{"id":9333,"date":"2009-12-18T04:41:03","date_gmt":"2009-12-18T11:41:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=9333"},"modified":"2009-12-18T04:41:03","modified_gmt":"2009-12-18T11:41:03","slug":"shut-up-ralph-nader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=9333","title":{"rendered":"Shut Up, Ralph Nader"},"content":{"rendered":"

You know, if I was someone who was instrumental in ensuring the election of George W. Bush to the White House, I’d hide my head in shame. But not Ralph Nader. No, he’s back, happily using racist epithets to refer to the current president<\/a>, who is, at last check, an African-American:<\/p>\n

Nader, who has been viciously critical of Obama since before his inauguration, said he was encouraged to see many of the president\u2019s campaign allies beginning to turn on his agenda.<\/p>\n

\u201cIs the title of your article \u2018I told you so?\u2019\u201d he asked. \u201cThis is what I meant a year ago when I said the next year will determine whether Barack Obama will be an Uncle Tom groveling before the demands of the corporations that are running our country or he\u2019ll be an Uncle Sam standing up for the American people.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"nader\"You know, words really fail me. I don’t really know what possesses an old white guy to use the words “Uncle Tom,” you know, ever<\/em>, but I really don’t get why a soi disant<\/em> progressive would use those words to describe the first African American to serve as president. Quite frankly, it’s disgusting, and it stands as exhibit 3,492 in my ongoing argument that Ralph Nader is one of the worst humans alive today.<\/p>\n

I will note that Nader is a big Kill the Bill guy. Now, I know that in and of itself doesn’t prove that killing the bill would be a disaster of Brobdingnagian proportions for the Democrats, one that would cause the party to spiral out of control for years. I mean, hey, Nader was right about the Ford Pinto, so, you know, it’s possible he could be right again. But I do know that given his record since 2000, if Ralph Nader says the sky is blue, I’m going to assume it’s pink until further examination. After all, he once declared there wasn’t a dime’s worth of difference between Al Gore and George W. Bush, and…well, let’s just say that didn’t exactly work out for the United States, humanity as a whole, or the universe in general.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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