I am still undecided.

Is it better to vote for a wimp or for a moron?

We've seen  “perhaps the greatest wealth transfer since the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia in 1917,” (says Michael Mandelbaum, author of “Democracy’s Good Name” )“It is not a wealth transfer from rich to poor that the Bush administration will be remembered for. It is a wealth transfer from the future to the present.”

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Надо выбрать Обаму президентом США, а Эхуда Барака - премьером Израиля. И создать комиссию из трех человек - Барак, Барак и Мубарак. Они договорятся!

To have Barack Obama elected as the US president and Ehud Barak as Israeli Prime Minister. And then to create a Peace Commission of three people: Barack, Barak and Mubarak. Together they can do it!

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HERE    -  but what would be the results if Third World countries were also included?

What about these two sweet shy schoolgirls from Dominica? They seemed happy enough.


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Barack Hussein Osama Obama just  declared his candidacy for the US President. I wonder who is he going to pick up as his running mate -is it going to be Hillary ?(what a dream ticket: Barack and Barracuda...).

I wonder whether American people are ready to elect someone with a name like his...if they are, I have my own nominee -
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Will he become the PM in the next political cycle? Or is he too un- Canadian (too intellectual, ethnic Russian, lived most of his life in the UK or US)?

It is difficult for an intellectual  (even without Ignatieff's other handicaps) to become a leader of a major country - the only recent example that comes to mind is Henrique Cardoso of Brazil.

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The USA - the largest and most powerful democracy in the world. The only superpower. Etc. Nevertheless in the last 5 years since 9/11 we have been debating whether we should abolish habeas corpus for suspected terrorist detainees, admit evidence obtained under physical coercion, allow the warrantless wiretaps etc ( Read more... )

Here is a very interesting article by Fareed Zakaria, one of my favorite political political thinkers. He often looks at familiar problems from an unexpected angle ( Read more... )

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