the oil tycoons. Ah, well, maybe a sense of decency and an intact moral compass is more valuable than being president of United States.
Despite not officially declaring his run for the Green Party nomination for president, Nader did well on Super Tuesday, February 5.
Nader had a landslide victory in California where he won with 61 percent, 17,065 votes, in nearly complete returns. Democrat turned Green Party member last year Cynthia McKinney had 7,178, or 26 percent of the 30,000 votes cast.
Greens voted in three other states on Tuesday where the party’s ballot status qualifies it to hold primaries:
In Illinois, where Nader was not on the ballot, nearly complete returns had McKinney leading a four-candidate field with 57 percent of the vote.In Arkansas, where Nader was not on the ballot, early returns suggested that the majority of votes were cast for an uncommitted delegate slate. McKinney ran second with 22 percent.Statewide results from Massachusetts were not yet available Wednesday afternoon. But results from some cities had Nader running slightly ahead of McKinney.”
Nader indicated last week that he was considering making another run for the presidency in 2008, especially if New York Senator Hillary Clinton is the Democratic nominee.
Oooooh! He’s gunning for you, Hil. Quick, check out the tapes of Al Gore’s 2000 election loss to train for the fight. Because, you know Nader: he’s watching us all with the eye of the tiger…
The Draft Bloomberg committee, started by Unity08 co-founders Doug Bailey and Gerald Rafshoon, posted a new Web video warning Bloomberg that he has 10 days to officially put himself in the presidential race as a third-party candidate.
The video features a digital clock running down–as seen on Fox Network show “24,” the ticking of a time bomb and footage of an explosion, presumably a terrorist attack. It urges people to sign the petition at DraftBloomberg.com. It was so dramatic I was one terrorist explosion away from adding my electronic signature to the petition in virtual support of the billionaire mayor.
What’s the rush? “With ballot access laws in several states requiring early action, time is running out,” the committee’s press release stated. “Virtually any effort to qualify for the Texas ballot, for example, must begin the day after the Texas primary on March 4.”
According to Bailey, the decision has to be made in this time frame to get out in front of the Lone Star State primary, which is expected to generate a huge turnout and potentially decide the Democratic contest.
Well no amount of flashy Adobe Premier Elements is going to persuade Bloomberg to make a hasty decision. The NYC mayor may not decide until May whether to run for president, according to associates.