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Nader: Obama can be Uncle Sam or Uncle Tom

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Ralph Nader says that Obama has a choice between being an Uncle Sam for the people or an Uncle Tom for the corporations.

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  • ... his favorable post-Civil Rights situation with the white electoral majority by making strong public reference to the persistently powerful and pervasive role of anti-black racism in American life.

    He's going to try to ride white America's self-serving racial confusion and denial as far as he can -- all the way, he hopes, to the White House."

  • ... is the nice reverse side of hating inner-city Darnell and Lakisha.

    The sophisticated and opportunistic Obama knows this very well.

    He's not going to complicate his comfortable funding relationships with the likes of Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Henry Crown and Co. and General Dynamics et al. by substantively criticizing empire and/or class inequality at home and abroad.

    In a similarly calculating and power-seeking vein, he's not about to undermine ...

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  • @aguynamedfrank I didn't. I voted for Nader. Ron Paul 2012.

  • "I wonder now if that's what you want your legacy to be: The Man who on the night the first African-American in the history of this nation was elected, you ask if he's going to be Uncle Sam or Uncle Tom?" - Instead it looks like Ralph Nader, ONCE again, was spot on.

  • If you voted for Obama to give you "socialist" health care -- TOO BAD! -- he gave you fascist health care

  • That's why I thank goodness for RT America and for its great news journalism.

  • Thanks for the TRUTH Nadar!

    This is proof that the US Media isn't for the people.

  • notice how smith wanted to focus on the "uncle tom" term

    while totally ignoring the pertinent facts spoken by nader.....

    this happens all the time...change the subject so the american

    people won't know who the real enemy is.....

  • Perfect bullseye for Mr Nader.

    Sounded a lot like sour grapes at the time...sounds prophetic today, not even a year later.

  • 2012...

  • Looks like Nader was right.

    Prophetic.

  • It's so sorry to see these guys desperate to make Nader look bad. He couldn't debate nader sensibly so he sticks with that one phrase.

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