Nader Talks Nonsense

Perennial presidential candidate loser Ralph Nader told the Rocky Mountain News that Barack Obama "talks white."

A guy who can’t rustle up enough supporters to meet in a cell phone booth offered this advice:

I mean, first of all, the number one thing that a black American politician aspiring to the presidency should be is to candidly describe the plight of the poor, especially in the inner cities and the rural areas, and have a very detailed platform about how the poor is going to be defended by the law, is going to be protected by the law, and is going to be liberated by the law.

Nader is trapped in an era, circa the 1970s, when he was relevant and folks used the term "ghettos."

Why would anyone, let alone Obama, listen to a man who won 0.3 percent of the vote in 2004, and has a snowball’s chance of garnering a fraction of that in November.

Nader wants to pigeonhole Obama as the "black presidential candidate." At the same time, he presumes to define our issues.

It’s enough to make you wanna ralph.