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Much media attention ha s focused on “style” with the new non-white American White House family. That focus overshadows the substantive issues involved in the American transition to a global world with the 2008 presidential election, which could impact on the next elections, the midterms being just a year and a half away.

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The late night show host David Letterman made a crude joke about a daughter of the former Republican vice-presidential candidate’s daughter. The incident continues to reverberate and bring up questions about political ambitions and sincerity among American conservatives.

The United States elected the industrialized world’s first non-white leader in its 2008 election to lead it forward in a global world. Elements opposing the rule of law and global development have a stake in the traditionally lucrative field of promoting fear and defensiveness, whether through suicide bombings, nuclear threats or warnings about imminent threats. Overcoming those elements was the challenge to the new American administration even beyond the critical global economic crisis.

The first Civil War in the United States ultimately brought about the abolition of slavery. The war itself, however, was actually a battle over secession and the role of the central government in protecting the country’s integrity. Likewise, the new Civil War of the 2008 transition concerns the secession of the country’s financial titans and the need for the government to wrestle them back to the fold to preserve the country’s integrity.