| By Ralph T - Apr 15th, 2007 at 8:24 pm EDT |
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No, this is a not a simple answer to what may turn out to be the greatest decision that many of us will make in our lifetimes. Choosing the successor to the current occupant of the White House is no trivial matter. Considering (give it a few days-weeks to sink in) the sheer magnitude of the tasks necessary to un-do the enormous damage done by the current mis-adminstration drives home this importance.
To that end I offer May 2007 Esquire magazine. OK, by-pass the pop-culture, beautiful people, buy-buy-buy, cute and trendy…but turn-on your mind when you get to page 108. Here you will find the latest revelations of Thomas P.M. Barnett, “The State of the World.” You’ll need to already be a subscriber (those are the “…whoops missed that one…” crew) or hope that you can find a copy for sale at a local store, because Barnett’s stuff is rarely found free off of the internet.
Some of this stuff is so scary smart it hurts to read it, the first time, the second and maybe even the third. After even partially absorbing his “good news – bad news – wild card” explanation of the world, and how the current occupant has undermined this Nation, I am very impressed with his summation of the 2008 election:
“Don’t listen to candidates who tell you this whole election boils down to one thing and one thing alone. We need a president with more than one answer to every question, one whose tool kit is as diverse as his – or her – ideology is flexible. We need a deal maker, a compromiser, a closer. We need someone able to finish what others cannot and start that which others dare not.
We need a leader who knows many things, because we’ve had quite enough of those who know only one big thing.”
- Thomas P.M. Barnett, Esquire magazine, The State of the World, page 136.
Another thing that I would find very necessary is a candidate for president who can demonstrate even a 50% understanding of the world and US National Security at the level of Mr. Barnett. Provided that either Barnett himself is waiting in the wings to occupy a key post in the National Security Agency or the presence of a Barnett protégé to fill in the gaps.
In 645 days the next Democratic President of the United States of America will inherit the sacred, and horrific, tasks necessary to restore this Nation. Having the intellectual quality of someone like Barnett behind them will be reassuring.
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Installing a "one-trick pony" may be accpetable for a seat in the US House of Representatives. But, that is a pathetic strategy for saving this country frrom the current occupant of the White House.
The best service TT could do for his party and the Nation is to drive Rove, Dobson and Norquist back into the holes they slithered out of and restore some dignity and integrity to the GOP. He may have truly earned inclusion in the "house crazies" group, but this current crew of subversives is beyond intolerable. Otherwise, if one cause is all you can handle...the Presidency is not just a leap of faith, but more akin to attempting a moon launch with a pop-bottle rocket.