So... why did Nader call Pres-Elect Obama an "Uncle Tom"?

[Curtland1015]

...other than Nader being bat-shit insane that is.

I didn't see what happened there, but what were they talking about at the time? Did it just pop out because he was raging?

[RollWithIt]

1. Because he's a sell-out for the Republican Party and a Closet Racist?

Pretty obvious.

[BlueStateGirl]

2. Because he is an attention seeking asshat. n/t

[PBS Poll-435]

3. I think he meant to say "Uncle Ben"

:shrug:

[BrklynLiberal]

4. All of the above.

[Bolo Boffin]

5. He didn't quite call Obama an Uncle Tom.

He said that Obama had the choice to be Uncle Sam and serve the country or Uncle Tom to the corporations.

It was extremely ill-advised for him to say, but Nader's elevator seems to have stopped going to the top recently.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYKyts6EdSw

[Orsino]

9. Yeah. He *may* be racist, but he's definitely tone-deaf.

He not only used the term, but refused a few chances to take it back--and of course has never apologized.

Doofus.

[blondeatlast]

6. It gave him another 5 mitutes of media interest. nt

[SuperTrouper]

7. Because Nader is confused about the book "Uncle Tom's Cabin"...he meant "Uncle Ralph's Log Cabin"

[Whoa20]

8. he wants attention,

c'mon, was that hard to figure out?

[Monk06]

10. Nader's problem is that he thinks he is Noam Chomsky except that Chomsky

has a sense of modesty and proportion. Unlike
Nader Chomsky knows that he is a Utopian Socialist
in a country ruled by RW laissez faire libertarians

[spanone]

11. here's the video of nader sayin' it

https://www.dtv2009.gov/ApplyCoupon.aspx

[RepublicanElephant]

12. attention whore. nt

[TexasObserver]

13. Because Ralph Nader is an Attention Sponge who will do anything to get it.

[leftofthedial]

14. because Nader is a tool.