> On May 7, 5:06 am, "ltl...@hotmail.com" hotmail.com> wrote:
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>> In his NYTimes column article with the title of "Who Will Tell the
>> People?", Thomas Friedman explained the decline of American power,

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>> "[we are] not as powerful as we used to be because over the past three
>> decades, the Asian values of our parents’ generation — work hard,
>> study, save, invest, live within your means — have given way to
>> subprime values: “You can have the American dream — a house — with no
>> money down and no payments for two years.”"

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>> The following also caught my attention.

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>> "Much nonsense has been written about how Hillary Clinton is
>> “toughening up” Barack Obama so he’ll be tough enough to withstand
>> Republican attacks. Sorry, we don’t need a president who is tough
>> enough to withstand the lies of his opponents. We need a president who
>> is tough enough to tell the truth to the American people. Any one of
>> the candidates can answer the Red Phone at 3 a.m. in the White House
>> bedroom. I’m voting for the one who can talk straight to the American
>> people on national TV — at 8 p.m. — from the White House East Room."

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>> The above says a lot on what's wrong with American democracy. In the
>> current two party set up, political leaders often respond to the
>> opposite party rather than to the needs and wants of the poeple. In
>> this case, Friedman found Clinton's claim that she was toughening up
>> Barack Obama against future Republican attacks bogus. Simply put, such
>> nonsense changes the responsibility of the U.S. presidency from
>> responding to the people to responding to the opposition.

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> When politicle is strong, it will become dictator of totalitarian
> ruler. When multi-parties are strong, they will become multiple
> dictors of totalitarian rulers at the same time. To remove one
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