We must apologize, dear reader, for our sluggish editorializing on your behalf of late… That’s because we’ve been two-timing you… We’ve fallen into the embrace of another, blog, a political blog no less…

Much of our free time has gone towards promoting the candidacy of presidential hopeful, Texas Congressman Ron Paul at: http://goronpaul.blogspot.com/

We’re not really even ‘in to’ politics, but Dr. Paul, actually has us excited…

I know, I know, this is a blog about Buenos Aires. What do American politics have to do with anything? Well, as an American living overseas, it has a lot to do with it actually…

The US is powerful and highly influential around the world. Argentines know a lot about the US and American politics… because it affects them… You’ve probably heard that Argentina is anti-American, that’s true in a sense. But they, like most people in the world, understand the difference between the American people, and the US government.

Why don’t they like us? Well, I’m not going to get into the entire history of economic and political relations between the US and Latin America… but it comes down to the fact that they don’t like us pushing them around, manipulating things in the region, and acting with favoratism towards some countries and not others. You can argue till you’re blue in the face about whether we do this or not. But you’d be hard-pressed to deny that we don’t throw our weight around down here…

The fact is that our image as a bastion of democracy and economic prosperity is tainted by our bullying… So called, ‘foreign aid’ is used for political gain… We practice protectionism in agriculture to help American farmers, however the vast majority of those benefiting are in fact large corporations… In the past we have supported oppressive and anti-democratic regimes to advance our own self-interest.

Ron Paul is the only presidential contender who will put a stop to all that… Paul will end all foreign aid. He’ll put a stop to ‘corporate welfare’ and protectionism. He will put an end to our military-adventurism overseas. He will bring our military, currently occuping over 100 countries, home. He will close the thousands of overseas military bases. He’ll protect the US borders instead of the border between Iraq and Jordan…

He is a non-interventionist, not an isolationist… Look at how we trade with Vietnam now, how much better that works than fighting them and losing 50,000+ lives… Trade, not war seems like a good motto to me…

Then, we can stop ignoring Latin America and help them the best way possible which is to trade with them… and not the corporate sponsored, trade organization sort of (NAFTA)trade either, but real ‘free trade’ that brings prices down and increases the quality of goods and services.

By doing this we’ll make a lot more friends than enemies.

There’s a lot more that can be said about all this, but we’ll leave it at that.

Please take a moment to look into Ron Paul and see what he’s about. At his official website: http://www.ronpaul2008.com or my other blog at: http://goronpaul.blogspot.com/

(Also, be sure and check out the videos about him on Youtube.com… There’s a very interesting online grass-roots campaign swirling around the man.)

You might not like his positions on everything, but, he is honest and has real integrity. You can vote for him and not feel like you have to take a shower afterwards… Why take one of the ‘lesser of two (very evil) evils’ when you don’t have to?

Here’s Ron Paul at a recent appearance on Bill Maher’s show…