2008 election checklist

1. Which candidates are most likely to take us into their
confidence for inventing a new future together and learning
to live in that future, possibly for 100,000s of years?
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2. Which candidates will best help us generate overlapping
consensus where possible and then help us cope with irreconcilable differences?
3. Which candidates will best demonstrate a turn of mind
toward evidence-based diagnoses and proposed treatments for
our major problems?
4. Which candidates will best show a sense of timing and give
clearer reasons for their proposals as they reflect what we know about ourselves, our values and our evidence?
5. Which candidates will best candidly deconstruct their
proposals and their rationales and then reconstruct them with
us, as envisaged by the checks and balances of three branches?
6. Which candidates will take a mix of positons most alligned
with our allies' and our own considered positions, beginning with the liberal-conservative movements and their parties?