Non-American Politics
Here's a great reminder of why we're so lucky to live in America and so indebted to those who established over 200 years ago a government whose steady forthrightness and basic fairness, still to this day, is a little difficult to fathom and fully appreciate.
Here's a story where Castro tries to stick his thumb in Obama's eye over international relations and expectations that Cuba will reform.
In This story we see that Hugo Chavez is doing the same thing by trying to get the next Summit of the Americas meeting held in Cuba, a country that isn't even a member since they have no democratically elected government.
In that same story we learn that the president of Bolivia has been on a hunger strike over a law that would let him run for another term. A Hunger strike? (that lasted 5 days, btw) You're the freakin president.
And finally, from the King of the Kooks, we learn that North Korea, after threatening the South over the weekend by reminding them that Seoul is well within artillery range, now claims that South Korea has moved one of the border markers. This guy is a two year old. Seriously, a freaking two year old with an army; complaining that the other kid moved the line. Seriously? This is the country that spends so much money on a military that it can't feed it's people without food given to them for free by the "warmongers" (his pet-name for South Korea), but remains determined to avoid progress at any cost. And, apparently, avoid reality as well.
So, no matter who's President here, how great is it to be an American?
Here's a story where Castro tries to stick his thumb in Obama's eye over international relations and expectations that Cuba will reform.
In This story we see that Hugo Chavez is doing the same thing by trying to get the next Summit of the Americas meeting held in Cuba, a country that isn't even a member since they have no democratically elected government.
In that same story we learn that the president of Bolivia has been on a hunger strike over a law that would let him run for another term. A Hunger strike? (that lasted 5 days, btw) You're the freakin president.
And finally, from the King of the Kooks, we learn that North Korea, after threatening the South over the weekend by reminding them that Seoul is well within artillery range, now claims that South Korea has moved one of the border markers. This guy is a two year old. Seriously, a freaking two year old with an army; complaining that the other kid moved the line. Seriously? This is the country that spends so much money on a military that it can't feed it's people without food given to them for free by the "warmongers" (his pet-name for South Korea), but remains determined to avoid progress at any cost. And, apparently, avoid reality as well.
So, no matter who's President here, how great is it to be an American?