Wednesday, September 26, 2007 
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I was just watching the Colbert Report and Sam Waterston was on, touting Unity08. Except that both he and Colbert kept pronouncing it as Unity-oh-Eight dot com, not Unity-zero-Eight dot com. I knew what they meant of course, but I decided to see what was at Unityo8. Naturally, they don't own the domain, despite having existed for more than a year. Such incompetence.

As for their third-way platform, I expect that they would act as a spoiler, most likely splitting the Democratic vote, as Nader (cursed be his name) did in 2000. Their list of sponsors is quite suspect too. Irregular Times lists a number of problems with Unity08.

posted on Thursday, September 27, 2007 6:50:27 AM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00) 
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Monday, October 01, 2007 5:19:49 PM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00)
Posted a comment on this yesterday, but I don't know what happened to it--it got lost in all the traveling between airports somehow.

Anyway, all I said was I love Sam Waterston's acting and philanthropy work, but he's so hopelessly 20th-century and earnest sometimes. He was on Hardball once, talking about this venture, and it just struck me that he has no idea what he's getting into. So this is not particularly surprising, though it is disappointing.
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