re: #624 Kragar

I found what I was thinking of:

Nader came under fire during and after the campaign for some comments made regarding the candidacy of Barack Obama. In June 2008, Nader commented in an interview with the Rocky Mountain News that Obama was trying to “talk white” and trying to “appeal to white guilt not by coming on as black is beautiful, black is powerful.” Obama campaign spokeswoman Shannon Gilson responded, “We are obviously disappointed with these very backward-looking remarks.”

On election night, Nader said about Barack Obama:

To put it very simply, he is our first African-American president, or he will be. And we wish him well. But his choice, basically, is whether he is going to be Uncle Sam for this country or Uncle Tom for the giant corporations.
Later that night, Fox News correspondent Shepard Smith asked Nader, “I just wonder if in hindsight you wished you’d used a phrase other than ‘Uncle Tom.’” Nader responded, “Not at all.”