Oh, boy. Ralph Nader is at it again, accusing Barack Obama of being too weak a Democratic candidate on the grounds that he's ... acting white.

In an interview with the Rocky Mountain News, Nader lambasted Obama for not discussing poverty enough. "What's keeping him from doing that?" Nader asked. "Is it because he wants to talk white? He doesn't want to appear like Jesse Jackson?"

In a widely anticipated move, Ralph Nader announced this morning on Meet The Press that he is running for president again as an independent. Nader acknowledged that he has no chance of winning, but felt his candidacy can do good for the country:

One feels an obligation, Tim, to try to open the doorways, to try to get better ballot access, to respect dissent in America in the terms of third parties and, and independent candidates; to recognize historically that great issues have come in our history against slavery and women rights to vote and worker and farmer progressives, through little parties that never ran--won any national election. Dissent is the mother of ascent. And in that context, I have decided to run for president.

Nader does have a point. For example, nobody can reasonably deny that Nader's 2000 campaign changed the course of history.