Removing a candidate
In regard to the presidential election this November, if Joe Biden received the most votes of any president in history during the 2020 election, his Justice Department wouldn’t need to prosecute his current political opponent, Donald Trump, or have him arrested.
But if he didn’t get all those votes in 2020, he would almost certainly have to stop Trump by any means possible, wouldn’t he? Removing the guy from the ballot because he says the election is rigged seems like the worst way to prove to people the election was not rigged.
The last time Democrats tried to remove a candidate from the national ballot was in 1860 when the Southern Democrats refused to put Abraham Lincoln’s name on the ballot and he went on to win anyway. The next year the Civil War started and he won that battle, also.
John Webb
Reubens
Work of the Peace Corps
More than 2,505 Peace Corps volunteers have served in Ukraine since the program was established in 1992. As of June 1, 2012, about 536 volunteers had served in Ukraine.
Volunteers work in the areas of education, economic development, and youth development (Source: Peace Corps/Ukraine website).
I will vet this, but think it is important for our population to recognize that the U.S. Peace Corps, which significantly supplies some of the soft-power of the U.S. State Department, had the largest program in Ukraine than any other country. The funding to support this enormous effort was very definitely the U.S. government’s attempt (under several administrations) to lure a huge chunk of the former Soviet Union toward the West and Western systems.
I served there from 2008-10. I have many friends there. The country is essentially a melting pot of cultures, over centuries, a vibrant, wonderful people. They want the opportunity for self-determination, opportunity and security.
We used all those Peace Corps years and all that expense and experience to have Ukrainians lean West, and now we don’t want to support them? Vladimir Putin is salivating over our dysfunction and waiting out our failure to carry through when it counts.
L.M. Davison
Moscow
