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# Jeffrey Sachs in '08
- URL: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/18828/
- Published: 2006-12-01T20:12:51.000Z
- Updated: 2019-02-14T22:35:40.000Z
- Author: openDemocracy Supporters
- Tags: #en, #Migrated, #Import 2026-04-09 18:23

On World Aids Day, [a campaign](http://www.sachsforpresident.org/?ref=opendemocracy.net) to get development guru and Columbia University professor Jeffey Sachs to run for the US presidency in 2008\. I think his chances are probably slimmer than even Hillary or Barak Obama. Or even Bono. But ain't it true? The world would be a different place.

If Scotland really does [become an independent republic](../../../globalization-institutions%5Fgovernment/scottish%5Findependence%5F4141.jsp), I think openDemocracy's editor Isabel Hilton would make a great president.