"He Says One Thing And Does Another": Ralph Nader Reviews Obama's State of the Union Speech

[@scottsway]

speaking truth to power as always! Thank you Mr Nadar!

[@mozpiano2]

This is brilliant

[@urbanverificationist]

Complete repeal of Taft-Hartley, should be the position that labor and the broad left rallies around today. It remains the best hope for labor to become once more a powerful and progressive force in American life. It should be an important part of the 2012 elections.

[@nteowl2025]

Didn't realize Democracy Now! still existed after this masterpiece.

[@SaltyFloridian]

This was just precious.

[@LoveIsNotNotLove]

Someone should make a RALPH NADER app, so that the people, voters and Congresspersons can listen to his profound commentary with his encyclopedic research on the background of what he says, because He is sort of, in many ways: America's conscience, as a lawyer and writer on these matters. Hmm, */thinking.. maybe, we can download his new book, onto our iphones and android phones and slates to read in Kindle? ..It has a very interesting title. I luv how he cuts to the chase! thxu Amy G; good job!

[@benekastah]

I'm a libertarian, but I would absolutely vote for Nader over any establishment candidate.

[@votejoiner]

some of these people think freedom comes without responsibility

[@cbysmith]

As much as I hate labels because they can never capture the full reality, I would have to consider myself a progressive in many ways...but I too am casting my vote for Ron Paul in the Ohio primary. Like both Nader and Kucinich, congressman RP does speak the truth and stands with the people on issues of importance. Ideologically, they may have some vast differences, but in support of the people, I believe that they are united.

[@northstar789]

Go Ralph! The Occupy movement has become more relevant than voting.

[@YourCritic]

I know the phrase, "This man should be president" gets thrown about all over the place, especially here on youtube, but Ralph Nader is the one and only person who I think would be fit for the job. It's a shame most Americans are so ignorant so there's no way he would ever be elected. Yet his track record speaks for itself. He's been fighting for justice and people's rights since 1959 - he says what he means, and means what he says.

[@kawahawk76]

Loved this book, almost on par with his Breaking Through Power, which I highly recommend.

[@landlogger]

She doesn't mention Ron paul. shame on you Amy.

[@ModernPatriotsUnited]

I wonder if the "Corruption Task Force" has anything to do with enforcement of ACTA.

[@PierzStyx]

Raising the minimum wage would be a HORRIBLE IDEA. You want more inflation? Make everything cost more by making businesses pay more, thus driving up costs of everything in order to maintain profits. Give us all more dollars that are worth less in value. Ridiculous.

[@bodryn]

@Textynn I tend to agree; FYI the word is "disingenuous" which is a really neat word.

[@subwaysinger]

@Scarlet0Darkstar if you know anything about these two men, you'd know their politics couldn't be any further apart. Nader is the greatest consumer, humanitarian and environmental advocate of our time. Ron Paul subscribes to a Lord of the Flies form of governance. Survival of the fittest. Nader would never run with this man. Nader knows there are ample resources to go around. Paul believes those resources are limited, so grab what you can. Big difference.

[@ElvinAtTheMovies]

I considered Ron Paul, Dennis Kucinish, Bernie Sander and Ralph Nader as the last remaining patriotic public servants.

[@bodryn]

@paulcoonan Yes, and these out of court settlements are always confidential, and sort of swept under the rug; they ought to be called on the carpet.

[@rolgorevene]

you are also free to be as successfull as you possibly can be. you must be a horrible person if you would be left alone to "die in the gutter". how could you not have any friends, family, local community or charities willing to help you out?

[@tobyradenbaugh8965]

RALPH RULES A GREAT AMERICAN HERO

[@ObeseChess]

@spamllpitdept That would kick ASS.

[@Scarlet0Darkstar]

@asphyxiafeeling Oo oo! Ron Paul / Ralph Nader ticket, every honesty covered, who could refuse that?

[@brewers2321]

Hey wasn't that Holder, the one that headed the fast and furious gun running scandal that he put in charge? lol

[@gambit1357]

Why dont they ever mention Ron Paul??

[@Kortalh]

If you're a progressive, don't vote for Ron Paul. Vote for Rocky Anderson.

[@MrEveryman76]

I, as a progressive, am ready to send the biggest "FU Washington!" message I can, by voting Ron Paul. Thank you. That is all.

[@pdowg2020]

And she was all 6's and 7's!

