Let’s all drop our talking points and positions for a moment.

Is this woman in any way qualified to be the president when the oldest president EVER would be taking office…

The choice was silly and pandering.

I am not sold on voting for Obama… I’ll vote Nader (or the Hemp Lady if she is still around)… I am not a party guy.

I am however an engaged spectator, and from my perspective this was a completely shit choice. She is a small time politics wanna-be nazi and she reeks of cronyism.

“I can speak for the rest of the world.”

No, no you cannot.

“I didn’t insult any Christian woman. Only the ones who can’t keep their legs closed.”

You sir, are a douche. If only you lived in this country and could see how American women take to cowardly shits like you insulting their honor and their families.

“Sarah Palin’s only draw card is her ability to breed like a rabbit”

5 children and she breeds like a rabbit? You truly are from Europe!

“Look in the mirror and ask yourself, do I really want to deny minorities civil-rights ……… while I reverse over latinos, blacks, gays and poor people who were screwed before they were even born, by my kind. Ask yourself if you can really justify all the other unmentionables and KKK inherited tendances you Republicans secretly conspire to hide under the guise of your bible thumping, speaking in tounges b.s. When you secretly screwing the next-door nieghbours wife…keeping those who are not exactly like you in their place, forever doomed to live in your classed, fuedal system with levels of citizenship”

You Europeans need to learn American history or keep your mouths shut. Guess which option I would prefer.

“Clearly you are not a minority! So why would you care about their issues anyway.”

Well, a long time ago there was this Jesus character……

“all have robust social programs like healthcare ….. Because people have fought and died for these things to make them rights.”

When exactly was that?

“I mean considering you live in the nation with one of the highest tax rate in the world”

No…..

“You see in France I would get 6 months paid leave off work, a nanny to do my ironing, clean my house maybe even a bit of an allowance so I can live and go recover and holiday in Italy”

And that is why what percentage of French youth is unemployed?

“Because you’ll finally be first world again!”

Who has us beat right now?

“America is an idea. Not a place.”

You are a moron. Free-market Constitutional Democracy is an idea. America is very much a place.

Jason330 –

“Tom S you are a real gung-ho hero type.”

No, I’m not.

Von Cracker –

“Tom S equates military might with dick size”

No, but it is a clear measure of our technological and economic superiority.

2 of those three will give Obama the win, maybe even 1.

All Palin does is bring the PUMA veriosn of religious-wingnuts back into the fold.

Actually, the only ones energized are the Far Right, Pro-Life crowd.

Actually, I am quite happy with the choice, and am more-or-less moderate-right, and definitely pro-choice. Hell, I have wanted Palin to be the VP pick ever since her name got thrown into the hat. But, then, stereotypes are meant to be broken…

1. She’s only 44… She’s not going to make McCain look any younger when they stand on a stage together. Not only does it make him look older, he makes her look even younger (reinforcing her inexperience).

2. Absolutely ZERO experience, thus making McCain’s age a relevant and legitimate topic for debate.

3. As you said, her pick is patronizing and pandering. People get turned off when political strategy is at odds with good governance.

4. Assuming that the pick is aimed at begrudged Clinton supporters, why on earth would he think that these LIBERAL women would discard their beliefs about women’s reproductive rights simply to support Palin just because she sits to pee.

5. The main job of a VP is to hurl attacks against the opposition party’s nominees. On what grounds does she attack their positions on foreign policy, environmental policy, or economic policy. Running the country is a far cry from running a village full of Eskimos.

6. McCain doesn’t even know her. Americans are likely to see his choice as reflective of a serious lack of judgment and a lack of regard for the serious threats that America faces.

7. Alaska isn’t in a region. He isn’t appeasing the South by picking someone from below the 36 parallel. He isn’t appeasing the West by picking someone from California or Texas or New Mexico. For Christ’s sake, Alaska only has 4 electoral votes!

8. She has a newborn with DS. Given her total lack of experience and familiarity with the American public, she is going to have to dedicate some SERIOUS time to these issues just to get through the campaign, let alone to help govern the country. Like it or not, it’s likely that the American public will see her child as a huge liability.

9. It’s hard for McCain to call Obama a celebrity once he puts a pin-up on his ticket.

10. It took the press 15 minutes before they pronounced her name correctly. Sure, she’s gotten attention from the press in her pursuit to the Alaskan governorship, but will she be able to hold her own with the Washington press corp? She’s never even been on any of the Sunday political talk shows. The anchors of these shows are used to picking apart political giants and will likely make minced meat out of Palin.

These are the 10 reasons that McCain has seriously screwed himself out of the White House.

Mike you are spot on there with the banning of weapons in the UK, except, the British are actually generally happy with life at the moment, our soaring crime rate means a year on year increase of 50 more serious violent crimes (For you there stateside that means another 10,000) So that works for us, and since nobody is planning a coup d’ etat we view people with weapons as dangerous, you view them as empowered? Yes/No/Yes? Yes! (Columbine…need I say more)

For America this wouldn’t work because if the Republicans win again by rigging the sytem a la 2000, there will actually be a coup d’ etat and the general citizenry will need as many guns as they can get. I have it on good word from the home office that we might help with more guns because we don’t need them.

There is no panic on the Democrat side David, think of it as though the Democrats have been sitting on the toilet, constipated for 8 long years and for the first time we are feeling a bowl movement, we know this is going to be the biggest dump in history. And finally a massive stinking mound of Republican waste is about to be passed. Yes it will be painful and will require us to all stretch a bit. But in the end we’ll walk away relived, wipe our ass with you pride and walk away intact whereas you’ll be in the sewarge plant with all the others of your kind. That energy you’re feeling is really actually the periseltic movement of the large intestine moving you all along to the eventual moment of expulsion. Finally we will have some relief! Obamalax, so strong you only need to take it once

CE, you’ve obviously never seen the films of Zhang Yimou. (He’s the guy who scripted the Olympic opening ceremony after Spielberg dropped out.) It’s funny, because his major films, like Red Sorghum and Raise High the Red Lantern are subtle allegories for the Chinese Communist Party, a la Animal Farm for the Russians. And then there’s Jackie Chan!