Crazy Old Leftist (UPDATED)

Yeah those "Republicans" are O So Racist, aren't they?

I haven’t heard [Obama] have a strong crackdown on economic exploitation in the ghettos. Payday loans, predatory lending, asbestos, lead. What’s keeping him from doing that? Is it because he wants to talk white? He doesn’t want to appear like Jesse Jackson? We’ll see all that play out in the next few months and if he gets elected afterwards.

---Ralph Nader

What? What's that I hear you say? Ralph Nader's not a Republican? He's a Liberal? Wait, wait. He's not a Liberal, but a hard core Leftist? Hmm.

Interestingly enough, Nader seems to be attacking Obama for at least giving lip service (and we know what that's worth) to addressing the needs of all Americans, not just the black ones. The fact that Obama would be the president of all Americans is something which I must repeatedly remind many of my fellow black Americans.

But Nader's view is so skewed by his Leftism, he thinks that there's something wrong with this. And his view is equally as adversely affected by his stereotypes of black people; he thinks that "ghetto issues" are of chief concern among blacks. 'Cause he thinks we all live in a ghetto where our kids are breathing asbestos and eating lead-based paint chips.

[Obama] wants to appeal to white guilt. You appeal to white guilt not by coming on as black is beautiful, black is powerful. Basically he's coming on as someone who is not going to threaten the white power structure, whether it's corporate or whether it's simply oligarchic. And they love it. Whites just eat it up.

But wait, Ralph. Didn't you just imply that he's not appealing enough to white guilt?

Dementia, I say.

(Thanks to Memeorandum)

UPDATE: Protein Wisdom's Karl points out that Obama has indeed talked about predatory lending and notes other areas addressed to which Nader obviously hasn't been paying attention. I still say it's dementia. ADD is one of the symptoms.

UPDATE: Robert A. George:

The real interesting thing about Obama running is that just by being himself, he has managed to draw out into the light the different strains of racism that has always implicitly hovered around the Democratic Party and the Left in general. [SNIP]

Nader presumes to tell a black person what that black person is supposed to be talking about.

Because it's all about the ownership.

(Thanks to Booker Rising)