Word: elections
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Throughout the 2008 presidential elections, several candidates have sought to utilize anti-Islam prejudices to their advantage. In January of 2007, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton’s campaign team deliberately turned the public’s attention to Senator Barack Hussein Obama’s Muslim heritage in order to harm his popularity. Obama, in turn, worked very hard to distance himself from any past or present affiliation with Muslims and Islam, citing the Bible in his speeches and emphasizing his personal relationship with Jesus Christ. Republicans, for their part, haven’t been much better. Formulaic prefaces...
...Robert Mugabe and Uganda's Yoweri Museveni are among those who tried to alter their country's constitutions--some successfully--to cling to power. African voters are to some extent complicit in the undermining of democracy. When given an opportunity to vote out one corrupt leader, they often elect another, hoping he will be more generous with his ill-gotten gains...
...wrote my book Memo to the President Elect for the next President because they are going to have a very hard job to do. Our reputation is the lowest that it has ever been. This presidency has done a great deal of damage, and I'm very glad that it will...
...direct rail link opened between Seoul and the Kaesong Industrial Complex across the DMZ in the North, and work continues on a variety of other infrastructure projects, including extending the rail line all the way to the North's border with China. Not even South Korea's newly elected President Lee Myung Bak, a political hard-liner when it comes to dealing with Pyongyang, seems willing to break the increasingly warm embrace. "If North Korea opens up, and proceeds to dismantle its nuclear program, the South Korean government can increase and deepen its economic cooperation with the North,'' says...
...extraordinary the United States of America is. Freedom House, an NGO that analyzes countries’ comparative levels of freedom globally, correctly describes the USA as “free”—as a country in which citizens enjoy many political rights and civil liberties. We elect our own government. We have freedom of assembly, press, and speech. (We even, for the most part, have working toilets...