[@jimdc75]

Actually he thinks that the church and charity should take care of the sick. You know, charity...giving your own money without the government telling you to. Guess that leaves you out huh?

[@requiemforamerica8432]

(contd 2) but to simply continue to borrow and spend is again NOT the solution it's like saying a 5000 lb man should continue to eat as he has been eating before, since dieting is too hard for him. basically the ballooning debt crisis have made most of the developed world's economies so sick inside, that we have reached a point where nothing will work but a HUGE painful overhaul - there is absolutely no way to avoid pain at this point, no matter which way you turn.

[@vernacularsnoop]

Nader is spot-on, assuming that he wasn't saying people should stay home, but that they should get organized outside the corporate-sponsored establishment parties and vote Green. What I'm wondering now is, what is Nader's response to Jill Stein's People's State of the Union, which is posted at Jill Stein dot org?

[@pjamesbda]

This is exactly the point we've been struggling with since Obama came into office. He "says" everything that needs to be said, and then does nothing else to make it so. What is the point of identifying the problem...and then saying to Congress..."NOW, PASS legislation that will make these changes!!" ..??? ...When we all know damn well it is just a noise with no consequences. We ALL know this issues, put it is the POWER structures that must be shaken to their core...he's not gonna do it!

[@0150Tricia]

When Obama bailed out the banks - I was done with him. I realized his promises were a fraud.

[@bodryn]

@PierzStyx Without demand, supply is fruitless. This was the big fallacy of "supply side economics". Demand can only happen if people have money to buy. People at the top are not investing in business much at all, because of low demand.

[@JSBselvas]

good stuff, but Nader needs to get control of that blinky-eye-thing going on there.

[@itsmc]

@WikeddTung @Scarlet0Darkstar Ralph Nader says: “Libertarians like Ron Paul are on our side on civil liberties. They’re on our side against the military-industrial complex. They’re on our side against Wall Street. They’re on our side for investor rights. That’s a foundational convergence,” he exhorts. “It’s not just itty-bitty stuff.”

[@MotherEarthswarrior]

The Speaker may speak, but his words have no VALUE.

[@bodryn]

@DulciYodel Seems to me Nader is still good at gathering all the facts. If you say he isn't, you ought to specify which, rather than generalize.

[@tobynsaunders]

It would be nice to hear Nader acknowledge that Dem policies are less evil than Republican policies, for once.

[@iTellYouNoLie]

on the foreign policy, and civil liberties, they have somewhere to go, they can register republican and get Ron Paul the nomination. then you get at least half of your agenda through.

[@goemon9378]

wish nader would run

[@urbanverificationist]

If the labor movement were as powerful in the Southern “right to work” states alone as unions with all their losses remain in the Northern union shop states, the number of workers in unions would probably double and the political power of the Republican right in Congress and in Southern state legislatures would be broken.

[@bodryn]

@CurtHowland You are simply wrong on this issue: When Standard Oil dominated the oil industry in the late 1800's, it took Teddy Roosevelt to bust up the trusts and make real competition possible. It takes government regulation to keep corporations from becoming monopolies, regulation to prohibit price fixing. Government is the only chance the PEOPLE have to control business excesses, like poisoning people's water in Colorado and Wyoming with fracking.

[@bodryn]

@MrJoeystockdale If government goes, somebody else comes in to fill up the vacuum. Somebody who might do bad things that hurt people. Like when fracking causes pollution of aquifers and landowners end up with cancer in the US. Yes, I've been hearing personal reports on things like this.

[@moonjp]

@karmagal they actually were thinking of forming a coalition together.

[@bodryn]

@urcritic If he had run for president in around 1972 or so, he might have gone a long way. After the 1980's, the corporate media started getting too much traction and he couldn't have gotten very far anymore.

[@requiemforamerica8432]

it's the unsustainable debts that are destroying Greece cheap credit that the central banks have made available to everyone (including the governments) created economies that cannot be sustained without cheap credit - we have gotten used to living beyond our means, esp. the governments with HUGE overhead, and the end result is a huge debt when u r addicted to cheap credit, it's impossible to simply turn it off - since so many people's livelihood is now dependent on it.

[@subwaysinger]

@ModernPatriotsUnited I was a huge supporter and still am of Kucinich and agree I was beyond disappointed when he signed the republican healthcare plan (why do you still call it Obamacare? Boehner came out the day after it passed bragging "we got everything we wanted". It's republican healthcare and that's why it sucks) but putting Ron Paul in this group above I don't agree with. He may be a man of his word, but what's the word? You might want to look a little deeper. He benefits no one.

