Yushchenko’s “leadership” role and membership of Our Ukraine appears to be at odds with Ukraine’s constitution and long standing principles associated with a head of state.

A Head of State should be a statesman not a politician.

Yushchenko fails to understand this important distinction between Stateman and Politican let alone the role of a President.

The Presidential system has failed Ukraine.

Yushchenko has failed Ukraine.

In all respects he has failed the Ukrainian people and its comes as little surprise that he will not be re-elected to a second term of office. With less then 4% support he will not make it to the second round of voting.

If anything Yushchenko and his party should be considering their support for alternative candidates. Someone who has respect of the majority of Ukraine. Someone who truly values democracy and rule of law. Someone who will not betray or breach their trust. Someone who can reach out and unit the country, Someone who can represent all of Ukraine.

All Yushchenko has done is divide Ukraine and in the process lose the trust of those who elected him.

Ukraine’s Constitution Article 103 states…

The President of Ukraine shall not have another representative mandate, hold office in bodies of state power or in associations of citizens, and also perform any other paid or entrepreneurial activity, or be a member of an administrative body or board of supervisors of an enterprise that is aimed at making profit.

The people in Ukraine have learned to get along without, and DESPITE, the government, which still consists of a bunch of oligarchs trying to steal everything in sight, either themselves, like Akhmetov, or through frontmen, like Yanukovych’s son, who, disturbingly and amazingly, is a member of Parliament.

There is no way to describe it other than as you have – you can’t make this SHIT up.

People in Texas used to say – “hide your women and children and booze – the legislators are in town.” And Texas, by law, has only a very limited period of legislative sessions – to keep the legislators from doing too much harm.

In Ukraine, which needs to transform itself from a sovok remnant into a democracry, to make systemic changes, the Parliament and the government are actually doing harm.

Yushchenko’s behavior is nothing short of bizarre – it’s not intentional, it’s sheer incompetence, with reliance on a thug – Baloha – to boot.

Not only that, he was trying to buddy up to the Party of Regions and Akhmetov, which has no interest whatsoever in reform or democracy.

Ronald Reagan got around Congress by going directly to the people – and it worked. Yushchenko had the majority of the people in the palm of his hands to start out, and if he had stuck with the PEOPLE, instead of trying to kiss Akhmetov’s ass, had he stuck to what he promised, he would have had been successful.

Yushchenko seems to be following a motto that says: “when in doubt, do nothing.”

If he had any cojones whatsoever, if he had the principles that he espoused during the Orange Revolution, for the sake of the country, he would re-form the Orange Coalition.

Or he should explain clearly and coherently – why not.

But in Ukraine, where the “political elite” don’t seem to know how to think, except when it comes to figuring out ways to steal, and where the people/sheeple can’t seem to figure out what to do about it except vote for the same old thugs – that may be asking too much.