re-unionization, what a beautiful thought! I had that thought as I skimmed quickly through the announcements made by both Kerry and Bush today... and afterward, the only thing I really retained was... if politicians, and Americans in general could be so darn civil, open, accepting, and willing to work together toward some common goals we would be a much better country for it. It's not possible that you will be able to get the American population (let alone the global population) to come to agreement on every issue, but we all can agree that we treasure things like our rights laid out by our forefathers... and preservation and protection of those rights is important. I think if we spend more time focusing on the common goals and wants... it will be easier to accept and overcome some of the points where we have varying opinions.

I know, it's probably time for me to sleep and step out of the utopia that I think in sometimes. But I truly believe if people could focus the energy they put into disagreement and argument for a cause (hopefully a beneficial cause) this would be a better place to live ... this place we call America.

But, alas I'm nearly completely off topic. It's interesting to me that CP is concerned about how the US election will impact her investment in China, yet we hear all too often from fellow Americans how we need to be HOME focused rather than global focused. I think that whatever the answer is to CP's question is irrelevant (to me) but rather a confirmation to the fact that US is a powerful nation and its actions and leadership have worldly impacts.

And my last rambling point, correct me if I'm wrong fellow pixies, but war happens, has happened before Bush, and will inevitably happen after Bush. To say we are in a war because of Bush and this is his downfall I don't think is completely fair as he certainly isn't the only President that led us there. Not to mention the US isn't the only nation that participates in wars. I'm no expert (and probably should keep my mouth shut for that reason) but I thought that there was plenty of civil unrest, guerilla actions, and other wars happening independantly of the actions the US is part of in Iraq and Afghanistan.