that video was funny i thought for a minute it was another valtrex commercial or somethin..

not another one of these i was thinkin..lol…they are worst than period commercials…which i also dont get..hell women know they need tampax i dont need to see a commercial about mother nature and her periods every five mins..eww

oh and ralph nader is a douche…he needs to go eat a ….

Ralph Nader is on point .

Nader is one of those gnats that just won’t go away with a swat of the hand. He may mean no harm, but he’s just annoying. The guy really serves no purpose in politics and really doesn’t deserve his share of oxygen. How can he bash Obama for not running a “keeping it real” type campaign? Obama doesn’t appeal to white guilt, he appeals to colorless change.

But most importantly, who is Ralph Nader influential to?! I’m getting tired of everyone wanting Obama to be “Super Politcian Man” with an “SP” embroidered on his chest or something. The man is taking it one day at a time. You haven’t heard him speak on every issue yet because it’s July. The dust from Hillary battle is still settling.

Crooked politician, huh? So what does that make you Ralph?

——-LOL at Nader he is really bitter and need to sit down—-where he been obama
——is black/white- i’m so tired of the media saying he maybe our first black pres.
——he maybe our first knowing bi-racial pres..i say knowing because everybody
——is not just one color -everybody is mix with something

I LOVE OBAMA && WHAT HE STANDS FOR BUT I DO THINK THESE CHANNELS SHOULD GIVE EQUAL ATTENTION TO BOTH CANIDATESSO PEOPLE CAN DECIDE FOR THEMSELVES.

RALPH NADER JUST FORGET IT YOUR DEFINATELY NOW GOING TO WIN

Ralph Nader is saying some very powerful stuff wherther you agree or disagree. There are a lot of scam loan facilities in the poor neighborhoods. I believe the class that’s most overlooked is the poor vote. Everyone wants the middle class vote because that’s the vote that most represents the belief system of America. You might not like what he says because it’s truth and truth hurts sometimes.

Listen my fellow black people. Don’t vote for Barack because he’s black, vote for him if you believe he’s the most competent for the job. Voting him for because he’s black and only because he’s black is very dangerous.

Nader fader, he’s irrelevant.

Let’s praise the fact that Obama is bustin his ass to inrease his lead.. little by little he’s doing so. GO OBAMA!!!

*******I have hope the commerical does have a skit vibe to it like SNL
*******They may want to change it a little
*******Nader sit your wack self down NOBODY is thinking about you

*yawn

OBAMA 08!

………….George Stephinopolous already put him (Nader) in the hot seat a few
…………..weeks back and called him on the carpet about some misstated facts over
;;…………regarding Obama’s record. So I guess now he’s really pissed. Tell ‘em
……………why you mad son. lol

Ok, sure, there’s a lot of things placed in our neighborhoods that are doing more harm than good. Nader is speaking the truth about what’s going on in these neighborhoods, but shit, when is the last time HE HIMSELF ate a plate of soul food?

I understand where Nader is coming from but come on. Obama is not running the typical “black campaign” for a reason. He’s including both sides because thats what a politician should do. It’s extremely close-minded of Nader to suggest that Obama should be out there in Central Park breakdancing and handing out campaign buttons. Or freestyling on the mic at a local block party in Philly, while rhyming his name with llama, comma, ganja or sauna.

Please get over the fact that Obama is black. Recognize that he is qualified to run this country and accept it.

J. Dakar, if you want to reference various polls on here, please put the most recent ones. The Gallup poll you are referring to is from last week. I just went and read today’s gallup poll and it’s only a four point spread for Obama (46-42). From all the polls I have seen that is about as big as his lead gets. Rasmussen only has him up by two, and like every other poll it’s around that area 4 points above to actually being below McCain. People check out these polls and other data for yourself, whether something of you like it or not this race is tight and it shouldn’t be with the way the republicans have done the last 8 years.

