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By Andy Wright in Politics
Friday, Apr. 18 2008 @ 9:04AM

matt-gonzalez.jpgRemember how Ralph Nader is running for president? And Matt Gonzalez signed on to be his vice-presidential candidate? They’re still doing that. Anyway, Gonzalez was on Democracy Now with Amy Goodman yesterday where they discussed those other candidates' economic and foreign policy stances. Gonzalez also explains why he left the Green Party and gives his two cents on Obama’s much discussed offhand remarks made while campaigning in SF.

Check out the video here. -Andy Wright

Photo Credit: votenader.org

Tags: Democracy Now, Matt Gonzalez, Obama, Ralph Nader
3 comment(s) / Post a Comment
marc salomon says:

So Matt Gonzalez said in 2004 that the next office he'd run for was one that he could not possibly win.

Now he tells Amy Goodman that he and Nader have a plan to win this election.

Maybe the small arms fire at PDX by militants across the Columbia River in Vancouver Washington made him bitter and resentful, and he decided to not cling to comfortable remarks made under the pressure cooker of retirement from the Board of Supervisors.

And, damn, the economy is melting down due to structural fallacies put in place over the past 40 years, and Gonzalez claims that ending the war would fix the economy, stupid?

-marc

Posted On: Friday, Apr. 18 2008 @ 11:12AM
occam_sen@gnail.com says:

The previous poster's comment makes no sense.

Gonzalez does not claim ending the Iraq war will cure economic woes in the US. Gonzalez points out correctly that with 50% of our current tax dollars going to pay for the Iraq war and war debt, there is a diversion of resources so historic and monumental that there can be no real committment to change or economic stability until we stop throwing all our resources overseas.

In a nutshell, we can't save the patient (the US ) until we stop the uncontrolled hemmorageing of resources and tax dollars in Iraq. This is Gonzalez's point and he is right. If the patient is bleeding to death, you stop the bleeding before addressing other "structural" problems.

There is currently no re-investment in America. There has been a historic divestment of resrouces in America. Change in government can be measured by our budget committment of where we put our dollars.

Posted On: Saturday, Apr. 19 2008 @ 1:30PM
cleopatra says:

The poster (marc) seems "bitter and resentful," yet his remarks do not constructively focus on any point.

Posted On: Saturday, Apr. 19 2008 @ 3:56PM


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