The 2008 Presidential election

Already speculation has started about who will take over in the White House in 2008, Hillary Clinton is widely believed to enter into the race even though she still denies it, or as she says "Have not made up my mind yet".

Several others are gearing up but I must say that the most unlikely candidate has surfaced recently. Christopher Walken has a webpage declaring his candidacy for president 2008, is it real or just a hoax? I don't know you have to judge for yourselves, but it begs the question, what is it in politics that attracts actors? And how come so many actors actually become politicians.

As another user said on another forum:
The amount of actors from the movie "The Predator" that has become Governors of US States is frightfully high.

Sincerely
Mr Silence Dogood

In a speech given at the end of last year to commemorate the twentieth anniversary of the National Endowment for Democracy, President Bush asserted, “The establishment of a free Iraq at the heart of the Middle East will be a watershed event in the global democratic revolution.”

In turning the promotion of democracy into a centerpiece of his foreign policy agenda, the president has opened up a critical area of debate: can direct conquest and occupation pave the way for democracy? Many see it as unconscionably risky to attempt to impose democracy on a country as fractious and brutalized as Iraq. As Merrill House speaker Benjamin Barber put it:
“How do you create democracy in regimes that have only known tyranny, theocracy, dictatorship, or even totalitarianism? Our record here is not great.”

the Bush administration assumed that democracy in Iraq could begin by developing free markets. However, history has proved that capitalism needs democracy more than the other way around; thus the notion that the path to democratization lies directly through marketization is a terrible mistake. The question remains, can democracy be exported?

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Mr SIlence Dogood

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Hello good folks

My server is currently with Bonnie over the ocean, I'm sitting by the docks wanting my Bonnie to come back to me.

However there will be a few days(weeks) before I can get my domain back up and running again, sorry for that...

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Mr Silence Dogood