Advice To Hillary

Run Early

Spring 2007 is the time to launch. Any later is too late. January is fine. February is fine. March is fine. April is getting late.

Any time in 2006 is too early. Nancy Pelosi will deserve the time to celebrate. Go on another listening tour before you announce. Get "permission" from your constituents in New York. They will be better off with you as president than as Senator.

Go on a nationwide listening tour.

Nancy Pelosi, Speaker

Campaign Slogan: This Is A New Century

It is the American dream, stupid sounds too much like 1992. Let's try something new. This should also appeal to the policy wonk in you. There is a need for a rethink on education, a rethink on health, a rethink on most everything. Let there be a flood of new ideas.

Three Pillars, Draft 2

Don't Shake Too Many Hands, Save That For 2012

Some lefty looney described Secretary of State Colin Powell early in his term as a "house slave," and Powell said the critic was referring to "another era." JFK was the first non-WASP president, but that was another era. I don't think the first woman president needs to worry about her physical safety along the same lines.

But your style is not Bill Clinton's. Don't change. Your style works. Your style is different. Your style is yours. Don't shake too many hands. There are other ways of connecting. The best way is delivering on the promises.

Give the country four years to adjust on the first woman president thing. Then shake as many hands as you might want during reelection.

A Different Kind Of Campaign: A Scientific Campaign

Yours Is Not A Gender Campaign

The idea is to best harvest votes. Gender is important. But it can not be allowed to overshadow all other concerns. Gender and other social issues need to take their rightful space. That also applies to gay rights. If the social issues drown out the mainstream economic issues, the progressives lose and the progressive causes get hurt.

If I am fiercely progressive, it is for social reasons. Don't get me wrong. But making all the right noise is less important than getting hold of the levers of power to get things done, also on social issues.

Even if gender is an issue, your best contribution will be to win. So don't let gender policy drown out the rest of your message. Hillary Clinton as president can have only so much positive gender impact on the system. But that impact can be much greater if women get organized at the grassroots. The masses of women will have to take responsibility and respond.

Strong On Defense Is A Plus

Can't win without it. War On Terror. Long War. Whatever you call it, it is the same magnitude as the Cold War. And it will only conclude after every country in the Arab world is turned into a democracy. There has to be a progressive way to spread democracy that competes with the wasteful, ineffective neocon way.

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The military option can not be ruled out, but it has to be minimized as much as possible, and when it is used, it has to be used smart. You go in lean and thin, you go in smart. You use human intel to penetrate their organizations.

Education, Health, And The Information Age

There is a need for a fundamental rethink here. The country needs help, needs leadership that will take it to the Information Age. The Information Age beckons. That is good news.

You are looking at an era of a billion college graduates on the planet. You are talking free, online, ad-supported textbooks.

Health care reform is about introducing market forces into the sector. Prices would go down like for computers if the health care sector were being driven by market forces. You instead have oligopolies, these bizarre matrix of niche monopolies, ossified corporate bureaucracies.

Soviet Health Care In America

You were right in 1993 on health care. Now the rest of them will need to catch up with you. Only this time I urge you to keep the debate open, public at all stages. Invite in the opponents. Let them make their case publicly. Invite in the people. And ultimately take the tough decisions.

The Information Age asks for lifelong education and universal health. Because the Information Age puts the onus on human capital.

Dot Com Boom Part 2

I was part of part 1 in a small way. I still can smell the fever. I call it progressive market zeal. Progressives are not only pro choice, and anti racism and for the environment, and all that, progressives also are the ones who dream up the companies of tomorrow, create the jobs of tomorrow.

Stay Pragmatic On Gender And Race

Delegate. Let the spectrum gurus work these two big social issues.

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Bill Clinton Is An Asset, That Guy Is Elvis, Pele, What Have You

Al Gore made the mistake of not using Bill Clinton in 2000. Don't repeat. And he does not always have to be in the foreground, although he is always eager to be unleashed on crowds.

Noone can give you better advice. And you know it. He is your guy for all twists and turns. He is the ultimate political animal.

Know On Day One, You Will Win

Rather McCain than some rabid right winger. I respect McCain. He deserves an honorable defeat.

But have the confidence. Exude the confidence.

Obama Is Not Too Young, He Is Not Too Black, He Is Not Too Senatey

I recommend him for running mate. He is half white. He is whip smart. He has your kind of charisma.

