Leaving soon
The Germans are watching the primaries and Watching America.com has an incisive op-ed from Sued Deutsche.
The problem that faces voters, it says,
America is insecure about its own course. The nation wants to get away from George W. Bush, who continually split not only the world, but also his own nation into good and bad and into left and right.
Written before Saturday’s primaries, the article’s interpretation of the results of Iowa and New Hampshire, seem born out by Saturday’s results.
.. In Iowa, people cried for reformation, for the democratic savior, Barack Obama, and the republican preacher, Mike Huckabee. Yet on the other hand, voters from New Hampshire are calling for experience and supposedly coming to their senses – which is why Hillary Clinton and John McCain, the two oldest faces in the favorite’s corner, are all of a sudden shining again.
… as indeed they did on Saturday… Why?
New Hampshire, although already chosen as the cemetery of the Clinton-Dynasty, revived Hillary. And McCain, the so-called old man, appears young.
And why is it all so much fun?
Campaigns and caravans move on, America’s democracy goes on a rampage. The beginning of the end of the electoral campaigns did not take place. It was only the end of the beginning.
Read more in “A Nation Searching” on Watching America.com
Robin Koerner is a British-born citizen of the USA, who currently serves as Academic Dean of the John Locke Institute. He holds graduate degrees in both Physics and the Philosophy of Science from the University of Cambridge (U.K.). He is also the founder of WatchingAmerica.com, an organization of over 100 volunteers that translates and posts in English views about the USA from all over the world.
Robin may be best known for having coined the term “Blue Republican” to refer to liberals and independents who joined the GOP to support Ron Paul’s bid for the presidency in 2012 (and, in so doing, launching the largest coalition that existed for that candidate).
Robin’s current work as a trainer and a consultant, and his book If You Can Keep It , focus on overcoming distrust and bridging ideological division to improve politics and lives. His current project, Humilitarian, promotes humility and civility as a basis for improved political discourse and outcomes.