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Were I to choose the next U.S. President/Ruler of the World and were presented with several candidate of roughly the same age, I would make the choice on the basis of what their names meant.

Why? Because, no matter where they went to school or how well they did or how good they look or anything else, they have been hearing that name repeatedly through their whole life. It has been repeated-and-repeated over-and-over, slightly shaping the way they react to things.

We'll start with a possible Independent Candidate, Ralph Nader - RALPH: short for RADULF, from Germanic elements meaning "council of wolf"; NADER: similar to the names Notaro (from the Latin for "scribe" of "clerk") and Nyitrai (meaning "someone from old Hungary")

Then a definite Independent Candidate, Joseph Charles Schriner - JOSEPH: From the Latin Iosephus, which was from the Greek (Iosephos), which was from the Hebrew name (Yosef) meaning "he will add", the name of Old Testament Jacob's eleventh son, the Virgin Mary's husband, Joseph of Arimathea and rulers of the Holy Roman Empire; CHARLES: From the Germanic name Karl, which was derived from a Germanic word which meant "man". However, an alternative theory states that the name is derived from the common Germanic element heri meaning "army, warrior": SCHRINER: similar to Schermer (professional swordsman, derived from "to defend"), Schirmer (meaning 'fencing master,' also derived from "to defend") and Schrijnemakers ('of the cabinet-making family')

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