I Hate What You Just Said

Ralph Nader, in effect the best friend giant corporations ever had, may have completed the self-destruction of his entire legacy on election night.  (Also, he somehow managed to make me think “I kind of like that Shepard Smith guy”).

Will Barack Obama be, Ralph asks, an “Uncle Tom for the giant corporations?”

Once upon a time, Nader’s stubborn sense of committment was a good thing. Now, his complete refusal to live in the real world seems to have combined with something else (insensitivity? racism? regular old narcissism?) to make him a really sad figure.

And Ralph appears to think that his way of advocating for important issues has changed. It seems that monkeying with presidential elections is now his way of contributing. Well, I must say that I really, really don’t like his last contribution. Not at all.