Is John McCain 72?

Image via WikipediaAccording to Google he is and this article. Well, now I am flummoxed. What is the matter with people? I know all about seniors and their capacity to contribute…but running a country? Even Her Majesty doesn’t run the country. It means if John McCain gets in , America will be yet another place where the elected leader ends up not being the leader. We are getting quite used to it here with our states in Australia. The people are voting for someone and then the someone disappears and another someone takes over and then there’s an election and another someone takes over. You can lose the plot and the personal impact! Leadership just becomes a blur. Is that what America wants? A leadership blur? Even if John McCain is hail and hearty, how old will he be at the next election? Elder statesmen need to play a critical role at this point in time and that is the role of wise counsel. The world is a bit frantic at the moment. You need a lot of energy, enthusiasm, guts, courage and energy to lead a nation at this point in time. So you need someone who can rally people to whatever the cause of the day is, because that seems to be how it is playing out at the moment and then you need someone who can get people on side, negotiate, network, get here there and everywhere in a hurry . Leaders seem to have to meet anywhere in the world at the drop of a hat. The need to be perpetually enthusiastic and positive. They can’t afford to be stuck in their ways or struggling for responses and that is where the elder statesmen come in. Their knowledge and experience is invaluable for reading situations and giving sound advice in terms of protocol and possible approaches. They can be the think tank online and on tap. The job itself needs someone who can get up and just go and go and go…and talk 19 to the dozen and jet hop with the best of them. That’s life in 2008.

Nobel Prize Anti US bias

Image via WikipediaThere is an article which claims there is an anti US bias in the Nobel Literature prizes. If you google Nobel prize winners for America an Australia, America has 72 awesome Nobel Prize winners and that is only up to the 1960s! Australia has 10! In all the years for all the prizes so you could more easily claim that the Nobel Prize has an anti Australian bias. The literature winners are here and we are talking profoundly inspired people . Authors who have had such a profound impact on the world as well as literature. The good thing about our world is that different cultures inspire and develop different things. For the Americans to have had so many Nobel Prize winners overall is something to be proud of . The claims discussed in this article seem silly really when you look at the facts and the incredible achievements of Nobel Prize winners.