tact: i don't haz itinoahNovember 6 2008, 01:23:45 UTC
It's too bad the man doesn't have a better sense of rhetoric, because I pretty much agree with him in being paranoid of corporations, and I suspect Obama will not, in fact, put forth any radical change in business regulation.
But good lord, he could have picked a less racially loaded metaphor.
Re: tact: i don't haz itsaviaNovember 6 2008, 02:09:17 UTC
Yes, I like you see what Nader was trying to do, but given what his unapologetic response was, it's clear that he already sees Obama as an "Uncle Tom," and I'm sorry, but he just doesn't get to call anybody that.
Dude, I voted for Obama, but Nader was right. He has every right to ask that question.
And the Fox guy can go fuck himself-they hate Obama, he has a lot of balls acting indignant that nader has insulted him. He's a fucking hypocrite, the way they always are at Fox.
Oh, I think they had him on for exactly the same reason Randi Rhodes of Air America had him on four years ago -- to humiliate him, essentially.
But the thing is, Nader has no humility. He's incapable of reexamining his decisions because that's too much like self-doubt. The same bullheadishness that made him such a powerful consumer advocate when he still did stuff like that has put him on this path that's made him nothing but a perennial candidate and . . . well, a crank, essentially. It's destroyed all his goodwill and credibility over the last 8 years and made it impossible for him to get any of the good work done that was his mission up until 2000 -- when he became the issue and his mission, bullheaded as always, became simply Nader for Nader. All just because he'll be damned if he'll go back on anything. Problem is, he's damned if he don't as well.
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And the Fox guy can go fuck himself-they hate Obama, he has a lot of balls acting indignant that nader has insulted him. He's a fucking hypocrite, the way they always are at Fox.
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But the thing is, Nader has no humility. He's incapable of reexamining his decisions because that's too much like self-doubt. The same bullheadishness that made him such a powerful consumer advocate when he still did stuff like that has put him on this path that's made him nothing but a perennial candidate and . . . well, a crank, essentially. It's destroyed all his goodwill and credibility over the last 8 years and made it impossible for him to get any of the good work done that was his mission up until 2000 -- when he became the issue and his mission, bullheaded as always, became simply Nader for Nader. All just because he'll be damned if he'll go back on anything. Problem is, he's damned if he don't as well.
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