Nader on Obama “talking white”

Ralph Nader, the thorn in the Democrats’ side at election time, has decided that his best shot at the Presidency is to become blacker than Obama. In an interview in the Rocky Mountain News, Nader questions Obama’s blackness;

“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. “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.”

Of course, Nader is just an unreconstructed 60s radical who thinks every Black person lives in the ghetto and they’re all ignorant enough to be tempted by payday loan scams. Anyone who thinks otherwise must be white.

I’m constantly amazed that the Left accuses Republicans of being racists, yet the Left are the only people who call attention to Obama’s race. The Clinton campaign at first, now Nader is picking up the call.

Washington Post in a companion article to the one I wrote about earlier,  is about that bunch of morons at “Stormfront” (Google it, I’m not linking to it) who claim that they’re getting an increase in traffic since Obama’s nomination;

Sen. Barack Obama’s historic victory in the Democratic primaries, celebrated in America and across much of the world as a symbol of racial progress and cultural unity, has also sparked an increase in racist and white supremacist activity, mainly on the Internet, according to leaders of hate groups and the organizations that track them.

The part that leaps out at me, was how the Post referred to the groups in comparison to  the Obama campaign;

“The Obama campaign isn’t going to let dishonest smears spread across the Internet unanswered,” Obama spokesman Tommy Vietor said in a statement. “We have to be proactive and fight back.”

But on a Web site run out of a house in West Palm Beach, Fla., the other side is also fighting.

The “other side” is Stormfront, although it sounds like it’s all of the opposition to the Obama campaign. And of course no story about Republican racists is complete without mentioning David Duke;

“One person put it this way: Obama for president paves the way for David Duke as president,” said Duke, who ran for president in 1988, received less than 1 percent of the vote and has since spent much of his time in Europe. “This is finally going to make whites begin to realize it’s a necessity to stick up for their own heritage, and that’s going to make them turn to people like me. We’re the next logical step.”

I think the Washington Post’s time would be better spent on ferreting out the Left’s racists than trying to exhume the corpses of long ago forgotten white supremacists.

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