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May 23, 2008 at 12:05:59

New Mexico Governor Richardson: Best USA Secretary of State 2008/Complete Ideal Democrat Dream Team

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America must also renew its commitment to the rule of law and to multilateral cooperation. We must put aside the failed unilateralism of the Bush administration and re-engage our leadership role in institutions like the United Nations, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, and the Organization of American States.

As a diplomat and a public servant, I look at past presidents who had the courage to buck their party line and go against the conventional wisdom to make great gains for our country. It took courage for Truman to reinvest into post-war Europe-including Germany-- with the Marshall Plan. It took courage for the anti-communist Nixon to open China. It took courage for Carter to do what he did at Camp David. It took courage for Reagan to meet with Gorbachev at Reykjavik.

It will take courage to renew America's relationship with the world.... a good place for us to start would be to lead an international effort to protect people trapped in situations like Myanmar and Darfur, where their governments fail to protect their own people. The "responsibility to protect" is a principle that has been unanimously endorsed by 150 heads of state at the 2005 UN World Summit. Such a norm would first demand action to prevent crimes against humanity. But should prevention fail, then the right to protect requires economic, political, diplomatic, legal, security and-- in the last resort-a multi-lateral, UN sanctioned military intervention to stop an atrocity from occurring.

The US has a special role to play in stopping genocide, especially in Africa where the two most horrendous recent human rights abuses have taken place, in Rwanda and now Darfur. History teaches that if the US does not take the lead on ending these abuses, no one else will. We just need to courage to do the right thing. We need to work with our international partners and the United Nations to devise practical mechanisms that will enable the world community to respond quickly, legally, multilaterally and effectively to stop genocide and other great human rights abuses. The norm of national sovereignty is important, and should be preserved, but it is moot when governments fail to protect their own citizens from great suffering."

Stephen Fox is an art dealer from Santa Fe, founder of New Millennium Fine Art in Santa Fe since 1980. Active in international politics, he is working towards banning Aspartame and the establishment of a New Mexico Nutrition Council, with powers to question and even challenge the FDA. He was a "snowball-in-hell" candidate for the US Senate in 1978 and is presently the Managing Editor of the Santa Fe Sun News, a very alternative twice monthly newspaper based in Land of Enchantment's capitol.

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In 1980, Stephen Fox founded New Millennium Fine Art, a Santa Fe gallery specializing in Native American and Landscape, and is very active in New Mexico Legislative consumer protection politics, trying above to get the FDA to rescind its approval for the neurotoxic and carcinogenic artificial sweetener, Aspartame. [http://www.prlog.org/10070694] In a strictly legislative context, his most important writing has been for the Hawaii Senate: http://www.prlog.org/10056715-hawaii-senate In his capacity as Contributing Editor of the Santa Fe Sun News, Fox recently interviewed Mikhail Gorbachev: http://www.prlog.org/10064349-mikhail-gorbachev He has been adamant and resourceful about exposing the charlatans of the sometimes-organic food movement. Take the time to read this press release concerning California Attorney General Jerry Brown's suits against Whole Foods, Avalon, and others, for either knowingly or negligently adding a deadly carcinogen to their body care products and soap, as in Whole Foods 365 Label products: http://www.prlog.org/10079593 He cordially invites all Op Ed News readers to visit New Mexico in 2008!

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woman leftover from the '60's and proud of it. very interested in issues of racism, classism, sexism and homophobia. also, holistic health issues and health freedom of choice. still believe that you are either part of the problem or part of the solution--there is no fence sitting.
tanyawoman leftover from the '60's and proud of it. very interested in issues of racism, classism, sexism and homophobia. also, holistic health issues and health freedom of choice. still believe that you are either part of the problem or part of the solution--there is no fence sitting.

why are you stilling protecting hilary

i dont get it. why are people still trying to protect hilary? what has this woman done or said that would gain anyone's support. she has proved herself a hawk over and over by supporting the war and its continued financing of it. when bill was elected people thought him 'soft' on war but he started more wars than i can think of. i think hiliary will do the same, not only because she wants to look strong, but also because she is a racist to the core and supports large corporate interests. she is a politician, meaning that she will go whichever way the wind blows if it gets her what she wants=the public be damned!

