Robert Gibbs really is a killer. He took Rove to the mat yesterday, too:

I would be willing to bet you that Karl Rove hung out in the lounge of a country club a lot more often than Barack Obama has. I would think a guy who came to Washington eight years ago and talked about how his version of the Republican party would take over the country for years and years to come, might have cornered the market on arrogance to a degree that not many people have seen before. His president right now, his approval ratings hover somewhere around the national drinking age. So I think it's convenient from a lot of people in Washington to take political advice from Karl Rove. I think if people look at the arc of the Bush presidency and where this thing has ended up, we have had a disastrous foreign policy, our economy is in shambles, our debt and our deficit have skyrocketed. It's really hard to list one or two things that Karl Rove did right over eight years. So, you know, I'll let him do his lecture circuits and coin little phrases, but, it seems like a silly thing.

And besides Ralph Nader, Liberman needs to be slapped. Here is the petition. All you need to do is sign.

http://liebermanmustgo.com

The thing that keeps impressing me is that Obama and his people address this shit in strong language, but they reel off a ton of reasoning and good PR in their answers and don't hem or haw around without getting coarse about any of it.

Man, that guy Lieberman gives me the willies.

Looks like a deadringer for Senator Palpateen!

Cheney has probably got his own helmet and harmonica in that "man-size safe" in his office.

What a pair!

But if you strip him of his chairmanship, then maybe he joins the Dark Side for real and what happens to our slim majority!?

So I'm not signing!

Well Nader probably made the racially charged comment to get the corporate media--and liberal blogs--to cover him, and it worked.

It's always perilous and perhaps offensive to gauge the authenticity of someone's blackness, especially when you're white, but the basic point--that Obama is pushing generally corporate-friendly policies and trying to come across as non-threatening in order to reassure the white-dominated power structure--is indisputable.

Oh, and Nader said Obama didn't advocate a "strong" cracking down on predatory lending, so Ygelesias found no flaw in his statement; he just imagines that he did.

In my best Bill Walton voice: "Throw it down Big Man!!"

This reply system has put all my replies in the wrong places - dammit!

Barack Obama has made a career out of addressing and helping to solve the very problems Nader accuses him of ignoring.

Ralph Nader has made a career out of humiliating himself by running for president every 4 years.

Game. Set. Match. Obama emerges victorious.

This wasn't hard to see coming.

Nothing is more horrifying to an ego like Nader's than to realize that you have become irrelevant. Anyone who saw the latest LAT poll saw that Nader's has absolutely no influence on this election other than to knock a few points off McCain. Imagine the horror for a megalomaniacal shitstain like Nader to look in the papers and see that he has become less relevant than Bob Barr.

Like Ann Coulter, Rush Limbaugh, or any good shock merchant faced with the dreaded bullhorn shrinkage, Nader must now turn up the freak.

I'm just so glad to say that I never, ever, gave this fuck wit anything more than a thumb to my nose.

Speaking of reprehensible comments -
Tweety -- FOR A SECOND DAY IN A ROW -- mixed up Obama and Osama. He said 'Obama put out a tape just before the '04 election'.

He also was seemed to think the thought that Bush put out Red terror alerts to help the election -- despite the fact that people have admitted as much. Does this guy do ANY research??
I am really beginning to hate Tweety. He wasn't fit to shine Tim Russert's shoes.

Nader is both a fraud and a racist. What follows in an exact transcript taken from CNN's website from an interview done on June 21, 2007. Pay careful attention to what he criticizes Clinton for at the end. Nowhere does he accuse her of anything related to her race.

Transcript:

BLITZER: ... accurately conveys your attitude towards Senator Clinton. Senator Hillary Clinton. If Senator John F. Kennedy's best- selling book, "Profiles in Courage" was updated, nothing Hillary Clinton has done in the Congress would come close to being a footnote. You don't -- is that an accurate quote?

NADER: Yes. BLITZER: You don't like her?

NADER: It isn't a matter of liking her. It's a matter of -- she has great name recognition, she's got a terrific political machine. She's not using her political capital to shift power, to challenge abuses of power. Done nothing on the bloated wasteful Pentagon budget. She's on the Senate Armed Services Committee. Nothing on these huge subsidies going to corporations. She hasn't even done anything for the ghettos, in terms of, you know, the serious economic exploitation in the inner city. Not to mention, asbestos and lead in children's bodies. I mean, she knows all about this.

End of transcipt related to issue

The fact is Nader has used this schtick against every Democrat running since 1996. You can find almost the same quotes criticizing Bill Clinton (Living on Earth, May 24, 1996) And John Kerry (Tavis Smiley, PBS, March 5, 2004) and nowhere does he attribute their lack of attention to these "serious corporate crimes" as he likes to characterize them, as due to race except with Obama.

If you google "Nader" plus any of the key issues he says Obama neglects: payday loans, predatory lending, economic exploitation in the ghetto, asbestos, and lead, almost all you will find reference to are those words in conjunction with Nader attacking a Democrat in 1996, 2000, 2004, or 2008.

You won't find those under "Issues" on Nader's current campaign website.

Again, Nader is a fraud and a racist.

BTW, just for fun.... anyone know who is Nader's VP running mate?

San Francisco's very own ultra-progressive darling Matt Gonzalez. Wonder what he thinks of this?