Posted by
Amira Al Hussaini
· 7:31 pm
· Iraq · Qatar
"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.
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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...
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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...
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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 ...
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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......
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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:
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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,...
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There are those presidential candidates, such as Obama and Clinton, who promise to abandon the Iraqi people to the murderers of al-Qaeda and the Shiite militias. And there is McCain, who supports the Iraqi people. And then there is the presidential candidate who will "reverse U.S. Middle East policy...
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