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Posted at 2008-07-09 08:48:13.046. Permalink.

President Kennedy's great inaugural address in 1961 ended with the ringing cry," Ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country." UnitedFuture draws a lot of its political inspiration from that statement. We are not a party that seeks to pander to selfishness or vested interest, by scratching every itch or fuelling every prejudice. We are instead a party that believes our rights and freedoms are balanced by our repsonsibilities to each other; that service and duty are still noble concepts to be promoted; and, that listening to and trusting the people is still the best form of leadership. As we watch the fight between Labour and National become more ferocious, more personal and more bitter, we see their collective irrelevance to New Zealand's future intensify. Replacing one set of prevailing prejudices with another set is not the way to lead a country. UnitedFuture's policies are all about empowering New Zealanders to make their own decisions where they can and to be repsonsible for them... Read the full text of this blog post.

Posted at 2008-07-09 08:48:13.399. Permalink.

JFK was a good President inspite moral bearings being a tad off occasionally, but then everyone, including myself, can be too at times. The turbulent '60s from start to the death of JFK and towards the mid '70s reveals good and bad leadership with events like the Cuban Missile debacle, Vietnam and Communism pounding heavily about the globe. Now in the 21st century New Zealand voters may get the chance of saying a yes vote for parties that care enough to be mature adults and provide innovation in policy-making and decision-making. Neither these have proven mature lately with Nats and Labs acting like preschoolers fighting in the preschool sandpit. As a voter, party rep I am disgusted at the time waste in the House.

I have long envisioned and spoken out loud the Nats and Labs parties are dying a slow and cruel death. Their party politics have not been that innovative. The best of the bunch (and you are allowed to prove me wrong) with the likes of Phil Goff, can easily be transferred to another party. Such good leaders like Phil can be redeemed out of the coffin of what has been mainstream political stages since World War II or even earlier.

When I left High School, I voted National. Then Labour since 1996. Now I am voting UnitedFuture because they have good leaders who want balance and concern about the real issues and actually do something about professionally and with enough time to ask voters to help debate-not rush through to desert time after the main meal, those concerns.

There is enough new breed of political leadership coming through and that's a good sign as it shows that the National, Labour leaders credibilty is definitely dying a slow and cruel death.

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