好热闹的消息！两次以无党派人士身份参加美国总统大选的“前度刘郎”今早再次宣布以无党派人士参选。

这位仁兄零零年参选，搅局的结果是佛州重新计票。结果让高尔饮恨乌江。如果没有他参与分流了一部分民主党选票的话，高尔以在任副总统的身份参选是相当有利的。自然高尔的失败和克林顿夫妇助选不力也很有关系。克林顿的口交和弹劾丑闻克林顿把第一夫人放在副总统的地位之上等等都让高尔失分——如果高尔连任八年哪来的希拉里（她绝对不可能是高尔的搭档）今年参选？！但从第三者“插足”的现实结果来看没有这位第三者，高尔和小布什究竟谁入主白宫真不好说。

所以说，这也算是一种蝴蝶效应吧。这位“前度刘郎”的一念之差，造成了布什子报父仇。否则哪来的伊战哪来的萨达姆魂归真主，否则也就没有今年美国大选的这幕好戏。

现在好啦，有了这一位跳出来，这出连台本戏势必“烟雨莽苍苍”“今朝更好看”，“秦皇岛外打鱼船，知向谁边”？

Nader Announces New Bid for White House



By HOPE YEN


(AP) Ralph Nader, seen during a news conference in this July 14, 2007, in Reading, Pa., announced that...
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WASHINGTON (AP) - Ralph Nader said Sunday he will run for president as a third-party candidate, criticizing the top White House contenders as too close to big business and pledging to repeat a bid that will "shift the power from the few to the many."
Nader, 73, said most people are disenchanted with the Democratic and Republican parties due to a prolonged Iraq war and a shaky economy. The consumer advocate also blamed tax and other corporate-friendly policies under the Bush administration that he said have left many lower- and middle-class people in debt.
"You take that framework of people feeling locked out, shut out, marginalized and disrespected," he said. "You go from Iraq, to Palestine to Israel, from Enron to Wall Street, from Katrina to the bumbling of the Bush administration, to the complicity of the Democrats in not stopping him on the war, stopping him on the tax cuts."
"In that context, I have decided to run for president," Nader told NBC's "Meet the Press."


Nader also criticized Republican candidate John McCain and Democrats Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton for failing to support full Medicare for all or cracking down on Pentagon waste and a "bloated military budget. He blamed that on corporate lobbyists and special interests, which he said dominate Washington, D.C., and pledged in his third-party campaign to accept donations only from individuals.
"The issue is do they have the moral courage, do they have the fortitude to stand up to corporate powers and get things done for the American people," Nader said. "We have to shift the power from the few to the many."
Nader also ran as a third-party candidate in 2000 and 2004, and many Democrats still accuse him of costing Al Gore the 2000 election.
Obama, responding Saturday to Nader's earlier criticisms that he lacked "substance," praised Nader as a "heroic figure."
"In many ways he is a heroic figure and I don't mean to diminish him. But I do think there is a sense now that if somebody is not hewing to the Ralph Nader agenda, then you must be lacking in some way," Obama said.


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Clinton called Nader's announcement a "passing fancy" and said she hoped his candidacy wouldn't hurt the Democratic nominee.
"Obviously, it's not helpful to whomever our Democratic nominee is. But it's a free country," she told reporters as she flew to Rhode Island for campaign events.
Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee, speaking shortly before Nader's announcement, said Nader's past runs have shown that he usually pulls votes from the Democrat. "So naturally, Republicans would welcome his entry into the race," the former Arkansas governor said on CNN.
Nader vociferously disputes the spoiler claim, saying only Democrats are to blame for losing the race to George W. Bush. He said Sunday there could be no chance of him tipping the election to Republicans because the electorate will not vote for a "pro-war John McCain."
"If the Democrats can't landslide the Republicans this year, they ought to just wrap up, close down, emerge in a different form," Nader said.
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