Ralph Nader Blasts The President: Calls Obama “A Frightened Man”

The politician who commemorated Barack Obama‘s election by pointedly asking if Obama was going to be an “Uncle Tom for the giant corporations” is at it again.

In an interview with Yahoo Finance’s Tech Ticker, Ralph Nader lashed out at the president on a variety of scores, calling him “a frightened man” and “Bush-Cheney redux” and mocking his Nobel Peace Prize win, saying the Nobel Committee must have been “eating too many sardines.”

These weren’t just offhanded comments: almost all of the five-and-a-half minute interview is devoted to criticizing Obama, on fronts from health care to corporate governance to the war in Afghanistan. It’s a sign of Nader’s fallen star that he gave such a juicy, inflammatory interview to Tech Ticker, of all outlets. And even though it was posted at noon yesterday — in blog time, a full day is an eternity — it’s gotten barely any coverage.

The Huffington Post wrote about Tech Ticker’s Nader interview, but bizarrely omitted all criticism of Obama from the piece, focusing instead on a different segment where he calls out the Federal Reserve. This is not in the same league as titling a column about all of the sporting events Jaycee Dugard missed during her years of captivity “Many odd things have happened in sports the past 18 years,” but there seems to be a similar principle of making the story sound deliberately boring so no one will look into it.

Here’s the video:

(via Metafilter)

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