Don’t you put that on me Ricky Bobby,
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Please do not insult the intelligence of every person of color to assume that they do not have enough sense to vote for a quality candidate for president. I am tired of people ( particularly black ones) using this as a way to pretend they are ” concern” when they are really just being insulting and over-bearing.

Ralph Nader has been doing this mess for years. If you are a fool enough to vote for him as if you are proving something, then you deserve all the suffering you experience under a Republican president.

I was about to comment on Obama but then came across this more than DISRESPECTFUL ad for a book proclaiming Jesus never existed. I’m all for respecting people’s opinions but I must say that I am offended and would not expect to see this on ConcreteLoop so blatantly displayed. I don’t want to leave your site because I am a REGULAR but may I politely ask that you please remove this ad. Thank you.

I apologize, the ad is for a dvd proclaiming Jesus never existed, not a book…equally disrespectful.

J. Dakar, please do not try to lead these people on this blog along. That poll you are referring to is from last week and the new gallup poll as of July 30th only has Obama up by 4 points. And most national polls I read are around that area or even have McCain ahead. That’s been the big question that is on all the political sites, why isn’t Obama ahead by 15+ points. Past elections, even the dems that didn’t eventually win the presidency were ahead in the summer by at least 10+ pts. Obama is dead even with McCain. Obama’s lead is not growing and neither is McCain, but I read on Rasmussen where the group of undecided voters are growing and most of that group identify themselves as democrats.

I kinda feel Nader on what he is saying, but you can’t change the world in one day…we as black people have to ease our way into these positions of power, we can’t go in swinging and saying Black is Beautiful and all that other preachy things, no matter what we believe. Doing that is a way to get yourself knocked out of the election primaries, because Whites definitely won’t go for it. Like I said, he has a point, but to be so outspoken about the “Truth” will get you nowhere. Look at Nader, after 4 tries, he has yet to become president. I wonder why. Now on the other hand, while there is this stigma out there of picking the lesser of two evils…this won’t ever go away because while you and I may be Democrats and may agree on some of the same issues, there may be others that we can’t see eye to eye on. In that case, you just have to weigh what’s most important to you and make a decision. Barack is the candidate for change, however slow it may be…I’ll take it. People will be ready to say (when he’s elected), I told you so and he hasn’t done anything, just to say we made a mistake but the thing is, nothing happens overnight. While we may want immediate relief for many things, some we may just have to accept as Barack will be laying the groundwork for change, something that someone else after him will continue. I hope to God that Nader doesn’t mess this up for US as he did in the Gore/Bush election. Believe it or not, in a way his votes that he gets are throwaway votes because in a system where majority counts, he will take some votes away from the Democratic party as he did in the previous election where if it was just between Democrats and Republicans then, the Dems would have a better chance. I do appreciate choices though, we need other options and the respect that we can think differently, that’s why you can’t really be mad at Nader…it’s the voters who need to realize that. If you have to…look at it as the LESSER OF TWO EVILS…THAT WAY WE WON’T HAVE A REPEAT OF THE BUSH TRAGEDY!

…..DONT WORRY ABOUT NADER, I LIKE TO THANK HIM FOR OUTING HIMSELF
…..AS ANOTHER HATER OF OBAMA, HE IS A PART OF THE OLD GUARD, AND
…..IS THREATNED THAT THEIR FEAST IS COMING TO A END. PUTTING A B….BLACK MAN IN THE WHITE HOUSE ENDS WHAT THEY VALUE AND THAT I IS POWER. KEEP FIGHTING BARACK YOU HAVE THEM ON THE RUN.

um, no his lead has gone down since then when it was 49-40. in the usa today poll mccain is leading.

nader, no thank u. what a looser

NADER IS A FACIST AND RACIST, AND I AM SO TIRED OF HIS ASS!!!

