Comments on: Yes, (West) Virginia …

By: William Bowe

William Bowe — Mon, 19 May 2008 06:54:59 +0000

New thread up.

By: Kirribilli Removals

Kirribilli Removals — Mon, 19 May 2008 06:54:23 +0000

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Catrina

It’s Oregon. They do not have black people there, unless they are white ones! LOL

By: HarryH

HarryH — Mon, 19 May 2008 06:53:04 +0000

Yo Ho Ho 1711

The Repugs winner take all system got McCain the nomination.

It was a 4 way race for the nomination. McCain,Huckabee,Romney and Paul.

McCains kept winning states with between 30 and 35% of the vote. But he got all the delegates.

There is a large part of the Republican vote that despises John McCain.

By: Kirribilli Removals

Kirribilli Removals — Mon, 19 May 2008 06:52:38 +0000

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Dio, good old Osama would make a great ally for GWB eh? They both hate Iran! LOL

Funny, but if the US wasn’t so pig-headed and gullible for the Likud party, they could have a much more balanced role in the ME.

But no, the Idiot goes to the Knesset and says tacky things for home consumption and infuriates the Arabs by never once acknowledging the ‘final solution’ in his own eye.

(By the way, since my re-birthed computer I’ve been using Firefox mostly but hadn’t got around to disabling those pesky animated flash pages. That link was so annoying it drove me to search for a FF flash blocker:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/433

…it’s a whizz banger! It leaves the Flash symbol on the page if you want to click it, otherwise it will not load the animated crap that is otherwise, so freakin’ annoying!)

By: Ferny Grover

Ferny Grover — Mon, 19 May 2008 06:50:52 +0000

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Still fighting off the dark side KR!
Mental note – use ‘Bin Laden’ instead of Osama!

By: Catrina

Catrina — Mon, 19 May 2008 06:43:01 +0000

Something interesting about CNN’s coverage of the Portland 75,000 – apparently not a single shot of the crowd and the only reported numbers from CNN was a comment ‘a crowd of thousands’.

By: Kirribilli Removals

Kirribilli Removals — Mon, 19 May 2008 06:38:58 +0000

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Ferny Grover

RFLOL!

You’ve gone over to the dark side Ferny! LOL

It’s so annoying, I’ve done it myself, it’s those bloody wingnuts pumping out the Obama/Osama nonsense, but like a lousy pop tune, you just can’t the stupid thing out of your head.

By: Catrina

Catrina — Mon, 19 May 2008 06:21:52 +0000

Just looking at some of the pictures of Obama 75,000 crowd – white faces everywhere, good hard working white American men and women. Kind of pushes the race/gender question off the table at least for one sunny Sunday afternoon.

By: Noocat

Noocat — Mon, 19 May 2008 06:16:39 +0000

Yo ho ho.

It’s not that nobody likes McCain, but rather, not enough. I imagine the more moderate Republicans like him, but it would be interesting to get some clearer data on this.

What was telling was the number of people voting for Huckabee in Republican primaries even after McCain had well and truly secured the nomination. Clearly a lot of people, despite knowing McCain had it in the bag, still felt motivated to show up to a polling booth and give their support to Huckabee (or Ron Paul, in some cases).

By: Noocat

Noocat — Mon, 19 May 2008 06:13:07 +0000

FG, I don’t know if I buy that line. Sure, the “Black” thing might be an issue for some, mainly the oldies, but any lack of turnout on their behalf will probably be compensated by a greater turnout by the young.

Besides, Obama doesn’t confirm any of the stereotypes… I think people are overestimating how much his skin colour will be a problem. The more Obama is able to show who he really is and what he stands for, I think a lot of senior citizens and rural White voters will become less insecure.

Plus – with a recession, Iraq, and a general impression that Bush and the Republicans have take Americans on a fool’s errand, I think the need for change, completely epitomised by a vote for Obama, will be a greater force.