The gloves are well and truly off!

Posted on October 7, 2008 by Political Politics

When Sarah Palin quoted a newspaper story saying that Barack Obama is ‘palling around with terrorists’, this was a desperate and poorly researched attack on the campaign that races ahead in the polls. McCain and Palin seems to be losing, and they know it. To shift emphasis in the media from the economic crisis that keeps on battering the US they have started what seems like a smear campaign. Smear campaigns have worked well before in US politics, but people who live in glass houses….and so on. The gloves are well and truly off!

Ode to Hillary

Posted on October 6, 2008 by Political Politics

Why didn’t Barack Obama choose Hillary Clinton as his running mate? Was he perhaps concerned that he himself was enough of a controversy for the Democratic campaign? That running for the White House with a woman might not calm the God fearing Americans who wouldn’t dream of voting for a black man with a foreign-sounding name unless he had a middle-aged white man standing next to him? Or was he simply afraid that Hillary Clinton might outshine him? Ode to Hillary

Election Polls by Strength of States!

Posted on October 1, 2008 by Election in the USA

Youcalc.com has just made my life a lot easier.

Just like American football and Baseball you almost have to be born in the US to understand their Electoral Voting system. Like, why does it only take 174277 Wyomingans, to make up 1 electoral vote when it takes 664604 Californians to make up the same?

Well, being a big fan of proportional representation, I still don’t get it, but at least I can use a widget from youcalc.com to keep track of how the presidential race is going. Election Polls by Strength of States!

McCain is Mr. Hypocrite.

Posted on September 30, 2008 by Political Politics

Barack Obama is too young and too inexperienced to run our country, says John McCain. Yes, he is 25 years his senior, but John McCain is 72. The male life expectancy in the US is 75.15 according to the CIA World Factbook (2007). If this turns out to be true for John McCain, he will die during his first term, and we all know what will happen then. His chosen running mate, Sarah Palin, will become president. But Palin is 28 years younger than McCain, and even more inexperienced than Obama. Has John McCain really thought this through? McCain is Mr. Hypocrite.

Debate, debate.

Posted on September 27, 2008 by Political Politics

So yesterday’s Presidential debate in Oxford, Mississippi, went ahead. McCain ended the suspense and broke his promise to skip the scheduled event if no deal was made on the financial rescue plan. As it happened, it was a fairly quiet and non-eventful event. Nothing new came out, there were no surprises and the tone was, for the most part, quite civilized between McCain and Obama. Was it worth watching? Debate, debate.

Multitasking?

Posted on September 25, 2008 by Political Politics

Anyone elected as leader of the free world should be able to concentrate on more than one thing at the time. So why has John McCain announced that he will suspend his campaign and return to Washington D.C to deal with the economy? Is this some desperate attempt to avoid Friday’s debate with Barack Obama (who is leading in the polls)? Is McCain trying to use his ‘I’m soon to be President-elect’ so I should be where the action is? Multitasking?

‘Experience’ is just a cover for age.

Posted on September 24, 2008 by Political Politics

John McCain is 72 years old. If he gets elected, he will be the oldest man ever to be inaugurated as President of the United States. He has numerous diagnosed and treated cancers, but should he survive into a second term he will be pushing 80! Maybe that is why he is running. This is probably the only job he can apply for and hope to get at his advanced age.

Everybody knows that electing a young person does not guarantee that he or she will stay healthy throughout the term, but it is a hell of a lot more likely. ‘Experience’ is just a cover for age.

Joe Biden? Who?

Posted on September 23, 2008 by Political Politics

Maybe John McCain got it right for once. In picking Sarah Palin as his running mate. She is young, pretty with an adorable family and controversial. Not only is she a woman, but she is a pretty though one, too.

Her excellent speech at the Republican convention threw her into the media spotlight, her remarks about Barack Obama and the now infamous lipstick joke being the high points. Joe Biden? Who?

What would the presidential election be without the continuous personal attacks?

Posted on September 21, 2008 by Election in the USA

Personal attacks seem to be an integral part of the democratic process, when a political leader is elected. Dirt is dug up and thrown in all possible directions.

On the one hand, these personal attacks can be helpful for the electors in order to getting to know the intimate details about the candidates and their characters, their past and moral standards as double standards are revealed and every skeleton in the closet is let out. What would the presidential election be without

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