Like some of the ideas, but....
"Jill Stein launches bid for Green Party presidential nomination" by Michael Levenson, Globe Staff
Lexington doctor Jill Stein launched a bid to become the Green Party’s presidential nominee today, saying the Occupy Wall Street movement shows voters are frustrated with President Obama’s stewardship of the economy.
“We are hearing the need for this race in every park and plaza where there’s an encampment around this country,” Stein said at a press conference with about two dozen supporters on the steps of the Massachusetts State House. “There’s an enormous need for alternatives, and we see that breaking out all over.”
Stein said that, while she is not officially aligned with Occupy Wall Street protesters, “We are proud to give that movement an electoral voice.”
A frequent candidate for political office in Massachusetts, Stein has run unsuccessfully for state representative and secretary of state and for governor in 2002 and 2010, when she received about 2 percent of the vote.
She said she hopes to qualify for the ballot in at least 45 states. The Green Party will formally nominate a candidate for president in summer 2012.
Stein said she wants to give voters a “Green New Deal” that would put the unemployed to work in the renewable energy sector. She also vowed to institute a “Medicare for all” health care system, impose an immediate moratorium on all home foreclosures, and withdraw troops from Iraq and Afghanistan.
Democrats, pointing to the role Ralph Nader played in the 2000 presidential election in Florida, have warned that Green Party candidates siphon votes away from the Democratic nominee, thereby helping to elect Republicans.
I'll likely be writing in Ralph if Ron Paul is jobbed out of the Republican nomination.
Stein rejected that argument, saying there was little difference between Obama and his Republican challengers. Both, she said, represent the interests of Wall Street and would deepen the “Bush/Obama recession.”
The doctor sure got that diagnosis right.
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She's not one, and I will only give you one gue$$ as to why.
