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I'm surprised that she didn't quit earlier. After Sydney, her career took a rapid downward turn and competitively, she's virtually done nothing since. She was obviously a talented athlete, but she's been living on goodwill for a long time and eventually it has to run out.
That said, I hope that she finds happiness in her life and new choice of career. She's earned it
Posted in: Pressure takes its toll on marathon runner Takahashi
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It's a great big mess that Obama now has to deal with - but more of the same 'leadership' was not the answer, and thankfully enough American voters realised this.
Posted in: Can Uncle Sam bounce back?
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A pity Obama couldn't be sworn in immediately and Bush sent off to Crawford, TX with some crayons and a drawing book.
Helter Skelter - well, it's been "God help America" for the past 8 years.... No, I think you have a far MORE patriotic President in Barack Obama. Unlike Dubya, his genuine concern is for the American people, not for big business, the ruling family of Saudi Arabia and the terrorists that they support.
FnC - overjoyed at recent events
Posted in: Bush, Obama to meet on Monday as transition accelerates
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I think the main change will be in style rather than substance. The US will still have an active foreign policy under Obama as POTUS, however I expect him to be more constructive and communicative than Bush. Mind you, who wouldn't be, in comparison?
The man's a natural democrat and he will support democracy, but I suspect he'll also leave well alone where Bush, surrounded by arrogant chickenhawks like Rumsfeldt (how must he be taking this result? ha ha ha) who were happy to throw other people's kids into their profit-making military sausage machine. Hopefully Obama's policy will stop Palin's son from going there - it would be interesting to see whether Sarah would protest about that particular decision, now she's back to obscurity where she rightly belongs.
I am also writing this message because I want the overwhelmingly positive response to Obama's election to be one of the longest threads ever on JT - challenged only perhaps by discussion of the poll entitled "Bush: Worst President Ever?"
Posted in: Obama sweeps to victory, says change has come to America
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ImperiumMundi - don't be a bad loser. Obama may well be good for you, too.
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ImperiumMundi - you really have run out of sensible things to say, haven't you?
Thank goodness the majority of Americans seem to think differently. That's what the rest of the world has been waiting for - an American president they can respect. Perhaps we've got one
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YangYong - you didn't notice the quotation marks around the word "socialism"... It is laughable to anyone outside the USA to think that any American politicians are socialists in any sense apart from a relative one - i.e. by not being quite as rabidly right wing as someone else. And as you say, the irony is that the current discredited bunch of losers have tried, and failed, to take freedom away from the American people.
The true patriots in America have spoken - those who support the common good of their country, not the interests of G W Bush and Saudi Arabia, with their support for imported oil and international terrorism.
Palin to be tried for her crimes in Alaska ? - "You Betcha"
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Didn't help him much, though, did it, Sarge...?
4 years of "socialism" under Obama - enjoy
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Congratulations to the USA for making the right choice of president for the first time in 12 years...
"it was Palin wot lost it"
The prospect of 4 years of watching the righties here bemoaning Obama's policies as "socialism" tickles me pink
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Even if all of the things that you say are true, which I don't believe that they are, so what? America obviously needs a radical change from the disastrous path that it is currently taking, and plainly it's going to get one.
Enjoy
Posted in: McCain criticizes LA Times for protecting Obama by not releasing tape
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Helter Skelter - the voice of reason as ever! "isolated tragic incident"
How many people die in gun crime and accidents on a daily basis in the States ? In the tens of people I believe, so it's not an "isolated tragic accident" at all. There is absolutely NO reason for someone to have an AK-47 assault rifle at home, especially a convicted felon with a drug problem. With a handgun, he'd still have been a danger, but would probably have missed.
Well Quentin Patrick, gun toting moron, off to jail for you for the rest of your life until you die. Bye.
Posted in: S Carolina shooter feared 12-year-old trick-or-treater was robber, police say
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BTW, anyone who is dumb enough to worry about these supposed one-brief-meeting based "friendships" that your new president is supposed to have with "terrorists" is dumb enough to think that Palin would make a good vice president anyway.
Posted in: McCain criticizes LA Times for protecting Obama by not releasing tape
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Imperium - I suspect "Mandarin for Kids" might be more appropriate, given the trillions he has wasted and the terminal decline of America's standing in the world which has been brought about during his presidency.
When people look back in the future, they will regard Clinton's presidency as the high water mark of America's power and Bush's as the point where shortsighted policies, petty vendettas and bending over to Saudi Arabia's wishes accelerated the process of decline into a marginal, second-rate power.
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That's yet another new low from the Republicans - they shouldn't have questioned this, whether she was at death's door or otherwise.
Small-minded, pathetic, divisive, petty, and frankly sad actions by a once honourable party destroyed by the legacy of Bush and his neocon fools - fortunately just about to be swept into the dustbin of history where they belong
Posted in: Obama's grandmother dies as presidential race nears end
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Pathetic - no other word for it. Conservative bloggers invent whatever suits their latest stupid prank or narrow-minded prejudice.
Funny how the same people trying to exploit another extremely tenuous link ignore the fact that Bush himself has authorised funding for the Palestinian state. Surely more significant?
Plus what about giving billions in military assistance to Israel, whose armed forces then use it to kill hundreds of Palestinian and Lebanese civilians, in strikes that are so indscriminate as to be dubbed "terrorism" by many observers.
Enjoy your new "terrorist" president, by the way. Ha ha ha
Posted in: McCain criticizes LA Times for protecting Obama by not releasing tape
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he's probably choosing pop-up picture books for his presidential library, as we speak
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The fact that his grandma died is no reason for people to choose Obama over McCain - who needs another reason, anyway?
Looks like McCain is going to be as successful a presidential candidate as he was a pilot...
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How about a "best blue tarpaulinist" for homeless people?
Honestly, what a ludicrous cheap publicity stunt
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Sarge: "McCain is toast."
Finally - reality bites. Now realise that you and the US are going to be a lot better off in the long run under Obama than you would be voting for more republican failure.
I simply don't think many Americans, faced with ever tougher financial times thanks to Bush's profligacy and negligence, really care that much about the removal Saddam Hussein any more. True patriots care about their own country first, not about defending their Saudi pals against regional threats. But if you see that as a reason to vote for McCain and the Alaskan separatist crazy woman, go for it - it simply illustrates how out of touch you are
Posted in: Obama confident, McCain seeks upset
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JoeBigs - how much better than the bombers would we (or the Indonesian justice system) be if we adopted such barbaric practices? We are supposed to be standing above the criminal acts of terrorists, not stooping down to their level.
Religious fanatics - of any religion - are entitled to believe in their particular fairy story as far as I'm concerned, as long as they don't try to impose it on anyone else, by persuasion or by force.
Yes - these people are the lowest type of scum in my view, too, but we have to prove to the world that their efforts have been futile. Killing them is the opposite of that
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