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January 10th, 2008, 11:44 AM
Is it just me, or can American presidential races be embarrassing to watch?
On Monday, Hilary Clinton actually cried on TV. There is NO WAY than in more reserved, less emotional Britain, that a politician would cry on TV during an election campaign.
But other things about this campaign irritate Brian Reade....
Race is con trick
Brian Reade
10/01/2008
The Mirror
Is it just me, or can American presidential races be embarrassing to watch?
On Monday, Hilary Clinton actually cried on TV. There is NO WAY than in more reserved, less emotional Britain, that a politician would cry on TV during an election campaign.
But other things about this campaign irritate Brian Reade....
Race is con trick
Brian Reade
10/01/2008
The Mirror
I can never take US presidential primaries seriously for a variety of reasons...
a) They're asking people in Iowa to pick the most powerful leader on Earth (a hillbilly state where 90 per cent of the population call their sister "mom").
b) The frozen-smiled candidates all look like Madame Tussauds dummies. (I once spoke to Hillary Clinton and shivered as the words "imagine staying for an extra couple of pints after the match and turning up to face that" went through my mind).
c) Whenever they take to a podium it is to convince us they are the only person who can truly "change the world" as a mob of hand-picked, overfed, brace-toothed robots holler behind them (why do crowds of Americans often sound like a group of monkeys?).
This time the Democrats are even more annoying than the Republicans because they smugly believe they will win.
Because Hillary Clinton is a woman and Barack Obama is black they're convinced they offer a radical alternative to Bush's macho politics.
Yet who was the calculating brain behind Bush?
The one who helped formulate the neo-Con policy of American world domination through naked aggression, then toured the planet attempting to sell it?
Condoleezza Rice.
Who is both black and female (and someone else I've spoken to who looked like they'd come straight from Dr Who central casting).
America set for a radical, caring, unmacho future if a black man or a woman becomes president?
Tell that to the parents of the next bunch of kids who get slaughtered in a high school because entrenched forces like the gun lobby are the ones who truly run the country.
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January 10th, 2008, 12:59 PM
Being black or a female is just a bonus.
Is the election a joke and a farce like the last two? We'll soon see when it's all said and done and when the winner is put to the test.
It's interesting to say the least to see the level of interesting which is going on who will "Save the Americans from Bush" and how they're trying to relate it to the JFK days.
Then again those didn't end so well.
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I don't think Democrats are expecting to win because they're black or a woman, but for the simple fact that the Republicans just spent close to 8 years showing us what they can do for changing the world.... good job fellas. This time the Democrats are even more annoying than the Republicans because they smugly believe they will win.
Being black or a female is just a bonus.
Is the election a joke and a farce like the last two? We'll soon see when it's all said and done and when the winner is put to the test.
It's interesting to say the least to see the level of interesting which is going on who will "Save the Americans from Bush" and how they're trying to relate it to the JFK days.
Then again those didn't end so well.
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January 10th, 2008, 01:30 PM
I never.....is this guy actually under the impression he is a journalist?
He is certainly an obnoxious idiot...........
Obviously, the Mirror is not good enough to paper the floor of a birdcage..........
Someone is miffed Britain no longer rules the world........
Quoting Blackleaf
WOW! Is it just me, or can American presidential races be embarrassing to watch?
On Monday, Hilary Clinton actually cried on TV. There is NO WAY than in more reserved, less emotional Britain, that a politician would cry on TV during an election campaign.
But other things about this campaign irritate Brian Reade....
Race is con trick
Brian Reade
10/01/2008
The Mirror
On Monday, Hilary Clinton actually cried on TV. There is NO WAY than in more reserved, less emotional Britain, that a politician would cry on TV during an election campaign.
But other things about this campaign irritate Brian Reade....
Race is con trick
Brian Reade
10/01/2008
The Mirror
I can never take US presidential primaries seriously for a variety of reasons...
a) They're asking people in Iowa to pick the most powerful leader on Earth (a hillbilly state where 90 per cent of the population call their sister "mom").
b) The frozen-smiled candidates all look like Madame Tussauds dummies. (I once spoke to Hillary Clinton and shivered as the words "imagine staying for an extra couple of pints after the match and turning up to face that" went through my mind).
c) Whenever they take to a podium it is to convince us they are the only person who can truly "change the world" as a mob of hand-picked, overfed, brace-toothed robots holler behind them (why do crowds of Americans often sound like a group of monkeys?).
This time the Democrats are even more annoying than the Republicans because they smugly believe they will win.
Because Hillary Clinton is a woman and Barack Obama is black they're convinced they offer a radical alternative to Bush's macho politics.
Yet who was the calculating brain behind Bush?
The one who helped formulate the neo-Con policy of American world domination through naked aggression, then toured the planet attempting to sell it?
Condoleezza Rice.
Who is both black and female (and someone else I've spoken to who looked like they'd come straight from Dr Who central casting).
America set for a radical, caring, unmacho future if a black man or a woman becomes president?
Tell that to the parents of the next bunch of kids who get slaughtered in a high school because entrenched forces like the gun lobby are the ones who truly run the country.
mirror.co.uk
I never.....is this guy actually under the impression he is a journalist?
He is certainly an obnoxious idiot...........
Obviously, the Mirror is not good enough to paper the floor of a birdcage..........
Someone is miffed Britain no longer rules the world........
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January 10th, 2008, 03:13 PM
Who rules the world Colpy?
