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Article: Tweedle tyrant A Nader voter repents
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- July 21, 2003
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Tweedle tyrant
A Nader voter repents
By JASON SALZMAN
Monday, July 21, 2003
After George W. Bush was elected president, my Al Gore-loving
neighbor gave me a green "Unrepentant Nader Voter" bumper sticker.
After the Florida fiasco, she thought I would be ashamed to stick it
on my car. Wrong. I immediately slapped it on my Honda. It was
beautiful.
In March, shortly after bombs began dropping on Baghdad, I took a
razor blade from my garage and excised the letters "Un" from
"Unrepentant," leaving "repentant Nader Voter" on my bumper.
It was a liberating act of self-correction that all Nader voters
should think about.
It took more than two years before I felt sufficiently repentant
about my ...