The man who did more, arguably, than any other to condemn us to the Bush era comes out swinging against the Obama era, wondering if Obama will be "Uncle Sam or Uncle Tom?"
As Andrew Golis e-mailed, "At a certain level, this strikes me as a nice punctuation to end the era of Bush. The man who helped start it finishes it by racially smearing the man who has now ended it. On another level, it's just so fucking sad." I'd just add that Nader's political opinions have long since ceased being relevant to his role in American politics. It's been unclear for some time whether he actually holds leftist positions but doesn't care to see progress towards them or just uses a leftie agenda so he has some fig leaf rationale for why people should continue to pay attention to his spoiler campaigns. But there's no ideological defense for a man who continually pursues a strategy meant to set back progress towards his goals. You could argue, of course, that in 2000, he didn't know better. That it was an accident. But in 2004 and 2008 he did. At that point, his efforts to elect Republicans ceased being an accident and emerged, fairly clearly, as a plan. That he wasn't an appealing enough figure to carry it out is neither here nor there.
