Nader talks about letters he is sent to george w. Bush and barack obama regarding our domestic and foreign policy. Its great to have you here ralph on cspan thank you. Im honored to interview you on this new book. Yeah the Reference Point those days. Its a message that 103 letters i sent to president bush and president obama in 2001 and 2015 that were not acknowledged or not answered. So i thought i would embarrass myself by putting them all in a book to raise a bigger issue which is the most Democratic Media is when a person writes a letter to anil elected official cant be censored, cant be distorted, and not to respect it or even acknowledge it so people dont know its going to some dark hole. Its a major issue i think. Most young people dont realize that a young a written letter to an official has more impact. They get like a half 1 million letters a week, you dont expect them to answer every letter. Yes teams of volunteers go to the white house every morning and they separate all th
President bushs experience after katrina. Was that racial . I dont think president bush was being racist with his handling of katrina. This was the hurricane that of course affected so many of minorities and lower income people who were hurt by the storm in louisiana mississippi. Particularly in the ninth ward of new orleans. We saw people people on rooftops waiting for help. I think, and even president bill clinton in this book, he says i dont think it was an issue of racism, his policies just did not help elevate people in poverty. Now we talk about katrina. President bush got in a lot of trouble for the fact that he was caught up in the state right issue. The state had to deal with it and that was what bogged him down. Because people felt disenfranchised from their government, they felt left alone. Because people died, people died, he did get in trouble. Barack obama is the first, probably not the last africanamerican president that you will cover but his grade isnt as high as bill