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Nader: "Won't someone please pay attention to my campaign?"

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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."

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No, Ralph, even making idiotic racist comments like that won't get anyone to pay any attention to your campaign.

Now please just slip quietly into the shadows of irrelevance where you belong. There's a good chap.

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Re: Nader: "Won't someone please pay attention to my campaign?"

One might not like Nader, but if he was elected in November He would be change from current system of corp america that McCain and Obama would continue.
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Re: Nader: "Won't someone please pay attention to my campaign?"

Its fun to see 3rd party guys, they don't have to be politically correct !
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Re: Nader: "Won't someone please pay attention to my campaign?"

Damn, I though Obama was talking about Republicans when he said:

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We know what kind of campaign they're going to run. They're going to try to make you afraid. They're going to try to make you afraid of me. (laughter) They're gonna.... They're going to say, "You know what, he's -- he's -- he's young, inexperienced, and, uh, uh, he's got a funny name. Did I mention he's black? (cheers and applause) (Obama laughs) He's got a feisty wife.
I didn't realize he was talking about Nader's campaign.
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Re: Nader: "Won't someone please pay attention to my campaign?"

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Nader: "Won't someone please pay attention to my campaign?"

Honestly, I'm not sure the media would even pay much attention to Nader's campaign if he called Obama a nigger.

If it's Nader's objective to grab headlines, he's going to have to be off the chart controversial. His default role is to be the man everyone knows he's been for decades..... a consumer advocate and ceremonial protest to the two party system. We've seen his show before and know it well... and he's not going to get many headlines.
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Re: Nader: "Won't someone please pay attention to my campaign?"

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Honestly, I'm not sure the media would even pay much attention to Nader's campaign if he called Obama a nigger.

If it's Nader's objective to grab headlines, he's going to have to be off the chart controversial. His default role is to be the man everyone knows he's been for decades..... a consumer advocate and ceremonial protest to the two party system. We've seen his show before and know it well... and he's not going to get many headlines.
The sincerety of Nader is gone.
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No, Ralph, even making idiotic racist comments like that won't get anyone to pay any attention to your campaign.
How is that an idiotic racist comment? It makes perfect sense to me. (And no, the obvious implication does not apply.)
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Re: Nader: "Won't someone please pay attention to my campaign?"

How is Obama "acting white"? What the hell? What does that even mean?
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How is Obama "acting white"? What the hell? What does that even mean?



ask any of the kids at the mall with the giant pants around their knees and oversized hat pointed a little to the side.
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The sincerety of Nader is gone.



yeah, ever since he helped sink Al Gore he's become a pariah.
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yeah, ever since he helped sink Al Gore he's become a pariah.
Your mileage may vary but he became a pariah to me in '04.
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Your mileage may vary but he became a pariah to me in '04.


no, he didn't do Kerry any favors either...
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Re: Nader: "Won't someone please pay attention to my campaign?"

It is good to see that the DNC and GOP have truely made good on that line that they are the only ones that can "SAVE THE COUNTRY" and that every one else is a nut job..... remember that both parties have had control for the last 50 + years and just how is the country today? or another way of looking at it would the Baseball or Football skipper still have a job today if the team was under 400?
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Re: Nader: "Won't someone please pay attention to my campaign?"

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How is Obama "acting white"? What the hell? What does that even mean?
It means Obama isn't living up to being a stereotype that phoney condescending limousine 'liberals' like him need to 'save' and 'care for' to feed their ego.

It isn't that Obama is half of British/Irish descent, raised in a white family, educated himself and did very well in school, set personal ambitions and went after them, etc. No, that's expecting too much from him.

You see, in Naderworld, all blacks must have rap sheets, stolen pistols with bad tempers and bad aim, 4 kids by 4 mothers, baggy pants, gangsta rap blaring, etc. And forget talking correctly. No sir, speaking and acting correctly is only for white people you know, 'real' white people that is because half doesn't count. Blacks are predetermined to be a social disaster, underprivileged and behind white people and if they speak and act properly and excel on their own then they are only pretending to be white (i.e., competent) and selling out the blacks (naturally incompetent) as an Uncle Tom.

At least that's the apparent world of Nader, a legend and saviour in his own mind who was sent by God above to be Big Brother to us all.

Of course, God forbid blacks actually succeed and help ruin his perceived purpose. The nerve of them.
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It means Obama isn't living up to being a stereotype that phoney condescending limousine 'liberals' like him need to 'save' and 'care for' to feed their ego.

It isn't that Obama is half of British/Irish descent, raised in a white family, educated himself and did very well in school, set personal ambitions and went after them, etc. No, that's expecting too much from him.

You see, in Naderworld, all blacks must have rap sheets, stolen pistols with bad tempers and bad aim, 4 kids by 4 mothers, baggy pants, gangsta rap blaring, etc. And forget talking correctly. No sir, speaking and acting correctly is only for white people you know, 'real' white people that is because half doesn't count. Blacks are predetermined to be a social disaster, underprivileged and behind white people and if they speak and act properly and excel on their own then they are only pretending to be white (i.e., competent) and selling out the blacks (naturally incompetent) as an Uncle Tom.

At least that's the apparent world of Nader, a legend and saviour in his own mind who was sent by God above to be Big Brother to us all.

Of course, God forbid blacks actually succeed and help ruin his perceived purpose. The nerve of them.


Surely you're mistaken. Michael Moore would never support such a candidate.
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