Posts About Elections
Dear Candidate: Keep God Out of Your Wars
Wanting to root out the world's 'evil villains' is for Hollywood, not for a world leader. Such desire is probably the only real enemy the next U.S. president will have.
Dear Candidates: Lead, Don't Loot
America is at its best when it sends its corporate power and freedom culture out into the world. Force is the choice of the desperate.
Elect A Truly Global President
Are we about to witness an election for a global President - in action, not just in name?
Dear Candidates: Equality For Us, Too
Dear Candidates: Give the world the same equality that America gives its citizens.
Conservative Leadership Unhappy With Ahmadinjead
For over a year, I've been saying that Khamanei is not very happy with Ahmadinejad's style and performance. Now this great story by the mostly amazing Robert Tait from Tehran for The Guardian is probably the first substantial reporting on this topic. Few people have seen it, so please link to it and spread it around. Read it: President's future in doubt as MPs rebel and economic crisis grows (The Guardian) My favorite paragraphs:...
Dear Candidates: Lift the Cuban Embargo
Lifting the Cuban embargo would erase anti-Americanism and weaken Chavez.
Dear Candidates: You're Our Leader, Too
We citizens of the rest of the world fear American leaders held hostage by frozen ideology.
Dear Candidates: Visit Ellis Island
The nativist and xenophobic tone that has transformed the immigration issue into borderline racism forgets the way America was forged.
Dear Candidate: Latin America Isn’t One Country
Chavez is not the region’s leading actor; Cuba is no more than a tiny Caribbean island close to Miami. We are so much more than you think we are.
Dear Candidates: Your Country on the Brink
The new president will have to lead from the front now, like a great general, to persuade the rest of the world to follow. Preaching to the nations from splendid isolation will no longer do
Dear Candidates: Earn the World's Consent
The U.S. can’t accomplish anything alone – and some humility wouldn’t hurt.