You represent the Mid West, the South, the North East. He represents Hawaii, the Mid West, and Kenya. And Left Coast is a piece of cake. You are white, you are a woman. He is half white, half black, he is a man. The arithmetic looks great to me.

He is not baggage material. He is presidential material. That is the number one thing you want to look for in a running mate.

And Mark Warner would make into a great Education Secretary. He has done some good work with the schools in Virginia.

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Obama Votes Nay
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It Is Still The Economy, Stupid

People are going to want to know, how will you help them make more money. And that is only fair of them to do. This is extra true for people in the income brackets most likely to vote for you.

The 1992 people can come in handy.

This Is Not 1992

Get a new team. Get your own team. Keep most of the 1992 bunch in the background. They pulled a classic win in 1992, one for the textbooks, and you were part of it, a big part, but this is time for a fresh start, a fresh team.

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Hillary In Person
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Race, NYC, Future, Globalization, Internet, Glass, Wealth Creation, Power Creation

Race

The race thing comes in many flavors. There is the personal space. And there is the public space. When I talk up race in a political way, my concern is the public space. Corporations qualify. Political offices qualify. If Blacks and Latinos and Asians are 25% of the country, they should be 25% of the composition all the way to the top, up the political space, up the corporate space. Anything else is problematic.

Considering most of the wealth is created in the private sector, most of the jobs are, I am going to take the productivity angle. It is so obvious to me that a corporate structure devoid of glass walls and ceilings will be more productive and will beat the competition, perhaps there have to be entrepreneurial efforts to that effect. Entrepreneurs should see market opportunity in the social justice theme.

So a person's performance gets measured with a whole bunch of numbers. There are matrices involved. My fascination with the IC vision is partly to do with this suggestion. Perhaps I can create a corporate entity that looks like the globe.

That entrepreneurship also applies to the political space. People who can't vote are virgin markets. You work to get them to be able to vote, and that is so many more votes for your camp. And beyond that is for the political entrepreneurs to come up with new permutations and combinations. You harvest votes, and in the process people who vote for you end up more empowered than they were before. They give you votes, you give them power.

Nothing personal, strictly business.

NYC

This city is special. The idea of earning voting rights for the 40,000 Nepalis in the city is appealing. The first goal has to be specific, and achievable, but that first goal has to be a small part of a broader vision. The whole idea of citizenship and voting rights has to be redone in this era of globalization. America's cultural diversity is what will keep it number one. It is time the country stopped acting like it were ashamed of its number one strength.

I have also been sending the message to my crowd that we should use new media and self generated rich, multimedia content on the web to possibly take the lead. You don't have to be a numerically big crowd to take the lead. You just have to offer quality leadership. The message transmits itself at lightning speed if it has oomph.

Politics, Business, Academia, Media

Fish from the Hudson can end up in the East River because the two are really one body of water. I feel the same way about my ongoing interests in these various fields. Each feeds on the other. And there are times when you focus on one like a laser beam. The rest are put on hold temporarily. Blogging makes that possible. You are not even on hold. The latest of what you have to say on a particular topic is still there for anyone to access, fresh to the first time consumers.

So when you do political work on voting rights for the Nepalis in the city, that is also market research for the future buyers of the IC machine. It is definitely work towards the Nepali Convention 2007 that is a business project. (April Convention Venue Options 1, April Convention Market Research 1)

21st Century

This has to feel like a departure. I keep myself sharp on race and gender the best I can because that is one of the best ways to prepare for group dynamics in a corporate setting also. Can you see the details? The more details you can see, better positioned you are to beat the competition. Can you appreciate the complexity, can you appreciate the multi-dimensional realities of race and gender? If you can't, you are at a major wealth creation disadvantage.

The Tetris Effect

If there are fewer layers from top to bottom, there are fewer ceilings, glass or not. Globalization and the internet make it possible to design corporate structures that have fewer numbers of layers. If your worker could be anywhere in the world, can come online and work, if your factory could be in Taiwan or Mexico or China or India, if your market is the entire planet, you don't have the option to have a sick heart and be at the top, I guess. Ends up costing you money. You hurt your bank account.

Face Time, Screen Time

There will never perhaps be a substitute for face time. But people who see the two as two different universes with perhaps different laws of physics kind of throw me off balance. I see the two as a continuum.

India, China

For someone like me who came to America when in his 20s, I draw a lot of political sustenance from the muscular economic growths of India and China. I think that is what makes my perspective on race fundamentally different to that of the African Americans. And there is a part of me that tells me even those African Americans will have to face the fact that the economic plight of Africa has a direct relationship to their political status in America, and so they might as well take an active, keen interest.