[@bodryn]

@LoveIsNotNotLove You might like Norman Goldman, also was a lawyer for 25 years, who has a daily radio program along very much the same lines, and a great knowledge of a lot of these same issues. You can easily Google his name.

[@InstantKarma376]

Actually it's austerity cuts that are destroying Greece but yea you got the gist of it

[@requiemforamerica8432]

(contd) greece is actually too sick for actual austerity austerity simply means living within your means - but asking greece to do so now, when its entire structure is based on easy credit, is impossible. even a small cut becomes incredibly painful though they are not practicing real austerity by any stretch of imagination - as a result we have a half ass cutting cost attempts while everyone suffers and the debt CONTINUES to grow when u are 5000 lbs overweight, it's too late for a diet :-(

[@bodryn]

@jsgdk Interesting how corporations privatize the profits, but socialize the losses, and leave their messes for taxpayers to clean up, if they even can.

[@ModernPatriotsUnited]

@elfil76 Kucinich compromised his principals by voting for Obama-care after he said he would not. That one decision to go back on his word for political safety lost my support. Ron Paul is a man of his word.

[@zoticus1]

Obama says "let them eat cake" while the poor scrounges for crumbs.

[@bodryn]

@CurtHowland No corporation is going to be held liable for anything, except for slaps on the wrist, and certainly you know that. They consider it just a cost of doing business. A fine now and then, amounting to a tiny percentage of their income, which is at record levels. They have all the money and lawyers they need to delay and eventually prevent meaningful restrictions on their activities, which answer only to the stockholders, with the bottom line being PROFIT.

[@highway234]

@spamllpitdept I like Kucinich but he's a little too flaky for the white house, imo. I'd write a check for a Nader/Bernie Sanders ticket, for sure.

[@DulciYodel]

Why are you still taking Ralph Nader seriously? In recent years he has proven time and again that he has nothing useful to say.

[@CurtHowland]

@bodryn "Somebody who might do bad things that hurt people." As opposed to a clearly defined someone who is already hurting people? Thank you, I will gladly take the chance that actual freedom will fail, than to give up on freedom altogether. Choosing between slave masters is a false choice.

[@Saratini11]

@Saratini11 And that focus on Wall Street corruption, WHAT horse crap, he is one of the top people on the banksters payroll.

[@DulciYodel]

@joecool100 It's not so much that people are more interested in Dancing with the Stars. It's that people would rather hear from someone who is willing to think things through and gather ALL of the facts before he opens his mouth. Mr.Nader used to be very good at that. He isn't any more.

[@joecoool100]

@DulciYodel In recent years he has proved that he has plenty to say and the main stream media wont air it and most people are more interested in Dancing with the Stars, The Jersey Shore and Chris Angel. If not Ralph then who, please advise us on the error of our ways.

[@MrJoeystockdale]

No mention of Paul? This is why I stopped watching democracy now 4 years ago. The solution is getting goverment out of our lives.

[@bodryn]

@antoniozart Norman Goldman is suggesting a 3 part plan to bring progressive politics back into the mainstream. You don't want to vote green just yet - you have to get a long range plan into place. We listen to his radio show every day and apparently it is thriving.

[@bodryn]

@landlogger Ron Paul is planning to endorse Mitt Romney at the convention. End of story.

[@gbantock]

How about a Presidential Anti-Fraud Unit? Fund it, and dump Prez' Obawumpa!

[@Fukkutah]

Obama shouldn't take progressives' vote for granted; most of the ones I know are catching the Ron Paul train

[@Kortalh]

@MrLamotta86 Ron Paul supported the Defense of Marriage Act, which bans gay marriage at the federal level. He's also tried several times to introduce the Sanctity of Life Act, which bans abortion at the federal level. If you like him, that's fine -- but please don't try to argue that he's a progressive. Any progressive who examines his positions will find him to be the polar opposite of their own. Ron Paul and Ralph Nader are antitheses to one another.

[@bodryn]

@CurtHowland Well, I would say you are already hurting people.

