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March 19, 2008

Clobama Vs. Nader

Aggregated from: Aron's Israel Peace Weblog

The NY Times had a piece today, about Nader's entrance into the race and the reaction of the other presidential candidates. I found the comments section more interesting than the article itself. While I rarely comment on US politics (there are tons of blogs on that topic) this piece riled me up. A c...

March 15, 2008

Results of First KABOBpoll in: Obama Wins

Aggregated from: KABOBfest

Barack Ibn Hussein Osama 60 (45%) Billary/Psycho Clinton 10 (7%) Crazy Old Man McCain 10 (7%) Ron "Sean" Paul 9 (6%) Chuck Norris 11 (8%) Ralph "the Spoiler' Nade...

March 6, 2008

Us and the American elections

Aggregated from: Egyptian chronicles

Every 4 four years the Arab world just like the rest of the world begins to follow the American elections , of course we used to follow it only in its final stage not from the primaries like now as the rest of the world. We used to follow the American elections then due to the American role in th...

February 27, 2008

Iraq: They are All the Same But ..

"Be it Obama, McCain, or Clinton, they are ALL the same for me. Be it a black man, a white woman, or a yellow transvestite, I don’t care. I honestly don’t cuz at the end of the day, none of them can fix what's broken," says Iraqi blogger Neurotic Iraqi Wife. Fellow blogger Raed Jarrar sees a silver lining and says a third party might generate some hope for a political revolution in the US. Read the rest of this post to see what Iraqis and Arabs are saying about the elections.

Twelve Issues that distinguish Ralph Nader from Hillary and Obama

Aggregated from: J O T M A N . C O M

Ralph Nader has just announced his candidacy for the US presidency (see here). Nader says that the following twelve issues are "off the table" for Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, but top his own agenda: Adopt single payer national health insurance Cut the huge, bloated, wasteful military... C...

Why Hillary Clinton's campaign smells like rotten Apple

Aggregated from: J O T M A N . C O M

Announcing his candidacy, Ralph Nader said his campaign would be frugal; that there will be "None of this huge waste on political consultants who have really messed up Hillary Clinton's campaign." Flashback to the recent debate with Obama: Hillary Clinton repeated her charge that Obama had... Cli...

February 26, 2008

Ralph Nader enters 2008 US President race

Aggregated from: Darryl Wolk Blog

Ralph Nader enters 2008 US President raceRalph Nader announces his presidential run for the 2008 presidential race on Meet The Press. Will Bloomberg enter next??? Ron Paul????-Darryl ...

Could Ralph Nader be the Democrats’ spoiler – again?

Aggregated from: US Elections - Times Online - WBLG

Loathed by some Democrats for siphoning off liberal votes in the 2000 Gore-Bush contest, Ralph Nader has announced he is once again to run as a third party candidate for president. The left-wing consumer advocate, who ran as the Green......

Ralph Nader has entered the US race

Aggregated from: J O T M A N . C O M

In an interview with Tim Russert on MSNBC (transcript here), legendary consumer advocate Ralph Nader -- who had been fervently opposed Clinton, hopeful about Obama, and warm to John Edward's aborted candidacy -- announced he will enter the ring, running for president as an Independent: . . . you... ...

February 25, 2008

an indefatigable politician - and linguist

Aggregated from: bint battuta in bahrain

So Nader's running again. He just doesn't given up - you've got to admire him for that. Away from politics, I started wondering whether he is the most linguistically accomplished candidate for US president there has ever been. He speaks English and Arabic, of course, but also Chinese, Portuguese,...