Flies, Asteroids

People who make petty racists comments will still show up here and now. You ignore, you swat, you move on. They are missing the action. It is perhaps a choice.

Movies

India produces three times as many movies per year as America. So the form of racism I find the most amusing is where it gets suggested that because you are not white, and came from a different country, you perhaps mistake the movies for reality. O-k-a-y.

Like this older white man told an African friend of mine once, here, let me show you how this icecream machine works. The guy felt like he was trying to be nice. He was being racist.

Timeframe Analysis

That is what you do to determine racist words and actions.

Non-Traditional Career

My share.

Thin Air

Wealth is literally created out of thin air. So is power.

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Iraq: Dumb War

"We are spending $8 billion a month in Iraq. That's $2 billion each week, $267 million each day, or $11 million each hour. For what we spend in three weeks, we could make needed improvements in order to properly secure our public transportation systems. For what we spend in five days, we could put radiation detectors in all of our ports. And for two days in Iraq, we could screen all air cargo."
-- Howard Dean

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• You are waging a war at the cost of $100,000 a minute. Over $320 billion gone. Poof.
  
• You have cost 2500 American lives.
• You have cost more than 100,000 Iraqi lives.
  
• You went in saying Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. When it was proven beyond doubt that that was not the case, you invented a few new missions. You fabricated intelligence before the mission, you fabricated the mission statement after the early one went awry on you.
  
• Terrorist organizations are stronger not weaker today. They have continued to strike with an eery regularity, in different parts of the world, including India.
  
• You started on the wrong foot. War is not a weapon of first resort.
  
• You threatened to use nuclear weapons against Iran. That thought should not even cross the mind.
  
• There was miscalculation after miscalculation after miscalculation.
  
• Saddam was accused of costing 100,000 Iraqi lives. Bush did the same thing.
  
• Big Defense is making money. Poor kids are losing lives.
  
• You destroy the infrastructure. That attack costs you big money. The destroyed infrastructure is big money. And then you profess to rebuild some of it through no-bid contracts to your cronie companies that get paid way more than the local market price. Money sense? Harvard MBA?
  
• Now there is talk of civil war. You destroy a state structure in its entirety. And create a vacuum. And the replacement is not to be seen. No wonder.
  
• Do the Iraqis see freedom? Or do they feel occupation?
  
• Why is the Arab street so opposed to the offensive in Lebanon, to the war in Iraq? Are hundreds of millions of Arabs dumb, and primitive and wrong? Or is it just Bush who is so?
• The war has made worse the anti-Arab racism in America. Is that meant as a fodder to the right wing?
  

Spread democracy the progressive way.
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In The News

Sen. Barack Obama Says Iraq Is "A Dumb War" All Headline News sharp criticism of the Bush administration and Congress ..... Iraq is, "A dumb war. We haven't thought it through." .... enemies in Iran and North Korea, along with terrorist groups bent on doing the United States harm, are getting stronger while the U.S. is bogged down in Iraq. ..... chastised Democrats who are always opposed to war, even when force is necessary. In cases like World War II and, more recently, removing the Taliban government of Afghanistan, war can be the only option, with Obama saying, "There are real enemies out there and we have to face them." ..... expressed opposition of eliminating the tax on estates altogether. .... "After $7 million, the family farm is going to be OK. That's my sense," Obama said..... the single most important factor in job creation is education. ..... "A high school education doesn't cut it anymore."
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Bush gives new reason for Iraq war - The Boston Globe President Bush answered growing antiwar protests yesterday with a fresh reason for US troops to continue fighting in Iraq: protection of the country's vast oil fields, which he said would otherwise fall under the control of terrorist extremists. ...... Bush compared his resolve to President Franklin D. Roosevelt's in the 1940s and said America's mission in Iraq is to turn it into a democratic ally just as the United States did with Japan after its 1945 surrender........ The speech was Bush's third in just over a week defending his Iraq policies, as the White House scrambles to counter growing public concern about the war. But the devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina in the Gulf Coast drew attention away ....... the slightly larger protests that Bush now encounters everywhere he goes ..... ''If Zarqawi and [Osama] bin Laden gain control of Iraq, they would create a new training ground for future terrorist attacks," Bush said. ''They'd seize oil fields to fund their ambitions. They could recruit more terrorists by claiming a historic victory over the United States and our coalition."

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