I’m watching the end of Fox News’ election coverage, waiting for the local news to start up, and they are interviewing Ralph Nader. The fox anchor brings up a statement Ralph made to someone else earlier, that it remained to be seen if Obama would turn out to be all americans have hoped for, or “just an Uncle Tom for big business”. It seemed pretty obvious that the fox guy thought Ralph had just mis-spoken, and tried to give him a chance to reword his worries in a little less offensive manner, but Ralph was having none of it, and really making a total ass of himself. I can understand once again, how my friend who used to work with Ralph back in the ’70s, could have such a low opinion of the man. It was pretty obvious that his pride was more important than the message he’d intended to send. It DOES remain to be seen how well Obama will turn out in practice. George W said a lot of stuff about uniting the country in his acceptance speech too.
But everyone knows, you won’t get anyone to listen that far into your statement, if you start it off with racist shit like that.