L’avocat contestataire, et m\u00eame dissident, Ralph Nader, se pr\u00e9sente comme candidat ind\u00e9pendant aux pr\u00e9sidentielles US. Personnage plut\u00f4t class\u00e9 \u00e0 gauche, mais en g\u00e9n\u00e9ral \u00e9chappant aux classements habituels de l’\u00e9tiquette politique, Nader a des jugements int\u00e9ressants sur le monde politique US.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\tIl a \u00e9t\u00e9 interrog\u00e9 par le Rocky Mountain News<\/em>, le 25 juin<\/a>, essentiellement sur le candidat d\u00e9mocrate Obama. Le jugement de Nader sur Obama est abrupt et rejoint un avis assez g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de la gauche extra-parlementaire, ou dissidente, aux USA, dans tous les cas dans les circonstances actuelles de la campagne \u00e9lectorale. Tel qu’il appara\u00eet dans sa campagne, Obama est, comme un autre candidat de l’establishment<\/em>, et sans doute plus qu’un autre candidat, conforme \u00e0 ce que l’establishment<\/em> exige de lui. Lorsqu’il devient plus pr\u00e9cis, Nader a un jugement tr\u00e8s int\u00e9ressant.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \tApr\u00e8s avoir observ\u00e9 qu’Obama est, vis-\u00e0-vis des lobbies<\/em> et de la corruption l\u00e9gale de l’homme politique aux USA, identique aux autres politiciens, voire pire que son adversaire McCain, notamment dans les soutiens qu’il accepte de l’industrie, Nader poursuit par ces remarques plut\u00f4t d’ordre psychologique:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \tQuestion:<\/em><\/strong> \u00abDo you see Barack Obama as qualitatively different than Al Gore or any other Democrats. He talks about taking on lobbyists, not taking money directly from lobbyists …<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \tNader:<\/em><\/strong> […] \u00abThere’s only one thing different about Barack Obama when it comes to being a Democratic presidential candidate. He’s half African-American. Whether that will make any difference, I don’t know. I haven’t heard him have a strong crackdown on economic exploitation in the ghettos. Payday loans, predatory lending, asbestos, lead. What’s keeping him from doing that? Is it because he wants to talk white? He doesn’t want to appear like Jesse Jackson? We’ll see all that play out in the next few months and if he gets elected afterwards.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbI think his main problem is that he censors himself. He knows exactly who has power, who has too much, who has too little, what needs to be done right down to the community level. But he has bought the advice that if you want to win the election, you better take it easy on the corporate abuses and do X, Y, Z. When I hear that I say, Oh, I see. So he’s doing all this to win the election, and then he’ll be different.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbWell let’s see if it worked. Did it work for Mondale? Did it work for Dukakis? Did it work for Clinton? Yes, but only because of Perot? Did it work for Gore? Did it work for Kerry … ?<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \tQuestion:<\/em><\/strong> \u00abDo you think he’s trying to, what was your term, talk white?<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \tNader:<\/em><\/strong> \u00abOf course. I mean, first of all, the number one thing that a black American politician aspiring to the presidency should be is to candidly describe the plight of the poor, especially in the inner cities and the rural areas, and have a very detailed platform about how the poor is going to be defended by the law, is going to be protected by the law, and is going to be liberated by the law. Haven’t heard a thing.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbI mean, the amount of economic exploitation in the ghettos is shocking. You’d think he’d propose a task force to at least study it. I mean, these people are eroded every day. The kids, bodies are asbestos and lead, municipal services discriminate against them because it’s the poor area, including fire and police protection and building code enforcement. And then the lenders, the loan sharks get at them, and the dirty food ends up in the ghettos, like the contaminated meat. It’s a dumping ground for shoddy merchandise. You don’t see many credit unions there. You don’t see many libraries there. You don’t see many health clinics there. This is, we’re talking 40-50 million Americans who are predominantly African-Americans and Latinos. Anybody see that kind of campaigning? Have you seen him campaign in real poor areas of the city very frequently? No, he doesn’t campaign there.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \tQuestion:<\/em><\/strong> \u00abWhat do you think the purpose of that is?<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \tNader:<\/em><\/strong> \u00abHe wants to show that he is not a threatening, a political threatening, another politically-threatening African-American politician.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbHe wants to appeal to white guilt. You appeal to white guilt not by coming on as a black is beautiful, black is powerful. Basically he’s coming on as someone who is not going to threaten the white power structure, whether it’s corporate or whether it’s simply oligarchic. And they love it. Whites just eat it up.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \tL’analyse de Nader, son portrait psychologique d’Obama, sont tr\u00e8s int\u00e9ressants. L’hypoth\u00e8se d’un Obama s’auto-censurant est tout \u00e0 fait acceptable, surtout apr\u00e8s sa fausse-vraie gaffe<\/a> d’avril dernier, o\u00f9 l’on a pu voir, et o\u00f9 lui-m\u00eame a pu s’apercevoir que l’on ne lui passerait rien. Obama s’auto-censurerait \u00e0 un double titre, en tant que Noir, ou demi-Africain Am\u00e9ricain, et en tant qu’il serait suppos\u00e9 avoir une opinion nettement r\u00e9formiste, voire radicale.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \tCela nous conduit effectivement \u00e0 la question que soul\u00e8ve Nader, la question-clef: si Obama fait cela pour se faire \u00e9lire et s’il est \u00e9lu, que fera-t-il lorsqu’il sera devenu pr\u00e9sident? \u00abWhen I hear that I say, Oh, I see. So he’s doing all this to win the election, and then he’ll be different.<\/em>\u00bb De ce point de vue, on en revient \u00e0 l’habituel constat d’un Obama consid\u00e9r\u00e9 comme une \u00e9nigme<\/a>. (Car, un peu au contraire de ce que semble penser Nader, qui cite d’autres exemples de politiciens d\u00e9mocrates ayant employ\u00e9 cette tactique et ayant \u00e9chou\u00e9, il semblerait que la chose pourrait fonctionner dans le cas d’Obama donc, qu’il pourrait \u00eatre \u00e9lu. La raison principale se trouve dans la situation exceptionnelle qui marque cette \u00e9lection, avec le discr\u00e9dit des r\u00e9publicains, la faiblesse des possibilit\u00e9s d’action de McCain, etc.)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \tLe portrait que Nader trace d’Obama ne d\u00e9ment pas notre appr\u00e9ciation g\u00e9n\u00e9rale. L’\u00e9lection d’Obama, bien plus qu’introduire une r\u00e9volution faite pour plaire aux salons bien-pensants (un pr\u00e9sident noir), repr\u00e9senterait une formidable interrogation: un pr\u00e9sident potentiellement r\u00e9formiste et radical face au syst\u00e8me qui le consid\u00e9rera avec la plus grande suspicion, peut-\u00eatre avec raison.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \tMis en ligne le 26 juin 2008 \u00e0 12H30<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" L’avocat contestataire, et m\u00eame dissident, Ralph Nader, se pr\u00e9sente comme candidat ind\u00e9pendant aux pr\u00e9sidentielles US. Personnage plut\u00f4t class\u00e9 \u00e0 gauche, mais en g\u00e9n\u00e9ral \u00e9chappant aux classements habituels de l’\u00e9tiquette politique, Nader a des jugements int\u00e9ressants sur le monde politique US. 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