The Blue State Person of the Year

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[George]

WOOOOOO!!!!

I think it snowed like 5 inches in NYC this calendar year. And I dont think the warming is local. I think it is global.

For the last time in 2006 I will say it: Gore/Obama '08. LANDSLIDE. Can you imagine that team? They would totally destroy all comers. 60% of the vote easy.

[Michel]

Yes. My thinking lately is that people want Hillary because she's close to Bill, but in reality, if you want another Bill, Gore, Obama and Edwards are better choices.

[Michel]

I'm a little optimistic that Hillary will lose because we just dealt with a similar thing in Canada.

Our Liberal Party had been looking for 8 months or more like some guys I really didn't want to win were going to get control of the party. They were going to make the party a little too conservative, in a Hillary or Liebermann kinda way (I actually just found out 2 days ago that Liebermann was running on Gore's ticket at VP! I guess I wasn't as politically active then, I just knew I never liked Bush.) In fact the leader in the polls was just like Hillary, in that he had much more money than anyone else.

The good news though is that at the end, the liberals who were voting were just using strategy in the early stages of the game, and at the end, they voted for a respectable prime minister candidate (in my opinion), Stéphane Dion, who was a long time professor (that's right, NOT a lawyer), the minister of Environment in Canada and the one who pushed to bring to Montreal what is now called the Montreal Climate Change Conference (a follow up on Kyoto). Just to give you an idea, this guy's dog is named Kyoto. :)

By no means is he only about the environment. I agree with him on a ton of issues. But that he was in charge of the environment, and that he dealt with it so well, speaks, I think, to the skill of the guy.

I'm also hoping that in the next election in Canada, he'll win. With any democrat, even maybe Hillary, we might bring back the good ol' days of Clinton/Chrétien.

Our election will likely take place before your US election since we have a minority government; ie. the leading party does not have more than 50% of the seats (Canada has more than two big parties). After 8 years of Bush, I could certainly use a little more liberal thinking in politics :)

[George]

More than 2 parties? haha - how ridiculous. I'll send some "Americans" up there to show you how a real democracy is supposed to work. 2 choices only!

Speaking of lawyers, a great line from Barack Obama's new book: "We need to produce more engineers and less lawyers."

Brilliant. Lawyers don't create anything. A society that does not create is as good as done.