Looking for inspiration on how to achieve global prosperity, I was surfing on the Center for Global Development website. I came upon this note explaining Obama’s strategy and commitment to international development. I agree with all his ideas: double U.S. foreign assistance to $50 billion; invest in agriculture and infrastructure; establish a $2 billion global education fund; launch a global energy and environment initiative; lead reform of the IMF and World Bank; and coordinate U.S. foreign assistance, including the MCA and PEPFAR, in a restructured U.S. Agency for International Development. Ok, these are idealistic and seem impossible to achieve but still, he believes in an interconnected world where poor countries need to grow and he seems like he wants to take action. He does not appear as a rotten opportunistic politician as Hillary is.Anyway, she will be the next American President and world leader, and the fact that she is a woman will have great impacts. So the best thing that could happen is that she selects Obama as the Secretary of State.
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I wish I could share your optimism with regards to a Democrat being elected president in 2008. You seem to think of it as a given--I thought so too in 2004. Lesson: never underestimate the infuriating ignorance of American voters!
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