False "Uncle Tom" Anger

Ralph Nader did not call Barack Obama an "Uncle Tom." He said that Obama has a choice of whether or not he wants to be one for the corporations who really control Washington.

The difference is subtle, but it is everything.

The underlying point Nader was trying to make has nothing to do with race. It has to do with whether or not the man who was just elected to be our president will actually have the cojones to stand up to corporate power on behalf of the people who gave him his new job.

Also: All those who think Ralph Nader is just some cranky old egomaniac who does nothing but run for president and write books really need to get a better grip on history.

He has done far more for the people of this country in his public life than most of the people of this country realize.

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[SamLeChiq]

This guy should run for vice president when Ralph Nader runs again. Way to go on telling it like it IS !!!!

[stevo12369]

I'm not even american but I know ralph nader knows wtf time it is.

[virginiaoldfield]

Any Nader critics actually read Uncle Tom's Cabin? I remember with horror the part where Tom's wife asks "why aren't you angry?" when their family was split up as inheritance after their master died. Tom quoted a passage of the Bible about slaves obeying their masters without question. How hideous! Without anger over the injustices of slavery how could it have ended? Uncle Tom was morally a good man but represented an insidious obeisance to the establishment. Obama has also accomodated power.

[enyawix]

Barack Obama is an "Uncle Tom! Best republican money can buy.

[hrk33]

Uncle Tom was a hero in the book. Not a sellout

[zeak62]

Ralph Nader... what a has been......lol OH he does not like FOX NEWS......guess you don't like the truth... I would ask what a jerk you are.. Bush did great things for our country. FOX NEWS tels the truth... LIBERALS DON"T LOL

[robaquarian]

@sergeantnorider your an idiot. obama has done nothing for the black community he is an uncle tom. your offended by words but not by the harm this sell out has caused. obama is a joke. he grew up in white upper middle class world. he was never oppressed.

[cunninglinguist82]

Where is the outrage indeed? You said it all, my friend. Thank you!

[QueenTetisheri]

Um... Have you not seen his mother? He is white. White with a tan.

Idiots keep calling that tom a black man. He wasn't even raised by his black father.