Evo Morales responds to John Kerry: Never Again Will We Be Your Backyard

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107. Sorry the joke was meant as more of a comment on how Carville and his wife were earlier perceived...

And like you said many of us didn't see how that "joke" was a joke on all of us here in the U.S., as well as those in places like Bolivia. I felt that something was wrong with us putting people like that in powerful positions with the Democrats early on, and I think now we're seeing the evidence mount as to how our two party system is really not serving us all due to people like that controlling it and our political process too much.

If you've followed my posts here, you'll see that I've been adamantly wanting the Democratic Party to clean house of the corporatists like Carville, Rahm Emmanuel, etc. And I've even been bugged by Bill Clinton as a part of the corporatist element, who has done some things that compared to the Republican leadership that have been better, but has also done many damaging things that have set us back (with the DLC group he started that recently we discovered was heavily funded by the Koch Brothers). Legislation that he signed in to law like NAFTA/GATT, the telecommunications act, ending welfare program, laws that took down Glass-Stiegel that eventually lead the housing meltdown we have now we are still paying for.

That is why, as the first woman president here to set the path for other women in the future, I want someone who is far more populist in the Evo Morales mould like Elizabeth Warren (as inexperienced as she might be to some), than someone like Hillary Clinton. With Hillary Clinton, I think we'll get a lot of the same regrets that we've gotten with Barack Obama on so many issues, that I hope won't hurt other African American candidates in the future who have more progressive and populist constructive goals than Mr. Obama has tried to take on in his terms in office.

I liked the way the film was done in that it offered you a good inside look in to what Goni's campaign was like, but Ms. Boynton was tactfully careful not to let it be partisan in Goni's favor, and just try to present a slice of history. Now with Evo in power and doing a lot of positive things in Bolivia, like so many newer leaders are in South America now, the way she shot this film makes it very helpful to look more as a historical reference and perhaps what shapes Evo's political perspective now, than something we have to potentially doubt every place as a purely partisan piece.