But he pitched a more inclusive and less polarising political platform than both Mr Nkrumah and Mr Rawlings.
Mr Barghouti, for his part, has already shown that he intends to use the courtroom as a political platform.
In the 11 years since Netanyahu was forced from office, the Left's political platform has been discredited by events.
While Belaid was a well-known figure, his party is small and has no real political platform other than opposition to Ennahda, she said.
But the sorts of policies that matter most are so basic that they would never seem weighty or visionary enough to grace a political platform.
The Second Global Private Donor Forum took place at the margins of COP10 in Nagoya, gathering prominent figures from diverse sectors, including business, private foundations and the international political platform.
Shaheen says the Mecca talks will produce a long-term truce only if Hamas makes a clear ideological and financial break with its main sponsor, Iran, and embraces the two-state solution political platform of Fatah.
Likely, this particular platform plank is merely a political olive branch to the gold bugs.
"There are more rural states and senators than there are urban states and senators, " he says, believing RFD should be a go-to platform for red-state political campaigning in 2012.
If cord-cutters were a political party, the first plank of their platform would be the right to subscribe to HBO directly over the internet without signing up for cable or satellite TV service.
With a new US president with very little if any knowledge of world politics and a potentially unstable domestic platform after the recent, highly political judgement reached by the American Supreme Court, the time has never been better for Europe to take up its historic responsibility to put its own house in order.
Success in fostering economic links and lowering political and military tensions will be a main campaign platform.
Regardless of your political affiliation, the presidential debates gave us a great platform for observing what body language and speaking styles can do to create impressions.
And in a city which has been a far from faithful political mistress to any political party over the years, Naples could provide another platform for the movement which rejects all the other parties.
This platform will innovate how some voters engage in the political process, and it provides greater access to valuable information such as the perspectives of youth at our town halls, newscasts and voter registrations.
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Political commentator Nichole Bacharan says the election was the triumph of a platform proposing far-reaching reforms for Europe's third-largest economy over one stressing the need to preserve the country's welfare state.
Public attention will eventually shift from the mayhem of last week, but a new political sensitivity may endure--one that gives the protesters a platform for concerns heretofore ignored by the WTO bureaucrats and elected representatives alike.
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Raphael Chikukwa, curator of the pavilion, said it was "pivotal" in establishing a platform for artists after the isolation caused by the country's political situation.
The fact that the platform concept originated in the world of technology was not lost on all political observers.
But thanks to Mr Thaksin, in future no Thai political party can expect to win an election without a popular and well-promoted platform.
The idea of a platform that would place the issue of biodiversity at the top of the international political agenda was launched in 2005, at an international conference at UNESCO on biodiversity and governance.
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