Comments on: Ralph Nader no friend of President Obama…

By: Citizen Zen

Citizen Zen — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 17:05:08 +0000

Mr. Hutchinson-

with all due respect, sir, you really should apologize to
Mr. Nader, as well as review his countless contributions to America!

Read *the good fight* by ralph nader and check out his blog at
http://www.nader.org and http://www.anunreasonableman.com

By: Shaman

Shaman — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 03:32:40 +0000

“….the still heavy historical cross he’ll always bear as the “spoiler” who tipped the election to George W. Bush in 2000….”

Whenever I see this tired old B.S. myth about Nader (still hauled out after 11 years has gone by) inserted into an article, I immediately know the author is suffering from HUA (Head Up Arse) syndrome.

If the World Series was conducted in the same manner as these asinine presidential elections, sports fans would be burning down the stadiums.

By: zhon

zhon — Sat, 13 Aug 2011 02:53:06 +0000

Earl Ofari Hutchinson has no idea what he is talking about. theblackman.com should stop “publishing” his drivel. Ralph Nader is a brilliant man.

By: greg

greg — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 19:53:11 +0000

gotta agree with everyone else.. this is a bigoted hit piece.. you should listen to cornel west, he’s no friend of obama either. last time i looked we were all one race, the human race! grow up, look around.. we’re in trouble! you should be worried for all americans! all of us!! this hit piece makes me shake my head. just because obama isn’t white, that doesn’t mean he won’t sell you out!

By: You're an idiot

You're an idiot — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 00:32:22 +0000

Good lord, you’re an idiot.

By: ornel

ornel — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 00:31:55 +0000

i like nader and don’t like rampant speculation that a challeng will not happen. if democrats, liberals, moderates, the elderly, sick, poor, and unemployed have picked up a paper in the last three years, he will have a challenger. will they win? who knows. i for one will not be voting for obama. i can’t afford to. social security and medicare need to be in place for those who have 80 plus thousand paid in. obama is willing to savage all of us to play golf with boehner. i will vote green or libertarian if he is fouling the dem. ticket.

By: vijay

vijay — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 20:02:31 +0000

The difference between Obama and Nader .. .

is the difference between a mouse and a man

By: Gene Debs

Gene Debs — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 16:50:00 +0000

It’s shameful that an African-American professed progressive like Earl Ofari Hutchinson would write such a bigoted piece, which all but celebrates the labyrinthine obstacles the two major parties have erected against political competition from minor party and independent candidates. How could Hutchinson fail to note the similarities between the “crushing requirements of exorbitant ballot fees [and] massive numbers of signatures required” of minor party and independent candidates, and the poll taxes and literacy tests of the Jim Crow south? Rather than condemn such unconstitutional and anti-democratic barriers to participation, however, Hutchinson derides Nader as a “spoiler” and “to most, a pariah.”

Grow up, Mr. Hutchinson. You can’t support civil rights while making such attacks upon a citizen for the perceived crime of attempting to run for public office in an ostensibly democratic society. The premise of your entire position is that Nader and others should subordinate their constitutional right to democratic participation lest they “spoil” the election for your preferred candidate. People used to say similar things to justify disenfranchisement of African-Americans and women, but they are not remembered as progressives or champions of civil rights.

By: vijay

vijay — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 15:30:22 +0000

As a Nader voter and supporter—this article is extremely biased and plays loose with the truth.

If we listened to Nader decades ago–we would not have been in this mess. Obama is not a progressive, he hands 80% to the racist republicans–he doesnt fight for the common man/woman.

Nader is someone who has fought for the common man for 50 years. People demonize him standing up for what he believes in (single payer, end of wars, fair taxation, voting equality for blacks). Obama hasnt done squat–(he even continued the Bush bailout and Bush wars–and we expect the rogue author of this piece that we should just shut up and keep quiet because Obama is entitled to no challenger?

And dont get me started on Gore—who is a spoiler. I hate him

By: David

David — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 00:50:32 +0000

I will hang with Obama..but he needs to learn to STEP UP. He acts like he and the Republicans “could be friends”. I hope Obama toughens up. The Tea Party lunatics are a threat, like these juvenile delinquents.