What ralph nader has to say about the debates !!

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Dear Friend,


Help us fight for real debates and send us into October with the resources this campaign needs for the homestretch!

Deadline: Today, September 30th, at midnight.

Tonight we'll see the foreign policy "debate" in Coral Gables, Florida. The Commission on Presidential Debates has excluded, once again, all third party and independent voices, despite polls showing that more than half the public wants Ralph to be in the debate. Critical issues affecting the world will be missing from these staged, parallel interviews, including a strong voice for waging peace!

Both major party campaigns want you to have low expectations for their candidates, so they can "win the spin." Mainstream media and the Democrats want you to think that George W. Bush is a "skilled debater." It's difficult for anyone here to say "George W. Bush" and "skilled debater" in the same sentence. If John F. Kerry can't landslide this guy, what does that say about Senator Kerry and the Democrats? Unlike the two parties, we want you to have high expectations for discourse on foreign policy, for our shared future, and for our electoral system, now rigged by the two parties.

When the unconstitutional war in Iraq is euphemized and we're treated to "opposing" variations of the same solutions to the quagmire?both requiring more military funding, and more troops, if not the draft?is it not time to ask if there is room on that stage to hear about a better way to win the peace?

As millions of voices advocating peace from around the world are ignored, you and Nader/Camejo 2004 will remind the country that there are still more choices and strategies to consider for ending stateless terrorism and threats to United States security.

While Kerry avoids calling Bush, Inc. to task for crimes from Florida to Fallujah, consider a country where real opposition to the Democrats and Republicans is allowed into the public forum, and real debates are held to discuss more than just rehearsed platitudes.

Just like in 2000, Bush and his opponent will likely agree on a great number of issues, making an entire nation of "Anybody but Bush" voters cringe, hoping for more. As in 2000, we'll be in Florida (and on the ballot, too!), with the issues that can win, with the issues that demand to be heard.

Tonight we close the books on September and we need to send a message in our Federal Election Commission reports that we will have the capability to make a strong push through the last weeks of the campaign. The Democrats have played every dirty rotten political trick. They have spent and continue to spend countless dollars on corporate lawyers across the country to try to bully us off the ballot. But we are not backing down and we are not retreating. The more outrageous they behave, the more determined we get. We are on the ballot in 36 states and fighting for at least 8 more.

As I have said before: What kind of political system do we have if Republicans can purge the voter rolls and Democrats can swim up stream to purge the ballots? And where they both dictate who is permitted to reach tens of millions of Americans through the Presidential debates?

We need your contributions before midnight, tonight.

Please, contribute before the debate puts you to sleep! For those intending to watch the whole orchestrated affair, you may find yourself so frustrated that you will want to double your gift or max out for your principles!

Thank you for all of your voices and thank you very much for all of your support.

Sincerely,

Theresa Amato

Campaign Manager

P.S. TONIGHT (Sep. 30) 7pm (EDT): Ralph on CNN's 360? w/ Anderson Cooper (check listings).

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Dear Friend,

Audio message from Ralph in Coral Gables.

We're down at the University of Miami, trying to get close to the presidential debates, or as one commentator said, "the Presidential charade," where the two parties are engaging in very scripted and less than exciting exchange and excluding many of the areas of foreign policy.

We have ten areas of major foreign military policy in this country that are not going to be debated tonight and we're giving interviews to press here and providing a voice to the 57 percent of the American people that a new Zogby poll says want Ralph Nader and Peter Miguel Camejo in the Presidential and Vice Presidential debates.

We want to have your help. You are our inspiration. We're doing this for your concerns about the future of our country and the world and the future of your children and grandchildren. Please contribute as much as you can, as soon as you can.

Thank you. You are our inspiration.