Nader on Obama last Sunday on Cspan

prytoj

In a campaign interview video with Tabitha Soren, which can be viewed in its entirety at cspan.org 'road to the whitehouse' link:

Soren: Is there any part of you that feels akward about running against a man who could become the first african american president?

Nader: Not at all, becuase I don’t buy this, that we should step aside because this may be the first african american president and it will be an unprecedented upward career move. It’s gotta be more than that. He is in a unique position to stand for the 100 million americans at the bottom of the income ladder: african americans, latinos, poor whites, and put forth a program with credibility because of who he is, where he came from, community organizer, father was a Kenyan, and it’s not happening. And I’m not going to give him a free ride on that.

We used to work in the civil rights movement in the 50’s, 60’s. After a long night we’d sit around having a little food, and people would say “you know, someday if we only had an african american president or if we had the chair of important committees in the congress being held by african americans things would be so different.” Prepare to be dissapointed. Prepare to be betrayed, unless we pull him toward the direction of pregressive liberal positions. Because otherwise the corporations are successfully pulling him in the other direction.

That’s what the flip-flops are signifying. He has raised more money from commercial corporate interests and corporate lawyers by far more than John McCain. Why are these corporate interests investing in him so heavily? That’s a good question. If we don’t pull him and make him better, the corporations will pull him and make him worse.

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Nader does oppose John McCain on many things )obv.), but I thought this was pretty compelling.

MrBrian

Spot on again Mr Nader,

igotid88

I wondered what happened to Tabitha Soren.

prytoj

igotid88 wrote:

I wondered what happened to Tabitha Soren.

I know, talk about flashback

eekamouse

So... wtf is Ed and company's problem with Nader.... -_-

bootlegger10

eekamouse wrote:

So... wtf is Ed and company's problem with Nader.... -_-

They joined the anti-Republican cause, and left their ideals behind.

prytoj

This statement, to me, punches the biggest hole in the argument for an Obama presidency made by the working class.

Vote with your head, not your heart.

jasonw

igotid88 wrote:

I wondered what happened to Tabitha Soren.

I didn't watch the video yet, but I used to have a big crush on her in the mtv days....so pretty.

sweetpotato

Nader's a bitter old fart and that colors everything he says anymore. Not that anything he says has any relevance to the election. But still.

prytoj

sweetpotato wrote:

Nader's a bitter old fart and that colors everything he says anymore. Not that anything he says has any relevance to the election. But still.

YEAH,
he don't know JACK about civil rights and corporate greed. He's just a curmudgeon.

sweetpotato

prytoj wrote:

YEAH,
he don't know JACK about civil rights and corporate greed. He's just a curmudgeon.

no, he knows plenty. shit lot of good it's doing, tho. if he's so concerned about obama being sucked in by corporations, why doesn't he pony up and join the campaign to get the guy elected and actually show some support for a candidate who's actually in the running who has even a fart's grasp of the issues nader's so involved with? instead of badmouthing him, why doesn't nader HELP? becuase he's a bitter old fart, that's why. he doesn't want a decent person for president. he wants NADER for president, and no one else will do.

good plan.

Urban Hiker

sweetpotato wrote:

no, he knows plenty. shit lot of good it's doing, tho. if he's so concerned about obama being sucked in by corporations, why doesn't he pony up and join the campaign to get the guy elected and actually show some support for a candidate who's actually in the running who has even a fart's grasp of the issues nader's so involved with? instead of badmouthing him, why doesn't nader HELP? becuase he's a bitter old fart, that's why. he doesn't want a decent person for president. he wants NADER for president, and no one else will do.

good plan.

Did you watch the interview? It's still up on Cspan. Nader actually discusses taking a position within the Obama administration.

prytoj

sweetpotato wrote:

no, he knows plenty. shit lot of good it's doing, tho. if he's so concerned about obama being sucked in by corporations, why doesn't he pony up and join the campaign to get the guy elected and actually show some support for a candidate who's actually in the running who has even a fart's grasp of the issues nader's so involved with? instead of badmouthing him, why doesn't nader HELP? becuase he's a bitter old fart, that's why. he doesn't want a decent person for president. he wants NADER for president, and no one else will do.

good plan.

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