Nader: Obama tries to “talk white,” tap “white guilt”
WASHINGTON _ Ralph Nader certainly isn’t making any friends in the Democratic Party these days.
And he doesn’t have a whole lot of Democratic friends to begin with, considering that many in the party still blame him for Al Gore’s razor-thin loss in 2000.
Now the great consumerist is not only running for president again, he’s making remarks sure to aggravate Democrats, like those in an interview with the Rocky Mountain News that appeared today. For instance:
“There’s only one thing different about Barack Obama when it comes to being a Democratic presidential candidate. He’s half African-American,” Nader said. “Whether that will make any difference, I don’t know. I haven’t heard him have a strong crackdown on economic exploitation in the ghettos. Payday loans, predatory lending, asbestos, lead. What’s keeping him from doing that? Is it because he wants to talk white? He doesn’t want to appear like Jesse Jackson? We’ll see all that play out in the next few months and if he gets elected afterwards.”
Asked if he really thinks Obama tries to “talk white,” Nader said: “Of course. I mean, first of all, the number one thing that a black American politician aspiring to the presidency should do is to candidly describe the plight of the poor, especially in the inner cities and the rural areas, and have a very detailed platform about how the poor are going to be defended by the law, are going to be protected by the law, and are going to be liberated by the law.”
An Obama spokeswoman said that her campaign was “obviously disappointed at these backwards-looking remarks.”
Did Nader make any valid points here? Are folks being too political correct? Does he still have a role to play in American politics?
Tell us what you think – and join me this morning for a discussion on presidential politics at 11 o’clock.
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Raph Nader is becoming more and more pathetic with the passing of time. He even allowed what started out as a good thing, “Consumer Reports” to become tainted and corrupt and worthless. He is a bought man, and has no creditbility.
Worst yet, now he has allowed himself to become so corrupted that he appears crazy and pathetically ignorant and stupid. To accuse any person raised by a White family of trying to be White is the lowest form of stupidity.
He is so obviously out of his mind in ALL his assumptions and assertions here. Or is it that he is so racist that he is mentally disturbed at the prospect of Obama becoming President. Must be a very sad time in this country for the racists.