The American presidential election (21)
As if the American presidential election was not already exciting enough – with the Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton battling it out for the Democratic nomination and John McCain still being harried by Mick Huckabee – today 73 year old Ralph Nader announced his candidacy for the fifth time [more information here].
Nader is renown as a consumer activist and consumer empowerment is something in which I believe passionately. But Nader may have caused Al Gore to lose to George Bush in 2000 and I would hate to think that there was a risk of Nader’s intervention this year denying the presidency to Obama and handing it to McCain.