and why would obama want someone like her. she sees the world very differently than he does. i don't know how well he will do in caging the corporate beast in this country /world, but i do know hiliary will keep feeding that beast and our surivival can't stand anymore of that, particularly with the Codex breathing down our necks and hilary supporting it.

i would have loved seeing a woman president, but not this one. she betrays everything that i believe in.

by tanya (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 34 comments) on Monday, May 26, 2008 at 1:55:49 AM

In progress
Samuel BryanIn progress

How about "repairing (the) damage done to USA"

by the last Clinton administration. One can not reverse NAFTA or take on corporations (like oil or Monsanto) with Clinton as VP. Even Obama can't sell a program of "change" while following a program of "appeasement to the DLC".

by Samuel Bryan (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 140 comments) on Monday, May 26, 2008 at 9:19:16 AM

In 1980, Stephen Fox founded New Millennium Fine Art, a Santa Fe gallery specializing in Native American and Landscape, and is very active in New Mexico Legislative consumer protection politics, trying above to get the FDA to rescind its approval for the neurotoxic and carcinogenic artificial sweetener, Aspartame. [http://www.prlog.org/10070694]

In a strictly legislative context, his most important writing has been for the Hawaii Senate: http://www.prlog.org/10056715-hawaii-senate ...

to see more of bio, click on member name
Stephen FoxIn 1980, Stephen Fox founded New Millennium Fine Art, a Santa Fe gallery specializing in Native American and Landscape, and is very active in New Mexico Legislative consumer protection politics, trying above to get the FDA to rescind its approval for the neurotoxic and carcinogenic artificial sweetener, Aspartame. [http://www.prlog.org/10070694]

In a strictly legislative context, his most important writing has been for the Hawaii Senate: http://www.prlog.org/10056715-hawaii-senate ...

to see more of bio, click on member name

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I sometimes agree with what both of you are saying. It is obvious that because she is coming in second to Obama, that she could be offered the VP position, so I am just saying we should get used to it, unless Obama determines he can still clobber McCain with a different Vice Presidential candidate, which has yet to be determined. I have met her in Santa Fe, and she seems like maybe one knotch above an ordinary political hack, and of course, in a state capital like Santa Fe with its legislature, we have plenty of experience with ordinary political hacks. I don't hate her or the period of Bill's Presidency; I do strongly oppose NAFTA and the kind of BS that is ostensibly coming next in that department, like a "Union" between Canada, US, and Mexico; I abhor the manipulation of the governmental processes by big corporations, and this ideal cabinet idea of mine answers at least some of the need to get the big corporations. Either of you or anyone else disagree with that premise?

My main effort in writing this is to help bring about Richardson in the Secretary of State's job. Either of you disagree with that? Got anybody better in mind?

Even that may be "moot," if he and Obama decide he should have the VP candidacy; if that is to be the case, he will be the most internationally minded VP in probably one hundred years!

by Stephen Fox (80 articles, 2 quicklinks, 10 diaries, 475 comments) on Monday, May 26, 2008 at 10:14:36 AM

Just a plain working person that is sick of the lies and our ego driven complacency about those lies.
arlen custerJust a plain working person that is sick of the lies and our ego driven complacency about those lies.

only the packaging will change with the next administration.

I think anyone that believes that any Democrat is going to break the stranglehold big money has on this country, is so delusional as to be irrational. Democrats like the Republicans will never bite the hand that feeds them. Obama, Richardson, Clinton they all say pretty things that could make one believe they care and would do the right thing. The problem is I look at their records. The things they have done and the things they haven't done when they could have. Reality is truth, truth is fact and when one looks at the facts it is easy to see that only the packaging will change with the next administration.

by arlen custer (1 articles, 0 quicklinks, 6 diaries, 287 comments) on Tuesday, May 27, 2008 at 1:45:53 PM

