Comments on: Screw Taiwan, Where’s OUR Lee Myung-bak?

By: mins0306

mins0306 — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 21:43:16 +0000

Others like myself know full-well his many and serious shortcomings and still like him.

And there are some like myself, who are taking a wait and see approach regarding him.

By: Linkd

Linkd — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 21:29:45 +0000

Your #10 doesn’t support your #7, WangKon. In parliamentary systems, we can’t vote directly for our “presidents” (prime ministers, that is). We can only vote for the party representative in our own district. Then the leader of the party with the most districts automatically becomes the PM.

By: WangKon936

WangKon936 — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 21:22:09 +0000

# 9,

A democracy? You have a very narrow view of what a democracy may be. Unless you think that a few small states effectively CHOOSING a major party’s Presidential candidate is “democratic.”

Besides, not all “democracies” have a primary system. Most parliamentary democracies do not for example.

By: SomeguyinKorea

SomeguyinKorea — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 21:10:57 +0000

#7,

It’s a democracy. Don’t blame the system, blame the voters. You could have elected Ross Perot, Ralph Nader, and even Frank Zappa…but you didn’t.

By: SomeguyinKorea

SomeguyinKorea — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 21:03:12 +0000

“You may not agree with all his policies, but most of his policies really do stand out from the past.”

You do remember that you’re talking about a guy whose main campaign promise was designed to appeal to those nostalgic of the Park Chung Hee years, right?

By: WangKon936

WangKon936 — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 20:09:26 +0000

I blame the American primary system which habitually puts in front of us boring, career politicians way too tied to special interests and the interests of their own party instead of vigorous, out-of-the-box, go getters who want to be leaders not just presidents.

Also, that article reminded me of something Michael Breen once said:

“Once they get our attention, you can find that there is much one can learn from the Koreans.”

By: Robert Koehler

Robert Koehler — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 19:48:28 +0000

OK, Marmot’s crowd don’t like Lee.

Well, I think it’s better to say some of Marmot’s crowd don’t like Lee. Others like myself know full-well his many and serious shortcomings and still like him.

By: cm

cm — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 19:23:52 +0000

OK, Marmot’s crowd don’t like Lee.
Well I like Lee. You may not agree with all his policies, but most of his policies really do stand out from the past. For instance:

Lee’s policy on Korea’s small/medium sized companies:
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Korea/JA05Dg01.html

Lee’s policy on foreign investment:
http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/ww.....16710.html

Lee’s foreign policy with America:
http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/ww.....16719.html

Lee’s policy on the education:
http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/ww.....16726.html

It’s as if this guy is intending to change everything around completely. And I think he really will do them too.

By: Netizen Kim

Netizen Kim — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 16:28:24 +0000

The only candidate that would come close to resembling LMB would be Mike Bloomberg.

What America needs is a Jewish president.

By: SomeguyinKorea

SomeguyinKorea — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 04:20:55 +0000

The US needs a pro-business president?

But, isn’t that the problem with George W. Bush (well, that and his Christian fundamentalism)?