Gaddafi Refuses to Endorse Obama

Muamar Gaddafi has style. It's not just the trademark African robes, or the fact that the Libyan leader sleeps in his own bedouin tent wherever he goes, or that he has a team of Amazonian bodyguards. The world's longest-serving head of government also knows how to grab headlines.

At the otherwise insufferable Arab summit this spring, Gaddafi was the only Arab leader who actually said what all the rest were thinking: "We hate each other," he blurted out from the podium. He then proposed a solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: a single unified country to be called: "Israeltine."

This week at a gathering of Arab leaders from Mediterranean countries, Gaddafi turned his attention towards the American presidential race. While the rest of Africa is going gaga at the thought that an African-American might live in the White House, Gadhafi said that a black president will have an inferiority complex. "This will make him behave worse than the whites," he said.

Case in point? Obama's alleged proposal to give $300 billion in aid to Israel in hopes that the Jewish state doesn't assassinate him like it killed Kennedy. According to Gaddafi, Israeli agents murdered JFK because he tried to investigate their secret nuclear weapons program. Turns out Hillary wasn't so wrong to stay in the race just in case Obama got knocked off.

No word yet on whether Gaddafi will back McCain.

--Andrew Lee Butters/Beirut