Personally I didn’t think it would come from Ralf Nader – but I have been proven wrong, which is very OK with me.
Nader, a real advocate for consumer rights should stick just to that, methinks – he has been out of the news with his campaign so getting into the news he knows what he has to say.
Speaking with Colorado’s Rocky Mountain News, Nader accused Obama of attempting to “talk white” and appealing to “white guilt” in his quest to win the White House.
“There’s only one thing different about Barack Obama when it comes to being a Democratic presidential candidate. He’s half African-American,” Nader told the paper in comments published Tuesday.
That didn’t bother me at all – what did was this:
He said Obama’s top issue should be poverty in America, given his racial heritage.
That, is just not right!
Just by that statement alone Nader should be called out on it. You can only deduce that he is saying that all people who are not white, especially black people in America are, by default, poor! This is obviously not the case.
Obama’s presidential campaign called those comments disappointing, and his communication’s director, Robert Gibbs, said Tuesday that they were “reprehensible and basically delusional.”
I agree!
06/30/2008 at 12:26 AM
Lol Gle, do you even listen to his speeches? Why don’t you quote some where he tells black people to vote for him because they are poor. I dare you.
06/25/2008 at 7:55 PM
nader just proved himself to be an opportunist racist. To state all because someone is a certain race, they should act a certain way, and carry out certain legislature because of their race, and not all Americans, shows how desperate he really is, and frankly, uneducated. But I’m guessing that is his target audience. How can a white man tell a black man how to act because of his race? I guess Barack should like certain foods because of his skin color too. It’s this backward thinking that has Barack leading in the polls, Republicans getting killed in statewide elections even with the Obama smears, and Obama likely to be the next President. Appealing to white men over 50 doesn’t cut it anymore. Eight years ago maybe, but as a new generation springs and has the chance to vote, Republicans will need to recreate their brand quick. In 20 years or so, when they die off, this ocuntry will be for the better and more accepting.
06/25/2008 at 6:15 PM
It had to be said, Obama was playing the race card all along. It just got played on him…
McMain in 08
06/25/2008 at 5:54 PM
Ralph Nader is correct. Obama crafts his the
language within his speeches to patronize the
white power structure. Many of the urban,
African-American poor are supporting him
nearly 100% And he feels like he doesn’t have
to address their issues; their concerns; their
precarious plight? Shame on Obama! Ralph Nader is exactly right. It takes courage to go
against the status quo and tell it like it really
is. These arrogant, snotty, pompous white
in America don’t want anything to change that
upsets their cloak of security in the good life.
06/25/2008 at 5:48 PM
I agree… it’s not very good politics to stereotype like that.
That being said, I think the more that anybody does to help the poor, the better. But that’s another thing entirely.