It could be compared to the actual results, see who goes up, who goes down (for those interested) and I do believe that more and more the powers that be take their cues from the internet zeitgeist, and the zeitgeist is where the interest is at, so...if ET can add anything to the U.S. zeitgeist....think of the Obama vicotry as a wave preceding larger waves, it isn't THE wave, it's a bigger wave, with (potentially) bigger waves behind, enlightenment running as fast as we can.
! I like your IMNSHO. Could you say why you think he'd make a great Secretary of State? Remember: the roles aren't officially filled. If the wrong person gets the job, the time to complain is now.
Hope things are well in budrland! Don't fight forces, use them R. Buckminster Fuller.
Richardson has his warts, as all politicians do, but he has earned a solid reputation as a skilled and successful negotiator. Given the multiple, overlapping crises that we face around the globe, we need someone of his caliber at State to help us find multinational, multilateral solutions. Hillary, on the other hand...
Bill Richardson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Clinton in turn sent Richardson on various foreign policy missions, including a trip in 1996 in which Richardson traveled to Baghdad with Peter Bourne and engaged in lengthy one-on-one negotiations with Saddam Hussein to secure the release of two American aerospace workers who had been captured by the Iraqis after wandering over the Kuwaiti border. Richardson also visited Nicaragua, Guatemala, Cuba, Peru, India, North Korea, Bangladesh, Nigeria, and Sudan to represent U.S. interests and met with Slobodan Milosevic.[5] Due to these missions, Richardson was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize three times.[5]
In 1997, Clinton appointed Richardson as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations. As ambassador, he represented the United States in UN proceedings regarding the Palestinian National Authority and the State of Israel,[9] the completion of negotiations that strengthened the role and mandate of the United Nations Environment Programme regarding ecologically sustainable development,[10] as well as other duties of an ambassador to the UN.
In 2000, Bill Richardson was awarded a United States Institute of Peace Senior Fellowship. He spent the next year researching and writing on the negotiations with North Korea and the energy dimensions of U.S. relations.
He supported LGBT rights in his career as governor; he added sexual orientation and gender identity to New Mexico's list of civil rights categories. During the summer of 2003, he met with a delegation from North Korea at their request to discuss concerns over that country's use of nuclear energy. At the request of the White House, he also flew to North Korea in 2005, and met with another North Korean delegation in 2006. On December 7, 2006, Richardson was named as the "Special Envoy for Hemispheric Affairs" for the Secretary General of the Organization of American States with the mandate to "promote dialogue on issues of importance to the region, such as immigration and free trade."[21]
In January 2007, at the request of the Save Darfur Coalition, he brokered a 60-day cease fire between al-Bashir and leaders of several rebel factions in Darfur, the western Sudanese region. The cease-fire never became effective, however, with allegations of breaches on all sides.[27]
