Nader: Obama trying to 'talk white'
[cnn-photo-caption image= http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2008/images/06/25/art.nader.gi.jpg caption="Nader is taking heat for his latest comments."](CNN) - Ralph Nader's presidential candidacy has received little media attention, but his latest critique of Barack Obama has come under fire for it's seemingly racial overtones.
Speaking with Colorado's Rocky Mountain News, Nader accused Obama of attempting to both "talk white" and appeal 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. "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."
Obama's presidential campaign called those comments disappointing, and his communication's director, Robert Gibbs, said Tuesday they were "reprehensible and basically delusional."
"I don't think he's spent a lot of time looking at the record of Barack Obama," Gibbs said on MSNBC.
Nader, the longtime consumer advocate who was blamed by many Democrats for Al Gore’s loss in the 2000 presidential election, said Obama's top issue should be poverty in America, given his racial heritage.
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Listen if your a true democrate/independent, not happy with the last 8rs, are you better off today than you were before w was selected by the supreme court... is your financial situatrion better or worse and just think hanging chads and President Gore...answer these questions and you know who you will vote for...all this other stuff...dobson, mclaim, nader...doesnt matter, ait gonna make a difference, put HRC on the ticket and let the right wing howl!
Not only are Nader's statements totally wrong, but he's an idiot if he doesn't see how good Obama as president will be for this country. He has "sour grapes". He knows he'll never be president so he tries to ruin the other guy's chances. He does it every four years.
Ralph Nader, in my opinion, is someone who just refuses to just... go away. It seems as though once every four years he rears his little head in order to recapture his 15 minutes of fame. Okay we got it: Nobody drives Corvairs anymore!!! Now just go away.
I'm a 41 year old african-american. Right now we all have the same problems. So i guess if we have a white president he should care about only white issues first?? Obama will win because he understands white, black, dogs, cats, parrots, asian , mexican, bahamian, jamaican, i think you get it. WE ARE ALL HURTING NOW!! And who is ralph Nader??
Get real !!!!!!!!!! Maybe, just maybe a person is being themself.......I thought Nader was a grownup......
That is what Obama does.
He manipulates people to get his way.
He skillfully played the race card against Hillary Clinton.
Who'd have thunk that it would work?
But the newbies who did not know better DID indeed fall for the bull.
Pawns for Obama
Ralph Nader was respected for his integrity in the '60s but with each destructive venture into politics he has diminished his reputation.
Why is it that Obama can bash all white people and people just nod their heads in agreement?
But if anybody criticizes Obama, it's all considered 'racism'.
he has done plenty for the black community and plans to help ALL people. Obama has been talking like an AMERICAN.
OBAMA '08
Nader talking stupid.
Ralph, your name is spoken everytime someone is sick to their stomach or has had too much to drink...
Where's the toilet, I think I'm going to Ralph....
Obama has not been rich all his life so he understand the inner city problems probably better than anyone who has ever ran for President. I think too say he is talking white is just a silly thing too say. How do you speak white or how do you speak black. There are two ways too speak. One is with correct grammar and the other is uncorrect grammar.
Wow! I have been waiting for all the racist remarks would come out.
Only in America. Thanking God for freedom.
Well for a candidate trying to get the black vote,,,he called everyone else a racist trying to knock out Hillary. Now he is trying to get the white vote. People who can "see thru his little capers". So what did you expect him to do with white voters...TALK WHITE.
Hello American People!
Mr. Pseudo is just another typical Chicago-made, Chicagoan style politician.
Therefore, Mr. Pseudo will do anything, will say anything to get power.........That includes manipulating words, facts, values, religion, public image, feelings, and, of course, us, the common people.........
Politicians............
God Bless America!!!
Okay, Next...........
Nader needs to make such kind of comment to be in the spotlight.
With all the problem this country is facing we are going to be worried if Obama is talking white or black.
Nader needs just to talk about how he is going to fix thing in this country.
Ralph Nader is a politician I would not vote for and seldom believes but I do believe that Obama is playing on the White Quilt of some Americans. I will not vote for Obama because I can not believe him and he is a far left radical, a socialist.
CNN has done America a disservice for promoting Senator Obama and not telling the truth about him and his policies.
CNN should just report the news, not try to influence it.
Nader is an IQ test. If you voted for him once, you're stupid. If you voted for him twice, you should be deported.
If you vote for him now, then you, your brothers and sisters, your parents, and all of your children should be executed. Because having your genes around are a long-term threat to humanity.
america!!!! – get over the race thing
Mike,
Your opinion doesn't make you racist... just foolish.
Okay, I really get upset at this taking white/black business. How about the man is speaking like himself. Maybe, just maybe you need to meet more African American people Ralph Nader. Then you might find out that their really is no one type of "talk". And you want to be President? Why? Because you talk white???
Obama is speaking about issues that affect the AMERICAN PEOPLE and that means all of us.
He should be checking the tomatoes as head of the nonexistant FDA we now have not running for office or playing spoiler.
Obama's not even black. He's half African and half white. Obama is not even a quarter black. He is a straight up African! LOL!!
Nader is absolutely correct. The Obamaites are wearing blinders and cannot see the unvarnished truth. The emperor has no clothes.
Does anybody with an ounce of sense really care what this man says?