At the campaign stop in Austin, Texas, Nader spoke to an audience of approximately 200 about his campaign’s primary issues in the 2008 presidential election. During the press conference — held in a sweltering classroom at the back of a small, suburban Methodist church — Nader also directly addressed an elderly white woman as a “political bigot.” “What is your answer to people, including myself, who believe that the votes you get will take away from the Democratic party and ensure McCain wins?” asked the woman during Nader’s Q&A with the press. “People who say that a vote for you is a vote for McCain.”
Nader grew tense, and his response to the woman was abrupt. “Madam, do you think I’m a second-class citizen?” he asked. “I’d like for you to answer my question,” said the woman. “No, because that question implies that somehow I am less equal in running for election than two crooked politicians in Washington,” he said. “You are a political bigot, wittingly or unwittingly.” It was during his speech, and after the press conference, that Nader said progressives who will vote for Obama as the “least worst candidate” are actually trapped in “political slavery.” More
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