Politics | Ralph Nader Obama 'Wants to Talk White': Nader Third-party maverick says Dem avoids poverty, favors 'appeal to white guilt' By Jonas Oransky Posted Jun 25, 2008 4:02 PM CDT Copied Supporter of Independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader holds up a banner during a news conference outside of the Nuclear Energy Institute in Washington, Thursday, May 29, 2008. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana) Ralph Nader says Barack Obama "wants to talk white" and "appeal to white guilt" while ignoring poverty, the third-party presidential candidate told the Rocky Mountain News yesterday. The consumer advocate said the only thing that separated Obama from past Democrats is that he’s “half African-American," charging Obama was betraying his background by not prioritizing the defense of the poor. "He wants to show that he is not … another politically threatening African-American politician," Nader said. "Basically he's coming on as someone who is not going to threaten the white power structure, whether it's corporate or whether it's simply oligarchic. And they love it. Whites just eat it up." An Obama rep dismissed the comments as "reprehensible" and "downright delusional." Read These Next We knew Letterman would pipe up about Colbert eventually. The sheriff says he's never seen a worse case of child sex abuse. Journal pulls a controversial paper on arsenic after 15 years. Google exposes man's butt, is ordered to pay him $12.5K. Report an error