reason.com - 11/6/2008
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It's going to take a while for Americans and pundits (often the same thing!) to adjust to a black president. There are cliches and turns of phrase and narratives that simply won't sound right if applied to a black man. Ralph Nader's getting a head start on this. His choice, basically, is whether ...
freep.com - 11/5/2008
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freep.com —
Ralph Nader, the self-styled consumer crusader and perennial
third-party presidential candidate, has conceded, telling the Free Press
about 7 tonight that there was going to be a landslide for Barack Obama. The streets are going to be filled with ...
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The Incredible Shrinking Ralph Nader: His “Uncle Tom” Remark About Obama
The Moderate Voice —
Yes, Ralph Nader ran again and place bets now that he’ll run in 2012 or beyond, even if he has to be wheeled from appearance. And This received a sliver of the kind of support he once had this year, which would have been enough to decrease his shrinking legacy — and he seemed determined on election night to reduce his legacy even mroe.
On election night — as even GOP strategist Karl Rove expressed awe at the historical moment and Obama’s achievement — Nader framed Obama’s choice in a way that raised eyebrows. Watch the video below showing Ralph Nader with Fox News’ Shepard Smith, ...
Microblog 2008-11-05
Overlawyered —
“Friend named superlawyer five years after she quit practice” [@vpynchon] #
Unreality meets unreality: inmate Jonathan Lee Riches files third-party brief in World of Warcraft case [Duranske, Virtually Blind] #
Uh-oh: new White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel is on record as a supporter of “universal citizen service” [Lindgren @ Volokh] #
Ralph Nader is vile (but you knew that) [Weigel, Reason "Hit and Run"] #
U.K.: new pet welfare regs could mean jail for owners who fail to put obese dogs and cats on a diet ...
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firstread.msnbc.msn.com 11/4/2008 —
From MSNBC.com's Bob Sullivan Satire.
That's how Ralph Nader closed his third-party presidential campaign today at a small press conference in Washington D.C.'s National Press Club. He instructed reporters that he would only give one-word ...
Obama Taps Ralph Nader to Run GM, Nader Joins UAW
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Nader: Will Obama be an Uncle Tom?
hotair.com 11/5/2008 — This doesn’t exactly qualify as a shocking statement any more from the self-appointed Arbiter of Black Authenticity , but at least last time , Ralph Nader didn’t utter the phrase “Uncle Tom”. [...] Read the rest »
Kos Dances on the Nader Campaign's Grave
blogs.abcnews.com 11/17/2008 — Kos dismisses Ralph Nader's 2008 campaign as historically irrelevant and then after a reader protests, says: "Anyone who sails with the Nader crowd deserves nothing more than ridicule. F--- Ralph Nader, and f--- his supporters. If the past eight years...
Stay Classy, Team Sarah
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A day after winning a historic victory that will make him the first black president in the nation's history, Barack Obama remained largely out of public view yesterday while his aides announced the first details of an ambitious plan for the transfer ...
Newspapers grabbed up after Obama's historic win —
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - It was a good day to be in the newspaper business. The historic November 5 editions proclaiming Barack Obama's White House victory flew off the newsstands and major newspapers struggled to keep up with the demand for copies.
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