Robert Mugabe will continue as President of Zimbabwe until he is 100, governing from a "special wheelchair", his wife has said.
A Labour-led coalition will lack legitimacy in England and, if it is governing from a clear second-place, it might be better to seek a second election than to first walk into power and then into oblivion.
Obama, too, has learned to speak in clichés and orotund deflection about what it's like to be a black President, governing from a house built largely by slaves.
"I'm very comfortable with my credentials when it comes to doing the right thing by the Aboriginal people of Australia," he said, and referred to his commitment to spending one week every year governing from a remote community.
Then Dutch East India Co. merchants right out of a Vermeer painting stole it from the Portuguese, governing from a stadhuis, or town hall, that still looks as stalwart as any on the continent.
The implicit choice facing voters today in both parties is whether the next president should govern from an orthodox ideological position or more in the manner of the postwar presidents who led through bipartisan consensus.
1968 Hubert H. Humphrey Jr. President Obama has governed from a deep commitment to the role of government in fostering growth, forming sensible budget policies that are not dedicated to protecting the powerful, and saving the social safety net to protect the powerless.
"I am proud of the fact that the Labour party has shown that it can govern from a centre-left position and maintain its position in government".
Others feel that a multilateral organization like the UN should have more jurisdiction over the Internet, something which would change the way the Internet is governed from a relative balance of powers among stakeholders to greater government control.