I can understand where Nader is coming from, but only on a very low level. In a time as crucial as now when the economy is down the drain, people are losing their jobs left and right, and gas is damn near $5, it would be extremely dangerous for Obama to run a campaign based strictly on race. Though the minority communities are always the hardest hit in any crisis, he would be isolating himself from the rest of a nation if all he spoke about is change in black communities. He’s not running for president of BET. He’s runing for president of the US which happens to include a multitude of races. And in all reality, its taken Bush and his administration 8 years to destroy the economic state and everything you would think America stands for, so change will not be immediate. Everyone can identify with the need for change and evolution at this point in time. People keep saying he’s not experienced enough…blah blah blah. Bush was thought to be experienced and look where we are now? Over $400 BILLION in debt as a country.

Lets stop focusing so much on the fact that Obama is black but that he is qualified and the best person for the job.

NADER NEEDS TO SIT THE HELL DOWN
YES OBAMA IS THE MOST FAMOUS PERSON IN THE WORLD. MORE THAN HANNAH MONTANA AND RHIANNA,. THIS IS BECAUSE PPL ARE EXCITED ABOUT HIM WE ARE READY FOR THAT CHANGE. HE DIDNT ASK FOR 200,000 GERMANS TO COME HEAR HIM SPEAK. THEY CAME FREELY. THEY WISH HE WERE THEIR PRESIDENT. BUT HE WILL BE OURS. MCCAIN AND NADER ARE BOTH JEALOUS. MCCAIN WISH HE HAD THE POWERFUL MOVEMENT AND MEDIA COVERAGE AS OBAMA. THE NEWS SENT 3 OF THEIR TOP REPORTERS TO REPORT ON OBAMAS OVERSEAS TOUR. THEY SENT NONE FOR MCCAIN’S. YES MCCAIN IS A WAR VERTERAN BUT THATS DOESNT MEAN HE WILL DO ANTTHING AND EVERYTHING TO HELP THIS COUNTRY. HE MIGHT OF FOUGHT FOR THIS COUNTRY, BUT IS HE READY TO SERVE IT? SERVE AND REPESENT THE YOUNG BLACK SINGLE WOMAN ON WELFARE OR THE YOUNG BLACK MAN TRYING TO HELP HIS FAMILY AND FUTRTHER HIS EDUCATION? OR HOW ABOUT ME A YOUNG BLACK WOMAN WHO IS STRUGGLING TO GET LOANS AND SCHOLARSHIPS TO GO TO SCHOOL. IT IS EASIER FOR ME TO GET ON WALFARE THAN IT IS FOR ME TO GET AN ACADEMIC SCHOLARSHIP TO GO TO COLLEGE. THATS A SHAME. MCCAIN WHAT ARE YOU GONNA DO ABOUT THAT?

ALSO OBAMA PROPOSES TO GIVE $4,000 TO EVERY GRADUATING SENIOR FOR COLLEGE. THE ONLY REQUIREMENT IS THEY HAVE TO DO COMMUNITY SERVICE. WHICH I THINK IS EXCELLENT.
“SERVE YOUR COUNTRY AND YOUR COUNTRY WILL SERVE YOU.”

^^^#!19 Crucial, i have to agree with you. Nader’s statements are slightly valid. But in order for Obama to win over the hearts of America he HAS to appeal to white voters. He’s not just running to be the black president but for Prez of the US.

Still, Ralph Nader is clearly stupid and has to have been bribed to run for prez. Now me? I don’t even LIKE politicians. I think they’re twisted, which is how you play the game in the world of politics. Hillary, Obama, McCain, they’re all the same breed to me. But if you’re choosing the lesser of two evils? CLEARLY the most evil is McCain who’s proposed policies would entirely ruin our country’s infrastructure. We’d be sent back to the dark ages if he wins. It really bothers me to think about that.

I dont entirely trust Obama, because no politicians “hands are clean” like Obama said himself. But he’s still loads better than McCain.

Ralph Nader is the one treating Obama like a second-class citizen, as if Obama should appeal to black voters alone. So does Ralph Nader actually think that he’S the black president? That he can speak for mistreated black people?

Come on, get that sh** outta here…

goooooooooooo OBAMA 08′ please black people get out and vote take the entire posse along!!!! but ya must register first!!!!

