Oh God, Not You Again
Ralph Nader is back and this time he isn't just content to ruin an election and give us 8 years of hell; he also wants to inject overdose amounts of crazy race-baiting into the national conversation:
"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 in what the Denver newspaper described as a wide-ranging interview. "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?"OK, first, what does it even mean to "talk white" as Nader is claiming? The rest of what Nader says makes us so mad we don't even want to write any more about it. But we will be asking you about your thoughts on this on the show today.
Nader added: "I mean, first of all, the number one thing that a black American politician aspiring to the presidency should be [doing] is to candidly describe the plight of the poor, especially in the inner cities and the rural areas. . . . Haven't heard a thing.
"He wants to show that he is not . . . another politically threatening African-American politician," Nader said. "He wants to appeal to white guilt. You appeal to white guilt not by coming on as, 'black is beautiful, black is powerful.' Basically he's coming on as someone who is not going to threaten the white power structure whether it's corporate or whether it's simply oligarchic. And they love it. Whites just eat it up., "
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