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Casual Friday: Nazarbaev campaigns

With everything else going on in Kazakhstan right now, the following video is a nice reminder that elections still have to go to the people.  Here is one of Mr. Nazarbaev's election videos in a series called: Don't Change Horses, or perhaps, Don't Change the Horse that has Carried You.  I particularly like this one because it demonstrates Kazakhstan's progress, which is real . . . and because it recalls for me the promise of the American dream, where a schoolboy can be the President of the future–only this time, of course, in Kazakhstan. 

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