This one comes from Brad DeLong. He linked to Eric Alterman’s latest blasting of Nader for costing Gore the election. Alterman has a lot of (justified) anger at how self-serving Nader has become, and I have to agree. I managed to survive my five months working at PIRG, but just barely. I had tons of issues with Nader’s demeanor back then, but at the most basic level, I couldn’t handle the way the PIRG folks refered to him as “Saint Ralph,” and I couldn’t believe he did nothing to dissuade them. I remember, at the time, thinking that it was so obvious that Nader lives for the applause moment. Once I made that connection, his actions often seem pretty crass.

Clearly Alterman isn’t crazy about him, either.

Now that Wesley Clark has thrown his hat into the Presidental ring, I’m finally getting around to posting Michael Moore’s open letter to Gen. Clark.

Got to say, it’s a powerful piece of writing that did a lot (more) to convince me that Gen. Clark is someone worth listening to in this process. A pro-choice, gun-control, liberal Democrat four-star General with charisma to boot is a serious threat to Bush, and also, it seems, has potential to be an excellent president.

It seems, for the first time since 1992, there are some real options in the primaries for the liberals.