To the sane people of the planet what the journalists has done is in the finest tradition of sarcasm and therefore definately funny. If the specticle of an American politician in tears beging the love of the demented electorate of that demented nation does not compel an uproar of laughter in the audience we can safely assume the audiance is completely brain dead, gone over to the other side no longer among us. The American electorate long ago ceased to be able to determine the difference between HollyWood and Washington for a good reason, there is none. All she had to do to produce the tears was to imagine actually enacting universal healthcare or paying her household staff living wage, the tears and wailing automatically pour forth and the electorate are enthralled and overcome with emotion and they'll continue the murder for Mrs Clinton to preserve the love and compassion. What a stupid excuse for a nation, how in hell can that ever be changed? Of course I do not doubt that our own fascist fat man Harper will one day soon be able to on stage, weep for the love of our nation and condemn us to the same empty future. He forgot to mention that piece of sactimonious crap Tony ( little dog) Blair who's almost as funny as Mrs Clinton.If you want a good laugh watch the news this evening it just keeps getting funnier and funnier with every new precision bombing mission and every corporate theft.
Who rules the world Colpy?
To the sane people of the planet what the journalists has done is in the finest tradition of sarcasm and therefore definately funny. If the specticle of an American politician in tears beging the love of the demented electorate of that demented nation does not compel an uproar of laughter in the audience we can safely assume the audiance is completely brain dead, gone over to the other side no longer among us. The American electorate long ago ceased to be able to determine the difference between HollyWood and Washington for a good reason, there is none. All she had to do to produce the tears was to imagine actually enacting universal healthcare or paying her household staff living wage, the tears and wailing automatically pour forth and the electorate are enthralled and overcome with emotion and they'll continue the murder for Mrs Clinton to preserve the love and compassion. What a stupid excuse for a nation, how in hell can that ever be changed? Of course I do not doubt that our own fascist fat man Harper will one day soon be able to on stage, weep for the love of our nation and condemn us to the same empty future. He forgot to mention that piece of sactimonious crap Tony ( little dog) Blair who's almost as funny as Mrs Clinton.If you want a good laugh watch the news this evening it just keeps getting funnier and funnier with every new precision bombing mission and every corporate theft.
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Location: Alberta, Canada
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January 10th, 2008, 03:33 PM
I read to here, and promptly dismissed the rest as more dribble from a moron.
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a) They're asking people in Iowa to pick the most powerful leader on Earth (a hillbilly state where 90 per cent of the population call their sister "mom").
I read to here, and promptly dismissed the rest as more dribble from a moron.
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January 10th, 2008, 03:40 PM
Quoting Blackleaf
There's no way Maggie would cry. Mrs. Clinton staged the whole thing. On Monday, Hilary Clinton actually cried on TV. There is NO WAY than in more reserved, less emotional Britain, that a politician would cry on TV during an election campaign.
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January 10th, 2008, 03:43 PM
Quoting Colpy
I think they have a hard time realizing that the days when the sun never set on the british empire are long gone, but they still think they do
WOW!
I never.....is this guy actually under the impression he is a journalist?
He is certainly an obnoxious idiot...........
Obviously, the Mirror is not good enough to paper the floor of a birdcage..........
Someone is miffed Britain no longer rules the world........
I never.....is this guy actually under the impression he is a journalist?
He is certainly an obnoxious idiot...........
Obviously, the Mirror is not good enough to paper the floor of a birdcage..........
Someone is miffed Britain no longer rules the world........
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January 10th, 2008, 06:13 PM
Brian Reade is an idiot.
He must have dropped out of grade 10, or whatever they call it in Britain, then probably went on to hone his "craft" at one of those embarrassing rags the British call a "newspaper" where the primary driver of sales is some 18 year old skank with four front teeth missing prominently displaying the only two things that make her interesting.
Its hard to come to any other conclusion when someone claims that Condi was the architect of Bush's foreign policy.
Brian Reade is an idiot.
He must have dropped out of grade 10, or whatever they call it in Britain, then probably went on to hone his "craft" at one of those embarrassing rags the British call a "newspaper" where the primary driver of sales is some 18 year old skank with four front teeth missing prominently displaying the only two things that make her interesting.
Its hard to come to any other conclusion when someone claims that Condi was the architect of Bush's foreign policy.
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January 10th, 2008, 07:16 PM
It's pure British caustic wit - it's main purpose is make some laugh and some mad, and all the while reminding the world of their superiority and that we are just former Colonists. You have to humour them kind of like your senile old Aunt.
It's pure British caustic wit - it's main purpose is make some laugh and some mad, and all the while reminding the world of their superiority and that we are just former Colonists. You have to humour them kind of like your senile old Aunt.
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January 10th, 2008, 08:52 PM
Quoting Toro
I suppose you think Bush was.
Brian Reade is an idiot.
He must have dropped out of grade 10, or whatever they call it in Britain, then probably went on to hone his "craft" at one of those embarrassing rags the British call a "newspaper" where the primary driver of sales is some 18 year old skank with four front teeth missing prominently displaying the only two things that make her interesting.
Its hard to come to any other conclusion when someone claims that Condi was the architect of Bush's foreign policy.
He must have dropped out of grade 10, or whatever they call it in Britain, then probably went on to hone his "craft" at one of those embarrassing rags the British call a "newspaper" where the primary driver of sales is some 18 year old skank with four front teeth missing prominently displaying the only two things that make her interesting.
Its hard to come to any other conclusion when someone claims that Condi was the architect of Bush's foreign policy.
Hawkings former plumber
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January 10th, 2008, 09:13 PM
Quoting Walter
There's no way Mrs Thatcher could cry, her heart was disconnected just after the war so she could join the conservative party. There's no way Maggie would cry. Mrs. Clinton staged the whole thing.
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January 11th, 2008, 06:29 AM
Quoting darkbeaver
Best PM they've had this last half century.
There's no way Mrs Thatcher could cry, her heart was disconnected just after the war so she could join the conservative party.
