manixrock

For presidents it is important, but for the rest of us it is more important to get things done and see your legacy in the world.

In 200 years Obama will be remembered as a president among hundred others. Whatever degree of success you'll end up having, I think in 200 years you'll still be remembered as a pioneer of freedom of information.

You're not the first country, nor the last to go from an oppressive regime to democracy and capitalism. That feeling never lasts, and corruption never really goes away, it just hides until the waves have passed.

As someone who lives in such a country, my advice would be to put aside these emotions as they make you easily manipulatable by politicians spouting nice-sounding rhetoric that appeals to the heart and not the mind. Instead ask for, and make sure you get laws that avoid problems that are so easily visible in capitalist democracies today. Restricting corporate control over government (either hidden, or visible such as campaign contributions), ensuring free speech (including an open, uncensored and unregulated internet), forcing the government to be transparent (anyone in an official position is working for the people, and while working in that position should not be able to invoke privacy to hide his/her actions).

You have done a great thing, but think ahead and try to avoid the mistake done by others. You owe it to the next generation.

More info on this please, I never knew this. Do they portray it as a mistake, a necessary act born of desperation, gullible people mislead by evil leaders?

I agree that decentralizing the food supply is a good idea in general, but growing food at home requires just as much water, so it would not help in any way to decrease water usage. In fact due to economies of scale, centralization of production should reduce water usage.

Shouldn't racism preclude intent? If he didn't know what it means he couldn't have been racist (well, not because of that).