Posted on 03/29/2008 6:57:07 AM PDT by moderatewolverine
ON MARCH 22, Taiwan's citizens, demonstrating their commitment to a free and open political system, overwhelmingly elected Ma Ying-jeou, the candidate of the Nationalist Party, as their new president. With 76% of eligible voters turning out, Ma beat the Democratic People's Party candidate, 58% to 42%.
This represents Taiwan's second peaceful transition of power through free and fair national elections; the first came in 2000, when incumbent President Chen Shui-bian, of the DPP, defeated the Nationalists, who had maintained one-party rule for nearly half a century.
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John Bolton? Lol!! The guy who resigned from UN ambassador with embarrassment; the guy who claimed US will be in and out of Iraq with in 2 years? I thought he is discredited and out of job a long time ago. Apparently, the liberal media is paying him to talk trash again.
We must know different JOhn Boltons. THe one I know was not confirmed by the recalcitrant vengeful dem senate. He was not discredited. Far from it, he is a very smart man who talks truth and knows his business.
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