These comments too long to be readin this is not a personal blog

As far as Obama stay away from certain balck issues is because he doesn’t want to come off as a pro Black politician. I understand it. He wants to be elected. And white America will not vote a candidate they see as a threat. Someone who is going to constantly point out the injustince in the system. But like I said I understand the logic, Obama has to get the white votes and he has to seem like he has their best interest at heart also. Like my grandmother used to all ways tell me. “Son, you have to learn how to kiss ass before you can kick it”

LOL i had no idea nader ran for president 4 times. i think he’s jealous obama is making moves.

and that commercial..i see you shawn from boy meets world!

Nader gets on my last nerve…he has no chance of becoming President, and in every Presidential election he pops up criticizing the Democratic candidate primarily. He knows he’ll never be President, but he’s an attention whore and (I believe) he’s being funded by the GOP to hurt the Democratic party’s chances in November.

Someone really needs to get Ralph Nader’s ass on up outta here, because he’s going to make this campaign really hard for Obama to win. Y’all remember what happened back in 2000 win Al Gore almost won it but he lacked the votes that Nader took when the Independents voted for Nader so thats who really need to focus on.

He does this everytime a general election comes up, so the Democrats need to really pull together this time around. Because he suits no purpose but to make sure no Democrat gets in.

My comment for Nadar is what are you doing to fix these issues that you are so deeply concerned about?

Obama 08

mr. nader?…you’re not making sense

I am very surprise that Concreteloop have not publish Ludacris hateful rap song about Hillary, McCain, and Jesse Jackson. It is all over the internet and in some media outlets.

lmao @ tarina.

A gnat? Serves no purpose in politics? You shouldn’t open your mouth when the sh!t that comes out of it is full of ignorance.

The Great Obama. The first time he ran for political office was for the Illinois House of Representatives (this is state not US). In order to get on the ballot in Illinois every candidate must gather signatures. What Obama did was send in a dozen Harvard attorneys to challenge all the signatures until none of the other 5 candidates could get on the ballot. Including the 12 year incumbent. Do you think a 12 year incumbent is “non-viable”? Obviously she is. He abused the system to eliminate all the other choices.

After that he ran for the US House of Representatives. He tried to do the same thing, but failed because the Republicans were automatically allowed on the ballot. He lost the election.

Next up the Senate. Obama’s campaign discovered that Ryan had had a messy divorce with his ex-wife, Jeri Ryan. Jeri Ryan was an actress, she portrayed Seven of Nine in Star Trek Voyager. In the custody battle for their son, she alledged that her husband, Jack Ryan, had asked her to go to sex clubs and perform sex in public, which she refused. Jack Ryan dropped out of the race to prevent any embarrassment to his son.

His destruction and misuse of the democratic system is enough to make me weary.

I don’t support McCain any more than I support Obama, but you call Nader a gnat, insignificant and crocked? Wow.

Nader makes $3 million a year (thanks to GM) but donates it all to organizations while living off $25,000 a year. He does not own a house or a car (he rides a bicycle). He does not have a family. He is 100% devoted to his work for citizen activism and really has no other life. Here is a list of issues that he is running on (platform):

Total US Military & Corporate Withdrawal from Iraq
Single Payer National Health Insurance
Living wage for all workers to $10 a hour minimum
Solar Energy First, Nuclear alternatively
Repeal the Taft-Hartley Anti-Union Law
Open up Presidential Debates
Adopt the National Initiative
End Ballot Obstructionism
Work to end corporate personhood

Legislation that Mr. Nader has been instrumental in passing:

Clean Air Act
Clean Water Act
Consumer Credit Disclosure Law
Consumer Product Safety Act
Co-Op Bank Bill
Federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act
Foreign Corrupt Practices Act
Freedom of Information Act
Funeral home cost disclosure law
Environmental Protection Agency Enactment Law
Medical Devices Safety Act
Mine Health and Safety Act
Mobile home safety Act
National Automobile and Highway Traffic Safety Act
National Traffic and Motor vehicle Safety Act
Natural Gas Pipeline Safety Act
Nuclear Power Safety
Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA)
Pension Protection Law
Safe Water Drinking Act
Tire Safety and Grading Disclosure Law
Wholesome Meat Act
Wholesome Poultry Product Act

