{"id":96,"date":"2008-02-26T01:23:51","date_gmt":"2008-02-26T01:23:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikepellegrini.com\/wordpress\/?p=55"},"modified":"2008-02-26T01:23:51","modified_gmt":"2008-02-26T01:23:51","slug":"ralph-nader-go-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikepellegrini.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2008\/02\/26\/ralph-nader-go-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Ralph Nader,  GO HOME!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><big>An open letter to Ralph (Spolier) Nader:<\/big><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mikepellegrini.com\/Graphics\/nader1.jpg\" alt=\"Ralph Nader\" width=\"350\" height=\"290\" align=\"right\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Still my beating heart! It can&#8217;t be so!<\/em><br \/>\nOMG! I was just swept away with emotion when I that heard you &#8211; Ralph Nader &#8211; were going to step into the 2008 presidential race.<br \/>\nWe are so <em>damned<\/em> lucky!<br \/>\nJust what we need, another <em>spoiler<\/em> in the race.<br \/>\nYou were absolutely instrumental in getting George Bush elected in the 2000 election! Great job! Without you, Gore would have certainly won.<br \/>\nNow, I suppose this announcement means you&#8217;ve decided to throw your weight behind McCain or whoever the republicans put up? Great.<br \/>\nThanks entirely to you, Ralph, and your 2000 presidential bid, George Bush has:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>gotten us hopelessly involved in a war in Iraq<\/li>\n<li>gotten us hopelessly involved in a war in Afghanistan<\/li>\n<li>alienated many of our former allies<\/li>\n<li>taken away many of our civil liberties in the name of national security<\/li>\n<li>run-up an historic national debt to finance the wars<\/li>\n<li>completely screwed-up the economy of our country<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And you Ralph, are personally responsible for:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The deaths of nearly 4,000 US servicemen in Iraq<\/li>\n<li>The wounding of over 29,000 US servicemen in Iraq<\/li>\n<li>The deaths of as many as 89,000 Iraqi civilians from the war<\/li>\n<li>The deaths of 479 US soldiers in Afghanistan<\/li>\n<li>The wounding of almost 1,900 soldiers in Afghanistan<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Ralph Nader:<\/strong> You&#8217;re a disaster for this nation. You&#8217;ve disgraced yourself and your country. You&#8217;re directly responsible for the deaths and injury of thousands of innocent people.<br \/>\nIf you had any class at all, you&#8217;d commit<em> Seppuku<\/em> right now!<br \/>\nBut you don&#8217;t have any class, do you?<br \/>\nIt&#8217;d be hard to out-do the devastation that George Bush has wrought on this nation. But if you do run this time, I&#8217;m wondering what new and wonderful things we have to look forward to now? Famine? Floods? Nuclear war? Pestilence?<br \/>\nI can&#8217;t wait&#8230;<br \/>\nRalph Nader: You wouldn&#8217;t even have my vote for dog-catcher!<br \/>\nSincerely,<br \/>\nMichael Pellegrini<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An open letter to Ralph (Spolier) Nader: Still my beating heart! It can&#8217;t be so! OMG! I was just swept away with emotion when I that heard you &#8211; Ralph Nader &#8211; were going to step into the 2008 presidential race. We are so damned lucky! Just what we need, another spoiler in the race. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[40,41],"class_list":["post-96","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-nader","tag-nader-go-home"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikepellegrini.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikepellegrini.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikepellegrini.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikepellegrini.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikepellegrini.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikepellegrini.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikepellegrini.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikepellegrini.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikepellegrini.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}