Word: naderism
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Teamsters president James P. Hoffa thinks that Ralph Nader and Pat Buchanan should be included in the fall presidential debates. Good idea...
Normally, you would not invite Nader, Hoffa and Buchanan to the same dinner party. But anti-globalization makes strange bedfellows, and the enemy of my enemy is my friend. What unites the three now, in Hoffa's mind anyway, is the sullen desperation of the excluded. Excluded from what? The festival of the Nasdaq, the great gated community of the Bobos, the money fair. Teamster Hoffa all but endorses the Green Party's Nader as a friend of American labor and an enemy of the NAFTA, GATT, and normalization of relations with China. Buchanan, says Hoffa, is good on globalization...
...Nader and Buchanan - each a throwback to '60s configurations, the one a countercultural enviro-saint and the other an old Nixon gunslinger, the two now, oddly, working the same side of the economic street - would bring authenticity, a depth and passion of thought, to what will otherwise be dimensionless debates, turning, as in the past, upon such fatuities as "I paid for this microphone!" and "Where's the beef...
...even the '70s remember an exodus to Washington, D.C. every June, as newly-minted Harvard B.A.'s flocked to Capitol Hill and various government agencies. The College was a major conduit for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), while public figures as varied as John F. Kennedy '40 and Ralph Nader (Harvard Law, 1958) surrounded themselves with bright, hopeful recent graduates...
...politicians," Nader told the crowd in May. "And if you can't buy them, you rent them on the installment plan...