Public Organizations that Nader founded:

American Antitrust Institute (prevents monopolies)
Applesee Foundation
Arizona Center for Law in the Public Interest
Aviation Consumer Action Project
Buyers Up
Capitol Hill News Service
Center for Auot Safety
Center for Insurance Research
Center for Justice and Democracy
Center for Science in the Public Interest
Center for Study of Responsive Law
Center for Women Policy Studies
Citizen Action Group
Citizen Advocacy Center
Citizen Utility6 Boards
Citizen Works
Clean Water Action Project
Congress Project
Congress Watch
Connecticut Citizen Action Group
Corporate Accountability Research Group
Critical Mass Energy Project
Democracy Rising
Disability Rights Center
Equal Justice Foundation
Essential Information
Fight to Advance the Nation’s Sports (FANS)
Foundation for Taxpayers and Consumers Rights
Freedom of Information Clearinghouse
Georgia Legal Watch
Global Trade Watch
Health Research Group
Litigation Group
Multinational Monitor
National Citizen’s Coalition for Nursing Home Reform
National Coalition for Universities in the Public INterest
National Insurance Consumer Organization
Ohio Public Interest Action Group
Organization for Competitive Markets
Pension Rights Center
Princeton Project 55
PROD - Truck Safety
Public Citizen
Retired Professionals Action Group
Shafeek Nader Trust for the Community Interest
Student Pbulic Interest Research Groups Nationwide
Tax Reform Research Group
Telecommunications Research and Action Center
The Visitor’s Center
Trial Lawyers for Public Justice

That’s some gnat.

Regards,

“My comment for Nadar is what are you doing to fix these issues that you are so deeply concerned about?”
Read above. The real question is what is Obama doing? What has Obama done?

“Still, Ralph Nader is clearly stupid and has to have been bribed to run for prez.”
You sir are clearly stupid. Bribed to run for president? Bribed by who or what exactly? The corporations that he has fought, and succeeded in, keeping in check?

“YES OBAMA IS THE MOST FAMOUS PERSON IN THE WORLD. MORE THAN HANNAH MONTANA AND RHIANNA”
I stopped reading right there.

—What has Obama done?

Senator Obama’s fight for universal children’s health care in Illinois.
His success bringing Republicans and Democrats together (a huge selling point for me in general) on bills such as the one in Illinois requiring police interrogations and confessions to be videotaped.
His leadership on ethics reform in Washington (the bill that lobbyists and special interests are complaining about right now has his name on it).
His bill to make the federal budget far more transparent and accessible to Americans via the Internet – we could use that openness in Texas.
And his vital work with Republicans to lock down nuclear weapons around the world.

So, we have two Mickey Mouse items from his time in the state Senate of Illinois, an ethics bill that was weaker than what Republicans like Jim DeMint wanted, and a couple of bills that Obama tagged along with Republicans on, that would have been passed with or without his support.

That’s it? You mean, you take that unimpressive set of “accomplishments” and combine it with repeating “change,” “hope,” “unity,” and “yes, we can” 4 million times, and that’s good enough to make you President of the United States?

ralph can suk it………..big time

@ Nader

SA man who makes 3 million will donate most of his money to live off 25 000$…does that even sound normal to you? Did you really believe this crock of sh*t statement when you typed it! Give me a break! Seriously, please re-read that sentence!

IThe mere fact that nader isn’t married and doesn’t have some sort of immediate family makes me nervous. How does he connect to the millions of families living in the United States if he happends to not have any. He can understand our issues

Obama is a well rounded candidate…he has a family, he has both of the populous races in America in his blood. He happends to be the ideal candidate but because of his blackness, he is being doubted!

