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Ralph Nader's Clintonesque Race-baiting.
For Ralph Nader to accuse Barack Obama of talking white, and of not wanting to appear like Jesse Jackson is an undisguised race-baiting of the first order. Nader has become irrelevent to the political currents that are a driving force behind people's desire for change. Change that has catalyzed political dynamics and set in motion a co-relation of forces seeking to dislodge the politics of entitlement represented by the likes of Nader, the Clintons and a coterie of liberal egomaniacs. Nader, having castigated what not long ago were considered his natural allies is now finding himself maginalized, and the only way out of that self-maginalization is for him to spew controversial racial epithets just to come out of oblivion his opportunism has consigned him into. Nader's racially-tinged utterances are typical of those of most liberals: masquarading as paragons of racial tolerance and equality, but they buckle under pressure and display their true nature as closetted bigots.





Comments (6)
Pardon me: who is this Ralph Nader? He is completely irrelevant.
June 25, 2008 5:38 PM | Reply | Permalink
i am so sick of you folks accusing anything and everything said about OBAMA as racist. this topics and accusation is so already old and knee jerk. what in heavan is racist about saying obama is not speaking about black issues but more to white issues. if you do not hink blacks have a liteny of concerns then you are naive. nadar's comments were not racist. his comments shed light on the fact obama is not discussing issiues that we care about in this election.
June 25, 2008 6:28 PM | Reply | Permalink
Thanks for calling out the Obama campaign for race-baiting every time somebody says a critical word about their hypocritical Messiah Barack Obama.
June 25, 2008 7:08 PM | Reply | Permalink
I might agree with the idea that Nader has gone astray, but he should be given credit for so many things he helped change.
June 25, 2008 7:39 PM | Reply | Permalink
I agree that Nader has become an opportunist and these comments [if he made them -- do you have the source on that?] are racist, HOWEVER you've got no cause to say these 'utterances are typical of... most liberals'.
Ralph Nader [with all due respect for past accomplishments] does not speak for most liberals... if he did, he would have won in '00 or '04.
If you haven't figured it out yet, liberals and Democrats are not monolithic like Republicans. It is almost impossible to say any one person speaks for most of them. Or that they all think this way or say that. That's why we get frustrated with our own party leaders, why we will never vote in lockstep with the administration in Congress -- because we think for ourselves.
June 25, 2008 10:44 PM | Reply | Permalink
I never did understand the Obama's campaign position that Bill Clinton referring to Jesse Jackson's win in South Carolina was racist. Were they ashamed of the great stride that Jackson made at the time? Afraid that this might make the media mention that by the way, he's black? I mean, who knew?
For the record, I attended Jesse Jackson rallies at the time in Michigan and was impressed.
June 26, 2008 7:37 AM | Reply | Permalink
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