Camejo in Minneapolis!

I just got back from Willey Hall on the University of Minnesota campus, where Peter Miguel Camejo, Ralph Nader’s running mate, gave a speech and answered questions from the audience. Oh, how much more interesting the Vice presidential debate would have been had he been included!

He would have asked Cheney why they gave weapons of mass destruction to Iraq and why they appointed CIA terrorist Iyad Allawi Prime Minister of Iraq. He said that if Iraqis could share the oil wealth, each Iraqi family would have $6 million.

He would have asked Edwards why Democrats are openly against democracy regarding Nader’s ballot access, and why Kerry is against democracy in Haiti and Venezuela. And he pointed out how Europe has runoff elections.

Camejo, who ran in the California recall election, blasted Kerry and Schwarzenegger for opposing driver’s licenses for illegal immigrants, even though corporations want the cheap labor within U.S. borders. He also shared the story of the San Francisco Mayor’s race, where Democrats needed to pull out all the stops, bringing in Clinton, Gore, and others, teaming up with Republicans and soliciting Republican absentee ballots to beat Green Party candidate Matt Gonzalez.

He said that Nader/Camejo polls best in the poorest neighborhoods, where the people are immune to Democrat mind games. He also joked that while people remember great abolitionists like Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass, nobody talks about great Whigs of American history. Eventually, the Whig Party vanished. People didn’t say, "I think the Whigs are a little bit better on slavery, I better vote for them."

He told us to go to the polls with a Democrat friend and feel their forehead as they cast their ballot for Kerry. He said we’ll notice a cool sensation as the soul leaves the body.