[Rick Lee]

Livi, I think the Loya Jirga system in Afghanistan is probably more truly democratic per se than our system. But we're a much larger country with far more big cities or population centers. The electoral college, as badly as it failed in 2000 and one or two other times, was a pretty ingenius idea. If I were POTUS, I'd probably tone down the rhetoric about spreading democracy or about how great our system is. Our system has probably produced the longest period of peaceful power transfers between greatly differing leaders in the world. But it only works here and should not be imposed anywhere else. Plenty of other countries, even far less democratic, seem to do just fine with their systems. And besides, when you see how cynical and screwed up our political culture here on the ground in the U.S., I don't think it's so great.