Friday, October 31, 2008

Travellers’ Blog Entry No. 34

Three days before Election Day the favorites for this election are totally clear. Barack Obama or John McCain will be the next President.
But there are a number of other candidates, which are too weird not to mention them.
Before the coverage about Election Day gets serious on Monday... here are some bizarre candidates who still run for the White House:

1. The "Just Make Sense" party named Frank Moore as their candidate 2008. Moore, who is mute and unable to walk since his birth is 62 years old and a 'Performance Artist'. His political program contains a cutback of the military budget, the total abolishment of atomic power plants, a financial basic supply for American citizens paid by the government, of about $1,000 dollars per month. Additionally, he wants the public transports to be free for all. His tax plan: Everyone with an annual earning of under one million dollars will pay 10 percent taxes, everybody who earns more than that will pay 75 percent taxes.




2. Gene Amondson is the candidate of the "Prohibition Party". The priest wants to ban alcohol from the United States to lower the number of accidents and crimes.




3. The "United Fascist Union" has Jackson Grimes to run against the big parties. The fascist who signs his E-Mails in dependence on Hitler, with "Heil Grimes", wants to establish a "world state" and he wants to abolish money. He also wants to abolish Christianity - another senseless plan.




4. The Socialist Party has (besides Barack Obama like McCain argued) the candidate Brian Moore. The pacifist and opponent of the war in Iraq wants to establish a socialist healthcare system and living space for every citizen.




5. Ron Paul officially gave up his election campaign but, in some states, Ron Paul is still electable. A grass-root participation uses the internet communities YouTube and Facebook to support the libertarian candidate. Paul's claim: The state should keep out of the citizen's lives. Additionally, he wants unlimited possession of weapons and drugs. He also wants the USA to terminate of international organisations like the World Trade Organization.




You see, there are many more candidates besides the usual known politicans like Obama, McCain, Barr or Nader.
Of course, they do not have a chance to become President, but they might take away important votes from the "big" candidates.

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