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…to bring a new hope for the Nation and for the World that extends beyond the Presidency of the primary candidate and the borders of the nation…
…to provide a vision that compliments and extends the vision of the standing President…
…to bring an inspired talent that can assist the nation and the world to make the transition between the old and the new way of conducting business at home and around the world…
…to bring honesty and integrity again to the Office of the Vice Presidency…
…to introduce ‘brave new steps’ to prepare the nation and the world for the days ahead
…expecting and understanding that the future cannot be expected to get easier, but to get worse
…and having the conviction that unless the days of that suffering be lessened, no human being will be left unaffected on earth. ...to understand that the times ahead are going to get really hard for everyone.

A Good Vice President should be prepared to assist the President on many levels, even if his/her council is used only to provide momentary inspiration or insight into certain matters.

The Vice President's political stance with regards to the responsibility of his office should be ‘preemptive’ and heavily focused on disaster relief and preparedness for the Nation against catastrophic events.

A Vice President, as well as sitting the Senate, should have a cabinet or council of his own personal advisors that are in his trust, separate from the Office of the President. This would be the Vice President’s ‘Inner Circle’, ready to take charge in event anything happened to the Office of the President and the President’s cabinet.

A NEW (limited) UN PRESENCE IN THE UNITED STATES

A vision of a Vice President who is willing to work with and help re-engineer the purpose and structure of the United Nations…

In the future, it is recommended to have a smaller contingent of the UN based in New York City (NYC), which would also help the Nation secure its borders.

Also, the formation of new ‘UN Congresses’ set up overseas in various parts of the world within the regions they serve. These would help to ‘democratize’ the world, according to the values and cultures served within those regions. They would also assist the world toward self rule, self sufficiency, self-determination and autonomy…yet, all bonded together in a global fashion by a common UN Charter.

Also envisioned is a new UN Charter drawn up and reengineered to accommodate the formation of the new regional Congresses with the sole purpose of accommodating the differences amongst the societies, cultures, religions and peoples of the world through guided reason, inspired by the basic universal need and quest for peace and prosperity for all and by all and in favor of all, administered without partiality or discrimination of any kind based on race, color, creed, national origin, or upon the political or economic status of a few individuals.

The Congresses would continue to exist as the primary forum to settle international differences as the UN Assembly does today, and to make and keep the peace. I also envision the international court at the Hague moved to the UN with regional courts set up and established inside each of the UN regional congresses around the world, with justice for ‘crimes against humanity’, administered ‘locally’.

What eventually should be the goal for the UN in NYC is a greatly reduced presence; to a mere ‘Global Security Council’ made up of Security Council delegates from the various UN Congresses around the world.

The Secretary General’s Office would become a ‘roving office’, which would better keep the Secretary General on the ground and in touch with the world.

Each Congress would be expected to maintain and fund its own UN Security Force and be first to respond to its own problems, borrowing and being assisted from other regional Congresses, as needed.

WATER

With global warming will come a rise of water in the sea. This will cause flooding in certain areas of the world.

New technologies need to be advanced worldwide to extract potable water from the oceans like the Arabs are currently doing. This would help to offset one of the negative effects of global warming: flooding.

In particular, there will be a future shortage of fresh water in North America. It is recommended that the Office of the Vice President be put in charge of a project to build a pipeline from Alaska and the Northwest Territories to the ‘Lower 48’ to deliver water from the Arctic to distribute to the States and Provinces that will need it.

ALTERNATE ENERGY AND FUELS

Also recommended is that the Office of the Vice President be put in charge of alternate energy and fuel development, as well as be responsible for the task of building and promoting infrastructure and training facilities for the personnel needed to construct, manage and maintain those new technologies and infrastructures…

…To put this on a political fast track to eliminate as-soon-as-possible, America’s dependence on foreign fuel…

…To initiate an overt effort to build a gas pipeline from Alaska, through Canada, to the Lower ‘48’.


The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), the U.S. Department of Public Health and Human Services and the Department of Interior (the BIA)…

…To be placed directly under the Office of the Vice President, to be included in his cabinet.


'Now, who says the Vice President has nothing to do?'

by James Carder
An Oregon Democrat for John McCain