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jeancolmar - you are absolutely right. McCain comes across as a fair man - albeit a politician - and he's to be commended for his defence of Obama's character against an angry mob of ignorant fools in Minnesota.
The fact that ignorant Americans use the term "Arab" as a term of abuse is hugely illustrative in itself. However, the problem is that McCain is effectively fighting fires that Palin and his own campaigners have started.
Just quit, John - I'd respect you for that.
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err....the problem is that the Government themselves share a major part of the blame for allowing the banks to get into this mess. Gordon Brown, who was happy to allow himself to be billed as a miracle chancellor who had finally brought and end to boom and bust, encouraged the feel-good credit binge by refusing to rein it in or to more carefully regulate financial activity. The end result is a deep recession, soaring bankrupcies and repossessions and further destruction of British jobs.
The bale out is probably one of the better decisions that he has made, because it is far beyond the point of "bailing out fat cat bankers" (as socialists seem to like parroting, baselessly) and more about bailing out the economy as a whole. Refusing to act and letting banks go bust would do far more damage than the big hit that the taxpayer is going to take through this plan.
In the end, individuals are also responsible because they are the ones who committed to borrowing the easy credit that in many cases they were unlikely to be able to repay. The "buy-now-pay-later" society is now getting into the payback stage and house prices aren't going to prop up consumer spending any longer.
A "traditional" Labour PM would arguably have wrecked the economy by state intervention more quickly than Gordon Brown has, but by letting the whole credit party go on so long (and by hiding the government's own huge PFI borrowings), the damage GB has done is probably greater.
FnC
PS - permit me to refer to this e-mail every time I get labelled a socialist by right wing republican supporters who have zero understanding of what a socialist is.
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BBLeo - what's "lucky" about this guy being murdered? Not much, I'd say...
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Helter Skelter - please, never EVER stop posting. Your characature of a crazy right-winger cheers me up on the saddest and dullest days.
The red-under-the-bed paranoia, the unquestioning support for cartoon character nuts like Sarah Palin and your annoyance at the "leftist media" in the US (!!!) are collectively hilarious to anyone with adult notions of politics. Brilliant.
Posted in: Palin defends terrorist comment against Obama
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The simple fact is that Palin has already repeated deliberate lies about Obama - the "94 tax increases" lie, for example - and so why should anyone take her seriously now. The woman's a joke
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Sarge - errr....perhaps because you said that you were ("lol")? But I suppose after cheering 300 billion being flushed down the toilet as you failed to control Iraq and promoted Al Qaeda terrorism, what's another 700 billion (borrowed from China and Japan, because you are effectively bankrupt as a nation) to try and prevent a depression. Not much I guess...
Funny how you are so vehement in your support for the people who made - and who support - these failed policies though. Especially as you have the choice of something different.
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He gonna be out of date OJ when he finally gets out of jail for this. "Good" is the word that springs to mind. He deserves every day of whatever sentence he gets
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Sarge - not sure why you're laughing out loud about the unfortunate need for your tax dollars (and those of your kids and grandchildren) to be thrown at an enormous financial problem which could have been avoided by the current US government. If it was my taxes and my government, I wouldn't be, I'd be calling for resignations.
Palin is plainly desperate - to be talking about Obama having ONCE met a "shady character" about 13 years ago - hardly a damning indictment, is it? If that's the worst the Republicans can invent and exaggerate, I'd have to wonder how tough it's likely to get for him.
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Sarge - not "delusional" (thanks), clear sighted, more like.
The existence of Al Qaeda in Iraq is completely a result of Bush's foreign policy. All of the thousands of deaths that they have caused (probably many, many more than died on 9/11) are therefore also direct consequences of US policy, not to mention the enormous civilian death toll as a consequence of US military action. Add to this the total blundering of US policy towards Pakistan, which is becoming ever more dangerously destabilised by the day, and its unequivocal support for Israel which itself commits terrorist acts (hundreds dead in Lebanon?) and encourages terrorist acts against itself, and you have a pretty damning case in support of my assertion.
People like McCain and Palin who support this failed policy, which has encouraged terrorism, do not deserve to be elected.
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stanoue - "Japanese ex-pats" in Tokyo? Eh?
Posted in: Bar Flower: My Decadently Destructive Days And Nights As A Tokyo Hostess
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"right minded moral folk" - what, the same "folk" who twice voted in the worst president America's ever had?
I don't understand support for the mentally broken war vet and this screaming harpie who wants Alaska to be independent from the USA....
Whoever wins, it's a poisoned chalice for sure, but take a lesson from the people who know - McCain/Palin is NOT the answer. Let poor old John retire and get some therapy, leave this job to a young, vital and intelligent man - Barack Obama.
Posted in: Biden, Palin spar over Iraq, economy in debate
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Palin's party has done more to encourage terrorism than any other in the history of the USA...
...so I don't think anyone's likely to take her very seriously
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20 episodes shelved just because the guy was smoking some pot in private in his spare time?
What an overreaction.
Posted in: TBS pulls drama after actor Taishu Kase arrested over drug use
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Dick, some of us have to work! I didn't see the debate but I didn't need to. If you think Palin has the experience and knowledge to be VP, you might as well get anyone to do it.
It sounds very much as though Biden did at least attempt to answer the questions. Plainly Palin didn't. If she's such a great communicator, why did she need a script and why has she had 4 direct questions from the press since her nomination? The reason for such evasiveness is plainly obvious - she is likely to shoot herself in the foot at any stage
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MrDickMorris - are you really calling Rhodes Scholar Bill Clinton "dumb" after 8 years of Bush, who can scarcely string a coherent sentence together, not to mention imposed some of the dumbest policies ever?
Sorry - I took you seriously there for a minute....very funny!
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tkoind2 - not to mention the fact that she's been too busy giving birth to her brood of Christian soldiers to get any further than Canada and Mexico on her travels. Ignorant is probably not too strong a word.
For goodness' sake, America! How big a hint do you need that this woman is a loser and that John McCain is even more so for having chosen her?
At the very least, you can't say that Obama-Biden actually set out to insult your intelligence
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I sometimes think gaijin girls become hostesses only so that they can write memoirs about something that English readers are expected to find "exotic" and "enigmatic". Although I think it's a valid entertainment industry job, based on meeting plenty of hostesses off duty, I'd say it ranks up there with shop assistant as one of the dullest and least fulfilling types of employment anyone could find.
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Sushi: "A bad performance by Palain could derail mccain's campaign."
I think PICKING Palin de-railed McCain's campaign already. The woman simply isn't fit to be a stand-in president of the U.S., no way. I think that in all honesty Republicans already know this.
As they say, though, people expect so little of Mrs "four-questions-from-the-press-so-far" that not tripping up will be a sort of victory for her.
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"Kano says manners make a woman a more attractive person than physical features."
If that's what she really thinks, why has she & her 'sister' been lining the pockets of plastic surgeons for years?
Posted in: Manners more attractive than boobs, says Mika Kano
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The best response I heard to the question "what do you fear the most?" was "kryptonite."
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