Madeleine Albright

I was fortunate enough today to hear former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright speak here in Munich. With the perfect seat in which to witness the event, Ms. Albright reeled off a series of comments and attacks on the current Bush administration and its policies. As she stated at the beginning of her question and answer session at the end of her talk, “now that I am no longer Secretary of State, I can answer your questions”, and that she did. With no holding back, she talked of the stolen 2000 election, called supporters of Bush “stupid” and that if America re-elects Bush to a second term as president, America would be culpable of its country’s actions in the world, considering that America knows full well Bush’s attitude and intentions in his execution of foreign policy throughout his first term. There were no dissenters in this room as she spoke.

As an American living abroad, attitudes toward the American government are all too obvious, but it was great to hear it from such a woman of high stature and respect. How different the world would be today if the democrats had stayed on in power after the 2000 election. We can only hope that will change on November 2nd.