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November 01, 2004
Clinton | Palestinians would vote for Clinton

I’ve keep watching the various international “constituencies” in Zero Electoral Vote Territories across the world saying who’d they’d vote for.

Here’s an interesting one:

JERUSALEM POST: Palestinians would vote for Clinton

If the American presidential election had been held in Ramallah on Sunday, the hands-down winner would have been former president Bill Clinton.

“Frankly,” said Azzam Mansour, who owns the al-Numan “American-style” grocery store in Ramallah’s twin city of El-Bireh, “I only wish I could vote for Clinton.”

John Kerry is most Palestinians’ inevitable second choice. The most succinct answer many Palestinians gave 48 hours before one of the tightest presidential races in memory was, “I would vote for Kerry. Why Bush?”

“We want to get rid of Bush,” said Mansour, who bounced around the southern US for 30 years. “Maybe Kerry will be better, but the bottom line is that Bush made people hate America.” On the other hand, he said, Clinton “was just, he was fair.”

Mansour said that he wished he could grab hold of Bush’s collar and shout “Whatcha doing?” All of Mansour’s five siblings live in the US, and they all intend to vote Kerry.



Posted by Laurence Simon at November 1, 2004 10:21 AM | TrackBack
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