[@MrLamotta86]

@Kortalh Ron Paul would let the states deal with issues such as gay marriage and abortion which is a good way to handle it. Paul is not that distant with second and third place finishes in the early primaries and I don't think your comparison with Rocky Anderson is realistic

[@CurtHowland]

@bodryn "corporations" will always dominate govt. The coercive power of govt is what corporations used to crush competition, and it ALWAYS HAS BEEN. Govt legitimizes such acts. Take away govt, those actions will be illegitimate not just for you and me, but for "corporations" as well. Sovereign Immunity MUST END. That is not a knee jerk reaction, it is the result of careful study. Have you read Bastiat "The Law"? It's online for free.

[@joecoool100]

@thealternativecouk How much money did Gandhi or Martin Luthier King have, or Jesus or The Budha? Who controled them? Money only has the power that we give it. All the money in the world didnt saved Hitler, or the French Royality and wont save any despots today. Money does not live and die on this planet....humans do....we were here long before money and it will be so after too.

[@CurtHowland]

@bodryn Apparently you don't know that the Fukushima reactor was built for, and run by, a govt utility, to govt standards, and that no govt decision maker is being held liable? Apparently you don't know that the BP deep-water drilling was not what BP wanted to do, but could not get a govt permit to drill on land or in shallow water, that govt inspectors cleared everything? Bhopal I will grant was a disaster. Yet there was no lack of govt oversight, govt inspection, yet no govt liability.

[@rodrigodet]

@darknightKDD OMG take you soo much for that comment its going to make me laugh for weeks

[@JonathanJWB1]

@spamllpitdept I hear ya but sadly the progressive camp will have to take some time to heal and recover from the disaster that we have now in Obama. With the political system grumbled under corruption and left disfunctional, there is only one choice now, Ron Paul. The corruption needs to be dealt with now, not in 4-8 or ten years, but now. There is only one candidate that can do that fast. Take money out of politics now or watch the ship go under in front of our eyes.

[@gino07770]

Why does hell does Erick Holder close and open his eyes so much (4:45-4:57)??? Does anyone else find that weird and creepy?

[@morpheusdezion]

First!!!!!

[@angelus6fifty]

@Slings66 If you pay attention to Democracy Now, you would know that DN is very critical of Obama and his policies. It's one of the fairest, semi-known sources for information.

[@darknightKDD]

i understand his point but because he needs corps to sponser him for the next election so cant rock the boat right now. once he is re-elected you will see the true obama in action

[@optionsupdate]

@DeePhlat lol haha

[@15palmtree]

You know without government assistance well die off just like the native americans did, they needed government. Less government assistance IMO gives people more initiative. Just over-heard a girl bragging about her government funded touch screen phone (Obama phone) while standing in line @ school the other day. I thought that was just a stupid rumor...God help us...

[@uberkewl19]

Zzzzzzzz. When I'm watching Obamas SOTUS

[@CurtHowland]

@bodryn Apparently you are unaware that the greatest polluters are govts?That it is govt regulations that prevent strict liability where polluters are concerned, to prevent "retarding industry"? That even the travesty of "Love Canal" happened because the Hooker Chemical Company followed EVERY LAW, it was the city that built a school on the site? You want to blame "Unregulated capitalism", yet what is happening is specifically BECAUSE of that regulation. Try this: Strict liability.

[@terristclair9885]

Right on.. The best President ever is Donald J. Trump.

[@optionsupdate]

@PhatPhat818 you blink a lot when u are nervous or lying

[@joecoool100]

@stabbed22 I think his liver is pickled from to many Whiskey Sour's and 4 packs of Camel non-filters a day. His skin is gray/orange

[@CurtHowland]

@bodryn Really? So you have no knowledge of history other than your govt textbook. Standard Oil had some 10% of the market when it was broken up. Where is the trust? The price of kerosene dropped from 60c to 10c per gal., where is the price-fixing? Kerosene was made so cheap that whale hunting was no longer profitable. John Rockefeller, Savior of the Whales! And pollution due to oil nearly ceased, again directly because of Rockefeller. You forget that fracking is only legal by of govt.

[@tepeyac10]

nader's ego led to bush becoming president. It would be good to see him take responsibility for this

[@browntrout611]

tepeyac10 Negative. Al Gore killed his run.

[@browntrout611]

Meant to say Gore killed his OWN run.

[@ricktarded5741]

Ralph Nader killed the Corvair....he cannot be "half-bad."

[@RachelDerGolem]

I don't care about Syria, just like Ralph Nader.