Tag: Ralph Nader

Last week a group of liberal activists and academics, led by consumer advocate Ralph Nader and scholar Cornel West, announced they were looking for six “recognizable, articulate” liberal candidates to launch primary challenges against President Barack Obama. The point of the six challengers would be to keep President Obama “honest”…

This is kind of old news (last week’s news already being old), but I still think it’s worth mentioning. During an interview with Fox News, presidential candidate Ralph Nader called president-elect Barack Obama an “Uncle Tom:” I’ll admit there was a time when I actually respected Ralph Nader for being…