Oh, the good old days…. September 27, 2008

Tonight I watched the daily show episode in which Bill Clinton was interviewed. You should go and check it out here if you have a second. Honestly, it really made me miss him as president. The dude is fucking smart and no matter what you want to say about him personally, he was a pretty kick ass president. It also brought up my resentment that Hillary lost the democratic ticket in this election. They would have been a power couple for sure, and that wouldn’t have been a bad thing!! Both of them are extremely intelligent and try and do the best that they can for this country. I’m sad they won’t get the chance to try and turn this country around.

You should watch the interview though as Bill had some things to say about the current financial crisis and the criticism that Hillary has received for not supporting Obama “enough”. I only wish that Jon Stewart had a longer show, I would have loved to hear Clinton’s view on Sarah Palin.

Kind of on a random note, but with the news constantly providing me with evidence that America is falling apart I have begun to pay more to things on the international front. I have a sneaking suspicion I will be wanting to bail out on this place if things continue they way they do. I will now have two friends living over in England that I absolutely promised to go and visit next year and I’m sure I will be tempted to stay.

With that being said, congratulations to Rwanda, the first nation in the world to have a female majority in their parliament. Again, and surprisingly enough, Africa is leading the forefront in women in government. A few years ago Liberia democratically elected the first female president.

I was interested to find out that Rwanda actually has a gender quota in which 30% of parliament must be women, but that recently women have been gaining more support in government involvement in excess of this quota. Part of this is the fact that women are actually 56% of the population and that they are actually seen as being more trustworthy and responsible then males when it comes to issues of the community. This is understandable when we remember the violence that Rwanda saw with the whole genocide issue they dealt with a few years back.

My friend Rachell left today for Cambridge University (she will be missed!!) to begin her masters in philosophy and part of her focus will be on gender quotas. I’m not sure how I feel about them myself and I can’t wait to be able to pick her brain on what she comes up with!

After seeing the treatment of women throughout this election its nice to see that elsewhere women are making some progress.

And of course with the election coming up on us so soon I’m not going to be able to help myself and start paying attention more to the news and such. I’m going to get really annoying about getting people to vote, so if you don’t like politics, or are deciding to spit in the face of a right that people die for else where in the world and don’t vote, you probably shouldn’t talk to me the next month.

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