Ralph Nader Joins 2008 Presidential Race

The latest issue of Newsweek has a story titled "Good for the Jews?" that raises questions about Obama's support of Israel. Danny Ayalon, Israel's former Ambassador to US, says Iran would exploit Obama's gullibility and race ahead with its nuclear program. Hilary is using this argument against Obama to peel away Obama's Jewish supporters.
Riaz Haq, PakAlumni Worldwide

Definitely, Ralf Nadar is an isreali stooge, he has done that several times to produce victory for the republicans.

This time of course, repoblicans are not going to win, he is simply anti obama.

Re: # 2
Israel has nothing to fear regardless of who gets elected as US president. There will be no fundamental shift in total support for Israel, given the composition of the two main parties and the US Congress and the US political system. The hope is that the next president will be more proactive and more competent than Bush in bringing Palestinians and Israelis together to work out a deal that's in the best of the Israelis and the Palestinians.
Riaz Haq, PakAlumni Worldwide

Nader will only be useful to the Republicans if the

vote is close in November.

Otherwise his announcement has little value.

Ras

Ras,

I wouldn’t be surprised if the election turns out to be another close one. McCain seems to be a strong candidate with good credentials and credibility, but he may not be able to win full support of the religious conservatives.

On the Democrat side, while Hillary is a polarizing contestant, Obama seems to have considerable appeal for the independent voters and the ambivalent voters. He would give Democrats a better chance to win … but Nader may siphon off just enough votes to give McCain an edge.

… but all bets are off, if in the final days leading up to the election, another grainy Bin Laden video shows up …

Re: # 5

Gaging from the voter turn-out in the primaries, all indications are that the Democrats are far more energized than Republicans this year. Unless there's a real blunder by the Dems or a provocation by UBL, I think Democrats are headed for a land-slide in 2008.
Riaz Haq, PakAlumni Worldwide

It was interesting to see in the Ohio debate tonight how both Clinton and Obama were competing aggressively with each other to pander to the Israeli lobby in the US. I guess they were both trying hard to live up to the pandering charge by Nader.
Riaz Haq, PakAlumni Worldwide

Re: # 3

The fact is that israel does not want any compromise. republicans are the ones that has left israel alone while the democrats tried compromise. Israel is a military dominated country like pakistan, and peace is not good for them. Most of the israeli politicians are ex-military.