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What really ticks me off is that we have rarely needed a truly noble leader as we do today. We can't afford mediocrity right now, much less treachery.
Bush says ‘diversity’ key for next top court pick
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Quoted from lead article:
Bayh will vote against Roberts Sen. Evan Bayh, a possible Democratic
presidential candidate in 2008, introduced Roberts to the Senate Judiciary
Committee for the confirmation hearings. But he will vote against him, he said.
“I cannot vote to confirm, not because I oppose John Roberts, but because
we simply do not know enough about his views on critical issues to make a
considered judgment,” Bayh said.
The limited information from the nominee’s paper record raised troubling
issues about Roberts’ judicial temperament, said Sen. Mark Dayton, D-Minn.
“I am deeply concerned that he and President Bush’s next nominee will shift
the Supreme Court close to the extreme right for many years to come,”
Dayton said.
Like Dayton, senators likely will use their speeches and votes to warn Bush —
and other senators — of what they expect when the White House makes its
selection to replace retiring Justice O’Connor.
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Quoted from "The Hard Road to World Order" by Richard Gardner (1974):
We are witnessing an outbreak of shortsighted nationalism that seems
oblivious to the economic, political and moral implications of interdependence.
Yet never has there been such widespread recognition by the world's
intellectual leadership of the necessity for cooperation and planning on a
truly global basis, beyond country, beyond region, especially beyond social
system. Never has there been such an extraordinary growth in the
constructive potential of transnational private organizations — not just
multinational corporations but international associations of every kind in which
like-minded persons around the world weave effective patterns of global
action.
<snip>
Thus, while we will not see "world government" in the old-fashioned sense of a
single all-embracing global authority, key elements of planetary planning and
planetary management will come about on those very specific problems
where the facts of interdependence force nations, in their enlightened self-
interest, to abandon unilateral decision-making in favor of multilateral
processes.
<snip><special emphasis below>
To be sure, changes in outmoded or unreasonable decision-making
arrangements may be opposed initially by the countries that presently have
more than their fair share of influence. The challenge to multilateral
diplomacy—and one that has not been seriously faced so far—is to persuade
the countries that are overendowed [
] with power in a particular
institution that a fairer sharing is needed to save the institution from
creeping irrelevance and make it more effective on matters of interest to
them.
<snip>
We will know we are serious about our "world order business" when we stop
using positions in our missions and delegations to international agencies for
political payoffs, and start applying the same requirements of excellence here
that we apply in negotiations with the Russians and Chinese. Another test of
our seriousness will be the extent to which we include in the very top
structure of decision-making —in the White House and the key executive
departments— persons experienced in and committed to the multilateral
approach.
Quoted from lead article:
Bayh will vote against Roberts Sen. Evan Bayh, a possible Democratic
presidential candidate in 2008, introduced Roberts to the Senate Judiciary
Committee for the confirmation hearings. But he will vote against him, he said.
“I cannot vote to confirm, not because I oppose John Roberts, but because
we simply do not know enough about his views on critical issues to make a
considered judgment,” Bayh said.
The limited information from the nominee’s paper record raised troubling
issues about Roberts’ judicial temperament, said Sen. Mark Dayton, D-Minn.
“I am deeply concerned that he and President Bush’s next nominee will shift
the Supreme Court close to the extreme right for many years to come,”
Dayton said.
Like Dayton, senators likely will use their speeches and votes to warn Bush —
and other senators — of what they expect when the White House makes its
selection to replace retiring Justice O’Connor.
------------------
Quoted from "The Hard Road to World Order" by Richard Gardner (1974):
We are witnessing an outbreak of shortsighted nationalism that seems
oblivious to the economic, political and moral implications of interdependence.
Yet never has there been such widespread recognition by the world's
intellectual leadership of the necessity for cooperation and planning on a
truly global basis, beyond country, beyond region, especially beyond social
system. Never has there been such an extraordinary growth in the
constructive potential of transnational private organizations — not just
multinational corporations but international associations of every kind in which
like-minded persons around the world weave effective patterns of global
action.
<snip>
Thus, while we will not see "world government" in the old-fashioned sense of a
single all-embracing global authority, key elements of planetary planning and
planetary management will come about on those very specific problems
where the facts of interdependence force nations, in their enlightened self-
interest, to abandon unilateral decision-making in favor of multilateral
processes.
<snip><special emphasis below>
To be sure, changes in outmoded or unreasonable decision-making
arrangements may be opposed initially by the countries that presently have
more than their fair share of influence. The challenge to multilateral
diplomacy—and one that has not been seriously faced so far—is to persuade
the countries that are overendowed [
] with power in a particular institution that a fairer sharing is needed to save the institution from
creeping irrelevance and make it more effective on matters of interest to
them.
<snip>
We will know we are serious about our "world order business" when we stop
using positions in our missions and delegations to international agencies for
political payoffs, and start applying the same requirements of excellence here
that we apply in negotiations with the Russians and Chinese. Another test of
our seriousness will be the extent to which we include in the very top
structure of decision-making —in the White House and the key executive
departments— persons experienced in and committed to the multilateral
approach.
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