VICE PRESIDENT NOMINEES May 11, 2008
Posted by wmmbb in US Politics.4 comments
R Cheney has changed the meaning of what it is to be Vice President. Obama is virtually now the Democratic Presidential nominee, so it will be interesting to see who is selected in the VP role. The same interest will be in McCain’s selection.The role of the VP is to complement, not overshadow, the presidential candidate, yet be somebody who might credibly assume the office of President. This year the interest will be age, gender and “race”, as well as the more conventional need to balance the ticket by recognizing people from different regions, with an eye to the electoral votes they may be able to swing.
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SWINGS AND ROUNDABOUTS May 11, 2008
Posted by wmmbb in LATIN AMERICA.add a comment
Let us just say, that while the US nobly led by the Bush Administration “adults” has been winning the war in the Middle East, and overseeing the destruction of Iraq and Lebanon, others have emerged as players in the international energy market. Of course, if the investment in war had, for example, gone to developing alternative technologies that might easily have given rise to a new set of power holders in Washington, and we cannot have that, can we? As it is the backyard, and the Madison doctrine seem to untended, which is probably not the way to honour the Reagan legacy. Two nation states come to mind, if for the moment we leave out the former “model” democracies of Peru, Bolivia, Chile and Argentina, and they are: Brazil and Venezuela.
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