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• Friday, February 29, 2008 10:27 AM

  Salon and Paritsan Hackery

  I didn't start reading Salon until after the last election season, so I have been surprised to find it such a slave of the Democratic spin cycle. I went to a Nader rally in San Francisco in 2004, and he directed his attacks at both sides equally. Outside, a group of Democratic picketers insulted people as they walked and all in all, acted like stormtroopers.

  If you'll recall, our Democratic candidate in that race had not only voted for the war in Iraq, he had been calling for the invasion since 1998. In 2000, Nader was the Green Party candidate, a position I think unlikely if he had Republican backing. In 2004, the Green Party made an agreement with the Democrats to not run anyone seriously. The Democrats made headlines during that cycle by using influence and large coffers to keep the third party candidate off the voting sheets, though I saw no mention of that when Conason was mocking Nader for getting less than a percentage point of the vote. How could he have gotten more, when the Democrats circumvented the democratic process to stifle his candidacy.

  One of the biggest criticisms G.W. Bush had of John Kerry, was that there was no difference in their platforms. Kerry offered no solution to the Iraq mess, except that he would ask Europe and NATO to get more involved.

  The last two years show that the Democratic party has not changed its stripe. It is not the anti-war party, it is not the people's party-- it is the stay relevant at all costs party.

  This article was partisan hackery.

  —omooex Read omooex's other letters
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