The Many Faces of US Politics...

[Tyrones own]

When can we expect the Mad Hatter and the March Hare?

* See top of the last page * 

[deiseach]

Yep, they all work. You can stop now, Tyrones own

[Tyrones own]

Done

[Hedley Lamarr]

The only God in America.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ia_0nP8V46A

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvs5AKKNiNE&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzsciDbRAVU&feature=related

[DrinkingHarp]

The only God in America.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ia_0nP8V46A

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvs5AKKNiNE&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzsciDbRAVU&feature=related

And in Ireland....................http://www.politics.ie/current-affairs/20190-irish-firms-making-iraq-war-weapon-parts-amnesty.html

[Hedley Lamarr]

How they see us: Is Palin ready to lead the world?

Sarah Palin could not have arisen in any country but the U.S., said Janice Turner in Britain's The Times. It's not just that the Republican vice presidential candidate is a gun-toting moose hunter or an evangelical creationist opposed to abortion, two female types in short supply in Europe. It's her feistiness. "American women such as Mrs. Palin—whatever their politics—exhilarate with their sense of limitless opportunity, their unquestioning can-do." This vim comes partly from their unbridled, not to say unwarranted, self-confidence. "Not overburdened with self-doubt or introspection, they plough on." What a sight to behold!

"But the Sarah Palin Story is not just a show," said Alice Miles, also in The Times. Her breathtaking political incorrectness is certainly entertaining—this is a woman who wants to drill for oil in the parks and kill polar bears. But her utter lack of qualification for high office is not amusing; it's frightening. Does anyone believe that a woman who was mayor of a tiny Alaska town and then governor of that virtually empty state for 20 months is ready to step into the most powerful job on earth? "They call it feminism, but the Republicans have done women a disservice. They have selected a female candidate who is a cartoon," and her candidacy may well end up looking like "a joke."

Palin seems to have been chosen not just for her gender, said Luis Lema in Switzerland's Le Temps, but also for her attack-dog skills. In her prime-time speech during the Republican convention last week, she "didn't elucidate a single policy," either foreign or domestic. Instead, "she aimed her fangs at her rival," hurling insult after insult at Barack Obama and the Democrats. Her main qualification seems to be that she comes from a small town, which supposedly makes her more authentically American than Obama.

How absurd: You can't claim "a higher moral standing for coming from a great big empty on the map," said Heather Mallick in Britain's The Guardian. Canadians like me know Alaska well. Alaska is "our redneck cousin," a "frontier state full of drunks and crazy people." It is the backwoods even by Canadian standards. And Palin knows nothing else. In her whole life as an Alaskan, she visited neighboring Canada "precisely once"—and she got a passport only last year, to go see Alaskan National Guard troops in Kuwait. Does America really need another president who makes a virtue out of utter ignorance of the world?

Of course not, said Thomas Klau in Germany's Financial Times Deutschland. What's truly alarming is that it's not far-fetched to imagine that Palin could end up president—and sooner rather than later. "American presidents are extremely vulnerable to attack," as the JFK assassination and attempted assassinations of Gerald Ford and Ronald Reagan make all too stark. And of course, there is the matter of McCain's advanced age. Yet much of the U.S. media has been obsessively focused on "Palin's family and personality," rather than on the thin credentials of this woman who could be running the free world in a few months. "The nation where this is taking place is the mightiest on earth. But for how much longer?"


Would any of you seriously vote for her?

[muppet]

And of course, there is the matter of McCain's advanced age.[/qoute]

Is this an old article?

Either way this is the country who elected Dubya, it could easily elect Palin. We would be better off if they elected Paul the Octopus.

American politics is often about who they don't want elected rather than who they do, leaving a Dubya type getting in. As Homer Simpon said: "default, the two greatest words in the english language".

[muppet]

http://www.prisonplanet.com/canadian-government-pays-organization-to-troll-political-chat-forums.html

Nah couldn't be true............

[Tyrones own]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100926/ap_on_re_as/as_philippines_us_inverted_flag

Ye honestly couldn't make this stuff up.... fecking embarrassment to the Country much less the world stage.... idiots!

[ardmhachaabu]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100926/ap_on_re_as/as_philippines_us_inverted_flag

Ye honestly couldn't make this stuff up.... fecking embarrassment to the Country much less the world stage.... idiots!

Are you saying Dubya was any better?

[Tyrones own]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100926/ap_on_re_as/as_philippines_us_inverted_flag

Ye honestly couldn't make this stuff up.... fecking embarrassment to the Country much less the world stage.... idiots!

Are you saying Dubya was any better?

No but it's an interesting comparison you bring up 

[ardmhachaabu]

I didn't draw a comparison, I asked you a question.  You drew the comparison, wrongly.  FWIW, I don't think it would be fair to even try to draw comparisons with both men.  Obama has a brain, Dubya doesn't

[Tyrones own]

I didn't draw a comparison, I asked you a question.  You drew the comparison, wrongly.  FWIW, I don't think it would be fair to even try to draw comparisons with both men.  Obama has a brain, Dubya doesn't

If ye didn't make the comparison then why did you feel the need to bring W in to it then Why not comment on the fact that Obama and his inept handlers
accidentally displayed an inverted Philippine flag — which wrongfully signified that the Southeast Asian nation was in a state of war [/u]
...And yet it's .. s t i l l.....  Bush who has no brain 
I suppose if this story included Palin then the Idiocy of it would no doubt be a little more clearer to some of ye!

[ardmhachaabu]

You called them idiots, I reminded you that Dubya was and is a bigger idiot than Obama

Have you got that so far?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100926/ap_on_re_as/as_philippines_us_inverted_flag

Ye honestly couldn't make this stuff up.... fecking embarrassment to the Country much less the world stage.... idiots!

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[Tyrones own]

You called them idiots, I reminded you that Dubya was and is a bigger idiot than Obama

Have you got that so far?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100926/ap_on_re_as/as_philippines_us_inverted_flag

Ye honestly couldn't make this stuff up.... fecking embarrassment to the Country much less the world stage.... idiots!

[/b]

Put it this way; if I didn't get it, I sure as Fcuk wouldn't be asking you of all people for clarity 
Got that?  ...cheeky pup
Ye clearly don't even get the irony of that signature you have there, do ye 
Don't have the balls or the knowledge base for that matter to comment on the content of my link
without scraping that barrel in dragging Bush in to it...a g a i n * yawn*