Your Favorite/Admired Current World Leader?

[SeveneightyWhoa]

Poll question: Your Favorite/Admired Current World Leader?

If they're not listed, please post your choice. (Sorry, I left Dubya off, for reasons that should be rather clear.)

[cire4]

1. Zapatero for doing the right thing.....

...and abandoning the disaster that is Iraq before anyone else.

I would recommend adding a Far-East name to that list like Chen of Taiwan or Koizumi of Japan.

[SeveneightyWhoa]

3. Hard to do..

..when there's a 10-option maximum. On that note, just for conversation's sake, who would you take off in order to add one of your suggestions?

[cire4]

5. If I had to remove any name from that list,

it would be Castro because at this point in his life, he is not much more than a figurehead. Pretty much all of the Cuban policy is crafted independently of him, so I don't know if he qualifies as a world leader. Also, I fear the thread may turn into an ugly flame war with his presence.

But overall, I think its a sufficient list. 98% of DUers should be able to find their favorite foreign leader on it.

[wli]

2. sadly he's probably not going to make it very long

Not with the US sponsoring periodic coup d'etat attempts against him and the former coup plotters wandering about free.

[Richard Steele]

4. Castro is far from my fave, but I felt he needed a vote.

Lord knows he's a dictator, but 5 years of B*shCabalInc.™
make me notice his GOOD side!

CUBA has more doctors working for folks in other countries
than they have in CUBA!

Sure, they "disappear" their citizens just like WE DO
nowadays...

But Cuba's biggest export is FREE MEDICAL EXPERTISE,
while the USA spends BILLIONS every month to bring
NAPALM and DAISY-CUTTERS to a street near you.

[Poppyseedman]

9. What US citizens have disappeared???

Small correction: Cuba people are not citizens. They are comrades

[SeveneightyWhoa]

6. Amazing that Blair..

..is 2nd place so far! What the hell? I was considering not even putting him on the list due to DU's apparent resentment of his involvement in the Iraq war. Or perhaps he's the #1 freeper choice? ;-)

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

7. ¡Desea Hugo vivo, Fidel, Lula, y Jose!

!Para los pobres del sur y del mundo! ¡Para la revolución! ¡Para la humanidad!

[Lilith Velkor]

8. La revolucion, con o sin Chavez

That's been the slogan of the Bolivarian Circles of late. Just in case, y'know.

[jokerman93]

10. At the moment it's Hugo

At the moment it's Hugo. The man has guts.

[DoBotherMe]

11. Kofi Annan

[durutti]

12. Either Castro or Chavez. n/t