The Easy Choice

You may vote for a candidate because of his or her electability, because you like him or her, because you like her or his policies, because you want to. Anyways there are million different reason why. In this 2008 elections you have to wonder on the Democratic side, who is the best?

With policies pretty much alike you can pick either of them and expect the same outcome, although you want tough with negotiation power, with and iron fist if the country feels threaten and with the ability to push for diplomacy in international affairs (we don't want another Iraq). You want the perfect candidate that would be the perfect president. Maybe were are dreaming on a fairy tale.Its not enough that the political practice can, as in Hollywood, shape the public exposure of certain candidates to appear more likable, they also can change past events in order to best serve their interest. This bring us to the purpose of electing a good official. Whether Clinton can beat Obama is not the question, she sure will win in the Super Tuesday, her margins are much better than Obamba --who wasted too much time in the small states that voted earlier, were with his charisma he won them over but forgetting that the big ones are the ones that matter.

The Gulliani strategy was not that bad, sadly he is too fake and too 9/11 to project the whole attributes of a perfect candidate. It may be that after the war in Iraq, which distracted America from the rightfully war against the authors of 9/11, a lot of people saw that violence may not be the whole answer to international problems. I figure that if you are a terrorist and you try to commit an evil attack against innocent civilians you must be brain washed and incredible retarded, but also part of an international organization that is dedicated to hire people just like that.

Even when the economy is what drive people's sentiment right now, there are other major problems that need to be acknowledge. Terrorist plots must be prevented at any cost, there is no other way to do that than the hard way. The international declined of the United States has to be a priority of the next president, don't forget the threat of a nuclear Iran and North Korea.

The most trouble subject is the falling dollar and this could be the one that destroy the country. So the easy choice will be someone that is not a Republican, after Bush and the incredible support among his peer in Congress, Republicans need to learn a hard lesson, that is to stop the inept policies that somehow are part of a old philosophy of a XX century autocrats. Emigration is the core of any country that wants to be in the lead of this century, energy independence will bring billions of dollars back to the United States and will rest power to OPEC countries.

Getting out of Iraq ASAP will be the wise thing to do -- you invade a country, destroy its army, build one from scratch, let the government run as it wants to, spend a trillion dollars, put the international community against you, put your own people against that war and not happy with it you commit your army for an indeterminate number of years. What?

And people vote Republican? I mean its is great that there is a conservative movement, that religion is part of peoples lives, that certain policies are fought by both sides and a consensus is made. But that has to be the end of it, you as voters, should push the Republican party to focus on those issues that you like, instead of using those issues to pursue others that the whole country truly dislikes.

So vote for a Democrat until the Republican understand that you can't be in Iraq forever, the phrase "we step down when they can step up" its like saying to your kids, we will support you until you can do it by yourself, and your kid is not 5 years old but 25 years old.

The sad thing about this is that Democrats could fall in the same voracious path of power, they could start policies out of touch with this millennium, or pull out of Iraq so fast that the country is left in chaos, or not be hard on terrorism. This is the outcome of one of the most complicated presidencies in resent world history.

Neither Bin Laden was captured nor Iraq is save and with a year left for George to be out of the office, the economy is falling apart, the dollar is crumbling, the American people think the country is in the wrong direction, American Universities are not getting all the brain power that they used to, the price of oil is giving to petro-countries the money to sustain the unsustainable in normal conditions, Global Warming is threatening the world as we know it and most important, we don't have a leading country that could enforce peace, change or guide us toward a sustainable future.

Shame on you who lack the intelligence to govern the most powerful nation in the world; whatever you do affects more than 6 billion people, and the future of human kind.

Vote for a Democrat, or to be more specific for Hillary Clinton when she wins the primary.