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Only in the Reform party could Buchanan's be a big tent. His would-be candidacy has already won the support of New York far-leftie Lenora Fulani, who is militantly pro-choice and pro-gay rights but told CNN she thinks she can come to terms with Buchanan, the man who is currently embroiled in a war of words with fellow Reform flirter Donald Trump over whether the U.S. should have gotten involved in World War II (Pat seems more than a little against it). According to Fulani, Buchanan "can play a role as a unifier, bring everybody together...
...though Buchanan and Fulani's far-out philosophies are filling a particular vacuum ? Ventura has lit a clear way ahead. He has got Minnesota's Democrats and Republicans talking, and its legislature functioning. Despite the chuckles, Ventura has not disgraced himself, and he has lent his party what must be considered a legitimate ? and respectable ? intellectual identity. He is for a small government that loves tough, and that ordinary folk get to participate in ? namely, for campaign finance reform. He is for fiscal conservatism (a balanced budget and low taxes) and social libertarianism. He has based a so-far-successful...
...although he campaigned against Obasanjo on the grounds of the general's links with the military. The deeper issue may be tribal: Falae and Obasanjo are both members of the Christian Yoruba tribe from the southwest, but Obasanjo has the backing of much of the north, the Muslim Hausa-Fulani elite who run the military. The Yoruba and the southeastern Igbo people are bitterly resentful that successive military governments have plundered the wealth derived from the rich oil fields of the impoverished south...
Members of HASA read selections from the poetry of David Diop, Okot p'Bitek and Mafika Mbuli, as well as a traditional Fulani creation story...
Even rank-and-file Reformers are snubbing Perot. Some think his decision to accept nearly $30 million in taxpayers' money is a raid on the very Treasury he complains is already empty. Others worry that he is attracting types like left-fringe politico Lenora Fulani. Officials of New York's Independence Party are threatening to drop Perot from their ticket because of what they see as massive irregularities in the nomination process. Nearly a third of their 38,000 members didn't receive ballots as promised, while nonmembers got ballots simply by phoning Reform headquarters and asking for them...