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September 22, 2008

Bob Barr Seeks to Remove Obama & McCain from Ballot in Texas

Aggregated from: PoliGazette

Arguing that neither Obama or McCain met the nominating deadline for the Texas ballot, the campaign of Libertarian Party nominee Bob Barr is trying to get them removed from the ballot. ©2008 PoliGazette. All Rights Reserved.. ...

September 17, 2008

Enfant Terrible Nader Criticizes Big Three and Congress

Aggregated from: PoliGazette

Independent candidate for president Ralph Nader released a statement on Wednesday in which he criticizes the three biggest auto companies in the United States, and the government which bails The Big Three out whenever they are in trouble. The statement came after Ford and General Motors announced su...

September 15, 2008

Adolph Reed: “Sitting This One Out”

Aggregated from: KABOBfest

I've been meaning to post about Adolph Reed for several months now. I was reminded by (yet another) e-mail I recently received from a friend pleading with me that I vote for Barack Obama instead of Ralph Nader this November*. The assumption that I'd even be voting for Obama if Nader weren't on the t...

September 4, 2008

Global: All Palin all the time

What has changed in the US election scene since 2000? John Liebhardt takes us on a personal journey - and points out how there is very little interest in the Republican convention today. When international bloggers talk about Republicans today - what is it that really stands out? Following are reactions from Jordan, Israel, Egypt and South Africa.

August 11, 2008

Choices, choices, choices…

Aggregated from: Babalu

With all the talk about McCain and Obama, we forget that there are other choices on the presidential ballot come November. You have Ralph Nader running as an Independent, Bob Barr representing the Libertarian Party, Cynthia McKinney as the Green Party candidate, and then you have Gloria La Riva. ...

August 8, 2008

Barack Obama’s Muslim problem: Outreach coordinator resigns after smear campaign

Aggregated from: yaman's amateur ramblings

Under intense and unreasonable scrutiny from the very beginning for a perceived “closeness” to Islam, the Barack Obama campaign has once again fallen prey to the work of right-wing anti-Muslim organizations in the United States. The campaign’s freshly-appointed Muslim-American outreach coordin...

July 8, 2008

Chuck Baldwin for U.S. President

Aggregated from: BiblioPolit

I make no apologies for believing that Chuck Baldwin--standing on the Constitution Party ticket--should be the next U.S. president. Mary Starrett, put together a few reasons why Chuck Baldwin would make a good president, here. ...

July 7, 2008

Obama is Making Me a Naderite

Aggregated from: KABOBfest

Yesterday QuiQui reported how mega-bloggers who backed Obama are responding to his electoral move to centrism. A piece in the USA Today on the same subject offers this insightful advice from Senator Bernie Sanders:"They should be organizing a grassroots movement," he said, "so it will be easier for...

July 6, 2008

Vote Obama, be proud of Nader and listen to Gibran

Aggregated from: Arabisto.com: Dr. Ghassan Michel Rubeiz

Many Arab Americans are rethinking their enthusiasm for Barack Obama. Not only do they watch him pander to the strong Israeli lobby, but they observe his campaign handlers distancing themselves from Muslims. Hoping to teach Obama a lesson, some Middle East Americans plan to vote for Ralph Nader, to ...

June 9, 2008

Global: The World Has a Say!

A number of websites to poll readers from around the world on their choice of who the next president of the US should be have popped up recently. And while non-Americans do not have a vote in the elections, they are still having their say online.