presidential successors

Vice President, Joe Biden: Joe Biden was born in Scranton, Pennsylvaniain in 1942. At age 29, he became one of the youngest people ever elected to the United States Senate. As a Senator from Delaware for 36 years, Senator Biden established himself as a leader on some of our nation's most important domestic and international challenges. as the Vice President Joe Biden has continued his leadership on important issues facing the nation. He was tasked with implementing the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, helping to rebuild our economy and lay the foundation for a sustainable economic future.
Secretary of Homeland Security, Janet Napolitano: Janet Napolitano is the third Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security.To counter the threat of terrorism, Napolitano has forged new partnerships with international allies, and expanded information sharing with federal, state and local law enforcement. Prior to becoming Secretary, Napolitano was in her second term as Governor of Arizona and was recognized as a national leader on homeland security, border security and immigration.

role of the presidency

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_the_United_States#Article_I_legislative_role
the role of the president by definition is to pass or veto legislation.the Presentment Clause requires any bill passed by Congress to be presented to the president before it can become law. when this happens the president can either pass the bill or veto it. he can also do nothing.
http://www2.scholastic.com/browse/article.jsp?id=4683
being the president means you have certain responsibilities or roles. these roles are as the Chief of State, Chief Executive, Chief Diplomat, Commander-in-Chief, Chief Legislator, Chief of Party, and Chief Guardian of the economy.
http://usgovinfo.about.com/cs/agencies/a/presbrief.htm
the president serves as Commander in Chief of the United States' armed forces deployed around the world. he is also the head of the Executive branch of the Government and all legislation goes through him.
http://www2.smumn.edu/deptpages/~instructtech/institutional_planning/role_president.htm
the president is the sponser and initiater of stratigic planning. he provides leadership, direction and planning.The President is the chief spokesman of strategic planning.

economies

capitalism: a free enterprise economy based on profit and loss of capital. Pros: freedom to start own business, profit. Cons: threat of monopolies and trusts, greater risk of loss.

socialism: economy based on equal distribution of wealth among society. Pros: working class has more power, individuals don't hold almost all the wealth. Cons: too much bureaucracy, less gets done.

communism: economy with collective, or state ownership of land and other productive property. Pros: ideally there would be no social classes or exploitation of labor. Cons: very little freedom, too much govt. control.

foreign govts.

1. japan: japan is a parliamentary democracy. its current constitution was adopted in 1947 after WWII. Japan's Parliament - the national diet - is the highest organ of state power, comprised of the house of councillors and the house of representatives, who specialize in consensus politics.
  russia: Lenin and Stalin were the ones who brought communism to russia. it stayed with communisn until Mikhail Gorbachev reformed russia under the principles of perestoika and glasnost. the current russian govet os one of democracy, similar to the US.
2. the US is all deeply involved with them in some way, we also were at war with them at some point in history
3. none of them are the same in there form of govt. and economy together.
4. as far as stength i think china has the strongest because of their bustling economy and power of their people.
5.democracy

britan

both Great Britain and the U.S. are involved in the Middle East and we both primarily speak English. however, Britain has a Parliamentary monarchy while we have a democracy, also Great Britain is much older than the U.S.

current events:
there is a big debate in the UK whether  or not to provide large scale aid to India. the british Conservative Party that the support was 'unjustifiable' because of india large spending on defence and space programs. the argument seems to be that india is perfectly capable of handleign itself.

i think that while india does seem to be doing well for itself, there are still many poor areas of the country  that could use the UK's aid and it seems selfish of them not to help.


The British government is expected to announce full marriage equality for gays and lesbians under reforms to marriage laws expected to be announced later this week by the liberal democrat equality minister, Lynne Featherstone. The reported move will end the final major legal discrimination against gays and lesbians in Britain.

i personaly have nothing against homosexuals and i feel there should have the same rights as everyone else. it is good to hear that britain is moving forward in the way people are treated, like human beings. im sure we won't follow thir example any time soon, our government like to bicker over pointless crap way too much.