Wow! The Blog is going well!!

I just wanted to comment that it is so awesome hearing about all of your projects. Its interesting getting to know both the successes and the failures of each persons individual and group work.

On another note, I thought I would spur outside discussion not just the stuff we talk about in class. So I was looking on Google News and just typed in Human Rights and a plethora of news stories popped up. This wasn't exactly what I was expecting because I definitely thought there would be much less.

Anyways, I thought this article about Obama visiting Russia was very interesting because most of the time when you hear of Human Rights violations, you think of (well at least I do) nations in Latin America, Asia, Caribbean, ect. but not really Russia.

http://www.reuters.com/article/politicsNews/idUSTRE5675UA20090708

What do you guys think about this? Do you even think the United States has a right to score other nations about human rights when the US will not even ratify the Declaration of Human Rights because they feel it does not apply to them?