And just the mere fact that Nader is associated with all these organizations just gives an extreme advantage and easy lee-way to those advocacy groups who normally roam around washington.

No thank you!

sowhat_123456

Does that sound normal? Absolutely not. Which is exactly why he has my vote. The fact that it is abnormal and true. Mile Allen did a story on him when he ran in 2000 and it’s all fact.

He estimated that he has made $13 million to $14 million in royalties, honoraria, interest income, and writing and television fees beginning in 1967. That was two years after he burst to prominence with his hardback sensation “Unsafe at Any Speed,” which focused on the Chevrolet Corvair to argue that the American auto industry emphasized style and profits at the expense of safety.

With his idealistic young “Nader’s Raiders” taking on the federal government from campuses around the country, he became such a celebrity that in 1975, Ladies Home Journal commissioned Nader and actor Robert Redford (”Two Fascinating Men”) to interview each other. A Newsweek cover showed a sword and suit of armor superimposed over “Consumer Crusader Ralph Nader.” Nader built such an indelible image as the little guy’s champion that a coal miner willed his tiny estate to him.

Nader, 66, who is single, said he has made $200,000 to $300,000 a year just on speeches for 30 years. Income from writings, television appearances and interest is on top of that. But he said he does not take a salary from any of his groups and lives on just $25,000 a year.

He last owned a car (a ‘49 Studebaker) in the late ’50s. He went years without a television set but now has a tiny black-and-white; reception is an adventure. He rents an apartment near Dupont Circle and often stays at the family home in Winsted, Conn. He writes his books on what he calls a “perilous” Underwood typewriter. He keeps meaning to buy a new ribbon.

Nader has plowed millions into his own projects, including the establishment of Public Interest Research Groups in 22 states. He has started several research centers devoted to health and safety, has taken on the standardized-test industry and has championed Native American rights, child protection and solar energy education.

More recently, he has put about $200,000 into organizing civic-action projects at Princeton University, from which he graduated in 1955, and Harvard Law School, from which he graduated in 1958.

Read tha article… http://www.commondreams.o...g/headlines/061800-01.htm

He does have a family that he is very close with, he just doesn’t have a wife and children of his own. He is a very intelligent and compassionate man.

“How does he connect to the millions of families living in the United States if he happends to not have any. He can understand our issues”

He does have a family just not a wife/kids. He is FAR more involved with the everyday lives of us, the American people, than any of the other candidates are. Look at what he has done for us in comparison to Obama and McCain.

And advantage from something he has invested his time and money on? Nooo way. Really? That’s unfair? Tell Obama to spend time on founding an organization instead of traveling the world preaching abot what he plans on doing. DO SOMETHING.

okay that commerical was funny….I thought that it was commericial for getting tested for HIV (cause the guy said “I got it from her”)….lol people were rocking back and forth on the chair to comfort themselves…anywayz the guy at the end of the video was the guy that played Shawn from “Boy Meets World” (just saying)…………….oh nader is an idiot, funny how whites forget that obama is half white….so somehow that makes his white guilt theory incorrect…I highly doubt that whites are voting for obama because he is black, if anything it would the other way around so nadar can go to hell (not saying that the majority of whites are against him because of his skin color)….many are for him because he is democrat, not republician, no mccain, gives hope, not republician (it is important to say this), hate the way that the country is heading, don’t wnat a reversal on roe vs. wade, want some1 in charge that does not vote against equal pay for women, want a person that can speak, want some1 who may not die soon (not trying to be funny)

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I’m voting for Obama bc he’s black. Period.

U got a problem? Oh the f*ck well. Deal with it.

OBAMA FOR PRESIDENT 2008!!!!!

haha@obamafan: wtf r u talking abt??

The Nader sh*t is irrelevant. NO ONE is going to vote for Nader. NO ONE cares about Nader. NO ONE has heard ANY of his plans for anything. And NO ONE knows who he is. So stop trying to come on a black blog trying to convince ppl otherwise.

OBAMA 08!! Whether you like it or not!! lol