While Ralph Nader is not currently running at the time of this writing, there is an active and vocal draft movement to convince him to run for the Green party in the Presidential election for 2008.
The site “draftnader.
org” sports a petition signed with over 1000 signatures, so he’s worth including “just in case”.
He’s [...]
Mike Huckabee was born August 24, 1955 in the city of Hope, Arkansas.
He began working in his early childhood, by reading the news and weather at a local radio station when he was 14.
He attended Hope High School and went on to Ouachita Baptist University, where he completed a bachelor’s degree, where he [...]
Tom Tancredo was born December 20, 1945 in Denver, Colorado.
He is a graduate of the University of Northern Colorado as of 1969, with a degree in political science, and became a history professor at Drake Junior High School in Denver, in 1976.
Beginning a career in politics at an early age, he was already [...]
Hillary Clinton was born as Hillary Rodham in October 26, 1947 in Chicago, Illinois.
She graduated Maine South High School in 1965 and went on to attend Wellesley College, where she majored in Political Science, and graduated in 1969.
Her next educational step was to attend Yale Law School, where she received a Juris Doctor [...]
Mike who? Most Americans hear “Huckabee” and think (a) it’s a spin-off restaurant from the Applebee’s chain, or (b) that Fox Searchlight movie from 2004 with Dustin Hoffman and Lily Tomlin.
But, no Mike Huckabee is a real candidate with real ambitions, and he has lately surged ahead in the polls, trouncing John McCain and [...]
Rudy Giuliani was born May 28, 1944, in the borough of Brooklyn, New York City.
He is the second-generation descendant of Italian immigrants on both his parents’ side.
He attended Bishop Loughlin Memorial High School, graduating from there in 1961.
He then went to Manhattan College in the Bronx, where he majored in political science [...]
Barack Obama was born August 4, 1961, in Honolulu, Hawaii.
His childhood is marked with extreme conflict and struggle.
The son of a Caucasian mother from Wichita, Kansas and a Kenyan father from Nyanza Province, Kenya, his parents divorced when he was just two years old.
His father was later to die in an automobile [...]
Duncan Hunter was born May 31, 1948 in Riverside, California.
He graduated from Rubidoux High School in 1966.
He first attended the University of Montana for a year, then transferred to the University of California at Santa Barbara, before enlisting in the United States Army in 1969.
This would lead him to serve in the [...]
Dennis Kucinich was born October 8, 1946, in Cleveland, Ohio.
He attended Cleveland State University up until 1970, when he switched to Case Western Reserve University.
He graduated in 1973 with both a BA and an MA in speech and communication.
While still in University, his political ambitions asserted themselves at an incredibly early [...]
When we turn our eyes to Hillary Clinton, we see the exciting prospect of our first woman President.
We see someone who has the upper hand, with a husband who served two terms in that office and knows how to win it.
We see an established states-person, who has already been an activist for various [...]
