Isn’t it strange that two very different leaders, Vaclav Havel and Kim Jong Il, died on the same day.
People always joke that the only duty a US Vice President has is to go to funerals, but I know which one I would want him to attend.
The Velvet Revolution leader, President Havel, was a true leader who rose up from nothing and led his people to freedom. A great light has gone out with his passing.
A dictator also died, who starved his people to create nuclear weapons and a huge army.
If you look at our Republican candidates, Mr. Gingrich wants to do away with the Judicial branch of our government, one of three branches, including Congress and the Executive, that are mandated in our Constitution. I assume he wants to do this without Congressional approval, the approval of the US citizenry or go through the nasty process that the ERA movement failed, twice.
I think this smells a bit like a dictatorship in the making. Our ancestors Washington, Jefferson, Franklin, Lincoln, Roosevelt(s) and others are already turning in their graves. People like Mr. Havel have used power to free the powerless, the poor, the hungry. Dictators take the spoils for themselves and feast at the table alone, or with the company of the elite and corporations that keep the wealth of a, even this, country to themselves.
I understand the need for public financing of campaigns but one candidate is always rich enough to pay for his own campaign, and trounces the other by buying the voters. We are becoming a nation visibly governed by corporate interests (it’s always been there, do you think I just fell off the turnip truck?).
Think about what leadership means to you, or tell me you know it when you see it. In memory of Vaclav Havel, Dee
Work for something because it is good, not just because it stands a chance to succeed.
Vaclav Havel
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Cooking with Dee 