Black Caucus demands Nader leave Presidential ballot

Nader & Cummings before yesterday's meeting

Independant Presidental candidate Ralph Nader stormed out of a contentious meeting on Capitol Hill yesterday, where members of the Congressional Black Caucus, led by CBC head Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD), demanded that Nader abandon his bid for the White House.

Nader stormed out of a Capitol Hill meeting in which members of the Congressional Black Caucus told him to abandon his bid for the White House. The chairman of the group, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings (D-Md.), refused to apologize for a meeting that Nader publicly described yesterday as abusive.

"Some of them used very abusive language," Nader told National Public Radio host Tavis Smiley during his morning program. "Congressman [Melvin] Watt of North Carolina used such abusive language until I could hardly believe what he was saying."

"We could understand his right to run, but we were just convinced after the meeting that this was just about Nader," Cummings said. "First of all, he can't win, but he can be an aider and abettor of four more years of President Bush's regressive leadership."

Or to translate Cummings' words from bureaucratic-speak into English, "We hate George Bush so bad, and our candidate sucks so much that you'll (Nader) cost us the election, so sit your butt down now!"

It's pretty pathetic when a grown man begs, ain't it?

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