As I browsed through Ralph Nader’s blog at the Democracy Rising website, I came across an archived entry that piqued my interest. Here is an excerpt:

Moyers brings impressive credentials beyond his knowledge of the White House-Congressional complexes. He puts people first. Possessed of a deep sense of history relating to the great economic struggles in American history between workers and large companies and industries, Moyers today is a leading spokesman on the need to deconcentrate the manifold concentrations of political and economic power by global corporations. He is especially keen on doing something about media concentration about which he knows from recurrent personal experience as a television commentator, investigator, anchor and newspaper editor.

As millions of viewers and readers over the decades know, Bill Moyers is unusually articulate and authentic in evaluating the unmet necessities and framing the ignored solutions in our country.

He has interviewed hundreds of authors, scholars, politicians and activists demonstrating his penchant for being well prepared in advance.

Moyers would bring to the Democratic Party a much needed understanding of the South, its political, populist and religious history and contemporary dynamics. His Baptist, Texas background would help his Party understand how to stop writing off the South to the Republicans from the Presidential to the state and local levels and how to become engaged in this fastest growing region of the nation.

I am a huge fan of Bill Moyers and I couldn’t think of anyone better to throw money at and to submit my vote for in a presidential election.  Read further…