Esquire has some fun with people in the news:
The 75 Most Influential People of the 21st Century
We set out to find them across every field of endeavor, the people who are bending history right now. It was an impossible task, but the result is a determined, defiant, earnest, brilliant, philanthropic, space-going, smoking-hot group, and together they are writing the first chapter of the rest of our lives.
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If you wanted a greater sign that American politics is broken, consider the following:
regardless of who wins the Democratic and Republican conventions, it is very possible that 2008’s Elections will bring out two very viable Independents:
- Ron Paul: sure, he’s a Republican now, but he’s actually a Libertarian and has enough money - $20M raised - to make a run after the Republicans choose whichever pro-war, anti-peace candidate they fancy. According to Haaretz:
The most interesting political question about Paul concerns whether he will run as an independent after he loses the Republican nod. Paul refuses to promise that he won’t, and one can already hear how would frame an independent run: “The investment was made by the supporters,” he notes. They gave the money, they’ll decide what to do with it. In other words, if they demand it, he will have no choice but to go forward.
- Mayor Michael Bloomberg: the man was once a Democrat, then a Republicn, now he’s an Independent. The implication is clear.
All to say, 2008 will be interesting, and America’s future is at stake.
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