<![CDATA[Grist - Comment Feed for The British love Obama too, and hope he’ll inspire climate action]]> Grist Comment Feed en Comment #1 by caniscandida http://www.grist.org/article/brits-eye-view-obama-rama/ Mon, 17 Nov 2008 16:35:44 -0800 http://www.grist.org/article/brits-eye-view-obama-rama/1 extending US citizenship?

On the eve of the election, the Brit ex-pat Timothy Barton Ash wrote (from Stanford, in The New York Review of Books, November 6, 2008):

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... I notice that many Americans still suffer from a touching delusion that this is their election.  How curious.  Don't they understand?  This is our election.  The world's election.  Our future depends on it, and we live it as intensely as Americans do.  All we lack is the vote.
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By the same Enlightenment principles that inspired the US Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, to the effect that all people should have a say in appointing the powers who are to govern them, we might very well argue that many at least around the world should be allowed to vote for President of the US, and should have a Representative and a Senator in Congress.

Chickens deserve our true friendship! So do fish! So do other sentient beings! Let us learn to be kind.



]]> extending US citizenship?

On the eve of the election, the Brit ex-pat Timothy Barton Ash wrote (from Stanford, in The New York Review of Books, November 6, 2008):

<<
... I notice that many Americans still suffer from a touching delusion that this is their election.  How curious.  Don't they understand?  This is our election.  The world's election.  Our future depends on it, and we live it as intensely as Americans do.  All we lack is the vote.
>>

By the same Enlightenment principles that inspired the US Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, to the effect that all people should have a say in appointing the powers who are to govern them, we might very well argue that many at least around the world should be allowed to vote for President of the US, and should have a Representative and a Senator in Congress.

Chickens deserve our true friendship! So do fish! So do other sentient beings! Let us learn to be kind.



]]> Comment #2 by vakibs http://www.grist.org/article/brits-eye-view-obama-rama/ Mon, 17 Nov 2008 21:46:23 -0800 http://www.grist.org/article/brits-eye-view-obama-rama/2 caniscandida

Really, you should be joking ? :)

What we need is a real mandate for the UNO, and increased democracy in the WTO and IMF. We need a strict adherence to the millenium development goals, and the deepest respect to human rights everywhere in the world (including the right to food, the right to energy, the right to health and the right to education).

Please keep the US presidency for yourself.

Let's think in terms of eco-dollars.

]]> caniscandida

Really, you should be joking ? :)

What we need is a real mandate for the UNO, and increased democracy in the WTO and IMF. We need a strict adherence to the millenium development goals, and the deepest respect to human rights everywhere in the world (including the right to food, the right to energy, the right to health and the right to education).

Please keep the US presidency for yourself.

Let's think in terms of eco-dollars.

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