I'd worked that out. It's your luck that you did not have to vote in the one where the candidates were Bush II and Kerry - enough to put anyone off elections for life!
If I were American, I would vote for McCain, but the thing is that both candidates are interesting and intelligent people and that - unlike some choices I could mention - it is easy to see why voters would choose one or the other.
it is easy to see why voters would choose one or the other.
Well, it's not like we have much of a choice, this election; we either vote for the worst candidate or the next-to-worst, or someone who has no chance of winning whatsoever. Had I my druthers, I'd have somebody like Bob Jindal for President--but I rarely get my druthers.
Jindal? No thank you. He may make a perfectly good state governor, but I have already said in the matter of Mike Huckabee what I think of Creationists as heads of state (http://fpb.livejournal.com/269309.html).
This point was made pretty solidly in The One Minute Manager, and The One Minute Manager Meets the Monkey: to get ahead you need to work hard, so people at the top tend to be hard workers. However, it's not how many decisions a leader makes that matters, but the quality of them. A single decision can make or break any organisation, including a country. A leader needs to be willing to spend days, weeks or even months carefully considering important problems, not making work for themselves. And if they can't find the time, they should be delegating more - if only to train up the next generation of decision makers.
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ETA: may I also add I get to vote in this election?
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Yup!
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Well, it's not like we have much of a choice, this election; we either vote for the worst candidate or the next-to-worst, or someone who has no chance of winning whatsoever. Had I my druthers, I'd have somebody like Bob Jindal for President--but I rarely get my druthers.
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