The problemis that these foreigners have more to say about our life than we do. Read this:
http://www.state.gov/p/wha/rls/rm/2006/73727.htm
The funny part about this is that we even pay them over a $1million a year to try to get rid of their corruption in their high places.
Bush has made the American taxpayer into a blubbering idiot. We have no choice. I can’t wait until he is out of office.
Neither can I.
Ambassador John F. Maisto, U.S. Permanent Representative to the OAS
Remarks at the Inter-American Institute of Human Rights
San Jose, Costa Rica
September 28, 2006
Implementing the Charter: A Multilateral Commitment Implementing the Charter is, and has to be, a multilateral commitment. Working together in a transparent manner, we must reduce mutual suspicions, speak with frankness, and usher in a new spirit of democratic solidarity with one another.I think you'll be interested in this document, if you haven't already read it (you likely have though).In such a spirit of solidarity, we must act on the Charter to secure democracy where it is threatened. We must act on the Charter to secure democracy with the rule of law. And we must act on the Charter to advance democracy where it is weak or absent. And this will require political will.
To that end, we have an important opportunity to move forward with the objectives we set out at two successive general assemblies where we committed to bolster regional cooperation for strengthening implementation of the Democratic Charter.
The Declaration of Florida and Resolutions 2154 and 2251, adopted in Ft. Lauderdale and Santo Domingo, mark an important multilateral commitment to advance the hemisphere's democratic agenda. Building on previous achievements of the inter-American community to address threats to democracy--Resolution 1080, the Washington Protocol and the Quebec Summit--the Declaration and the accompanying resolutions empower and give the Secretary General a new mandate to move the hemispheric commitment to the Charter and its principles beyond rhetoric, towards practical and politically workable outcomes.