August 14, 2003
Ralph Nader
On the pie incident in San Francisco, I know that many of you probably are assuming that I did it.
I have a confession to make.
I didn't do it. I am heartily sorry. I didn't even realize that he was in the area. Frankly, until Larry Flynt declared that he was back in politics, I have given the award of sleaziest politico to Nader. I am not sure he still does not retain the title. Of all of the bad ideas that washed ashore on Plymouth Rock in 1620, the worst seemed to have concentrated in Nader's brain.
I would take a million Clintons over a single Nader. That is how bad of an influence I think Nader is. Even though he helped defeat Gore, I still can't show the man the slightest bit of gratitude to this loathesome figure. Nader is the sort of darkness that controls an empire not for personal gain, no, that would be too human for Nader, rather to impose his sterile, smoke-free, safe and vegetarian vision of life on the whole world. His PIRG volunteers, those mindless automata that spread from college campuses, where they prey upon the confused to lure freshmen into their clutches, his Center for Science in the Public Interest, his Green Party, all are borrowed straight from Satan's playbook.
I am terribly sorry that I was not the one to launch the pie.
Which brings us right back to praying for the likes of the Hussein boys.
Even as we utterly and completely reject everything that a Ralph Nader or an Uday Hussein publicly stand for, we can never loose sight that they, too, are human beings, created in the image of God. It would please God (and should please us) if Nader were to be converted. It should please us if Uday repented at the moment of death.
As much as he resembles it, Ralph Nader is not one of Satan's demons. He certainly deserves at least a pie in the face, but we still must love the SOB. Not like. Jesus never commanded us to get along with asses like Nader, but we do have to love them.
If you did not need that last part of the sermon, please realize that it was directed primarily at me. Sorry.
Posted by erik at August 14, 2003 4:59 PM | TrackBackAlicia,
I have heard nothing but good about the Corvair from actual Corvair owners. I also remember the various scares done by the Center for Science in the Public Interest that really hurt restaurants based on really iffy science.
Posted by: Erik Keilholtz at August 17, 2003 12:02 AMWe have a personal reason to dislike Nader. The Corvair car. My husband has owned three of them, they are as good a car as anything else of their time, and because of "Unsafe at any speed" they went out of production.
Posted by: alicia the midwife at August 16, 2003 5:37 PMStephen,
We absolutely need the second part of the sermon, but we need the first, as well. One of the big errors of our age is thinking that we should not have enemies, that we should not judge the merits of acts and ideas. We just need to pick the right enemies and always remember their fundamental humanity.
Posted by: Erik Keilholtz at August 15, 2003 9:27 AMDear Erik.
We always need the second part of the sermon. I feel much the same way, only perhaps not so strongly. I know too little to be able to comment extensively, but I am not enamored with what I do know. But you are correct.
shalom,
Steven
Posted by: Steven Riddle at August 14, 2003 6:09 PM