How to be a great Liberal leader

Here's what I want from my national political leader:

- stop the war on an emotion: terror.
- Fight the crime of planning and carrying out bombing attacks, don't attempt to remove an emotion from the world.
- Figure out how to change the perspectives of people who think hurting US interests is a good idea. and, fyi, trying to kill them won't do it.


- stop the war on drugs
- a ridiculous idea also. Hundreds of billions of dollars spent fighting the wrong thing. sounds familiar. Check out Walter Cronkite's essay
- make Marijuana legal

- (as I've said here before) put the right to abortion up for a popular vote, and frame the question in such a way that wins.

- Double federal and state education funding, focusing on teacher salaries

- increase foreign student grants, get young people from other countries to go to Universities here!

- Propose real tax reform: don't let corporations hide their money in off-shore accounts

- Fix elections: lose the electoral college, redo the redistricting process, create severe campaign finance reform.

- promise to *not* run fpr re-election. Yes, you can be on the ballot again, but don't spend a dime on a campaign.