Haitian Elections

We’ve not heard from our people on the ground in Haiti, but new reports have yesterday’s national elections as "satisfactory." For Haiti, that’s excellent.

In a similar story I was listening to NPR in the car yesterday when a senator was talking about his failed 1988 run for President of the United States. When they asked him how he handled his failuure their and his upcoming running on the Republican ticket he said, "You have to keep it all in context. In most countries if you are defeated in an election you are likely to get killed, in the US your party gives you a pension." Good point.