In 1980, Stephen Fox founded New Millennium Fine Art, a Santa Fe gallery specializing in Native American and Landscape, and is very active in New Mexico Legislative consumer protection politics, trying above to get the FDA to rescind its approval for the neurotoxic and carcinogenic artificial sweetener, Aspartame. [http://www.prlog.org/10070694]

In a strictly legislative context, his most important writing has been for the Hawaii Senate: http://www.prlog.org/10056715-hawaii-senate ...

to see more of bio, click on member name
Stephen FoxIn 1980, Stephen Fox founded New Millennium Fine Art, a Santa Fe gallery specializing in Native American and Landscape, and is very active in New Mexico Legislative consumer protection politics, trying above to get the FDA to rescind its approval for the neurotoxic and carcinogenic artificial sweetener, Aspartame. [http://www.prlog.org/10070694]

In a strictly legislative context, his most important writing has been for the Hawaii Senate: http://www.prlog.org/10056715-hawaii-senate ...

to see more of bio, click on member name

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My, what a dismal view you have of the world, truth, politics, etc.... Obama's book, the Audacity of Hope: doesn't that mean anything to you? Read it, and decide. Kennedy and Rockefeller backing Obama means nothing? I know Richardson personally, and have almost a deep faith that he is itching to overturn all of the Bush/Neocon horrible acts in the international realm, and as VP or as SOS, he could get that done. Remember: I am a New Mexican and have known Richardson for 30 years, since he was a staffer on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Capitol Hill. Have some faith; you might become happier.....You perhaps are forgetting how ghastly the past 8 years have been. Please read some Hegel if Marx is too radical for you, and see exactly and precisely where the hell we are as a nation....

by Stephen Fox (80 articles, 2 quicklinks, 10 diaries, 475 comments) on Tuesday, May 27, 2008 at 9:19:10 PM

Political Lies Are What Has Gotten Us Here

I know where we are as a nation and as a world. I have read parts of Obamas books and liked what he said. Talk is cheap. I look at what he has done and has not done. I also understand how politics work in this country. One senator can gum up the works to stop any legislation or presidential order. If Richardson or any other Democrat would have wanted to stop this administration from doing any of the things it has done, They Could Have. If you think I have a negative view of things its only because I refuse to ignore reality. It is pretty ugly but I'm not affraid to look at it. I will not overlook reality and believe some lies just to feel better about things. That is what has gotten us into this mess.

by arlen custer (1 articles, 0 quicklinks, 6 diaries, 287 comments) on Wednesday, May 28, 2008 at 11:29:30 AM

I am a homeopath. I have a doctorate in Naturopathic medicine, with a dissertation on spina bifida; preventive, and maintenance protocols that do not discount mainstream medical practices. I believe that when all is said and done the karma we send will be the karma that comes back to us. Jesus said love your enemies. What a tough mandate. Voltaire said information is light. I think that blurred and sweeping perceptions are why we need to talk together. Thanks for the love and light brought t...

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karmacounselorI am a homeopath. I have a doctorate in Naturopathic medicine, with a dissertation on spina bifida; preventive, and maintenance protocols that do not discount mainstream medical practices. I believe that when all is said and done the karma we send will be the karma that comes back to us. Jesus said love your enemies. What a tough mandate. Voltaire said information is light. I think that blurred and sweeping perceptions are why we need to talk together. Thanks for the love and light brought t...

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why can't hillary be considered a secretary instead

I agree, Richardson is awesome, especially because he convinced me on his campaign tour in Iowa that he would not buckle under in tough situations....

but hillary? give her a committee to chair, a head of health, education and welfare, je ne sais quoi....she and Dean could figure out how to include health as part of education instead of the ridiculous looks I get from teachers when they complain about a low-functioning "special" kid and I ask simply, what did he have for breakfast? hillary should fix that for the sake of women, mothers and birth defects everywhere....

and where is biden? shouldn't he at least be minister of defense? He is the only one who dares defy washington's orders and instead goes to stand to be with the families as their children come off the planes in flag draped coffins....

by karmacounselor (1 articles, 0 quicklinks, 6 diaries, 70 comments) on Wednesday, May 28, 2008 at 2:09:32 PM