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Maybe the Mr. Kaletsky and the Times of London should mind their own business. This country will be more then happy to elect a black President, provided there's one who is qualified to be President (e.g. Colin Powell for starters). There is nothing in Mr. Obama's resume that comes close to those qualifications, and that's the reason he won't end up in the Oval Office.

It's one of the templates for Barack Obama's campaign.

And America is proving that it's perfectly willing to elect him instead of Old Lady of the Plantation Hillary.

If/when Obama looses against McCain in November (or indeed, Clinton in the summer) it is wholly inevitable that the press here (I'm from London, UK) will blame it on typical racist backwards stupid Americans. It will not even be considered that, perhaps, Obama isn't nearly as qualified as McCain.

Even so, the idea that a McCain win "would seem to overturn every principle of proper democracy" is laughable, even by the standards of British journalism on America. Especially given that the democracy of our system over here pales in comparison to the US system.

Translation: the one I like. What a self-parodying idiot this fool is. The cretin never considered that Obama has been exposed as a left-wing empty suit who utters nothing but banalities. Then again, it is hard to apprehend traits shared with others.

As Crank (and I to a lesser extent) have pointed out, the oppression narrative embraced by the Democratic Party almost demands that Obama loses. Anything less would not sustain that draw for "victims" and those who would step forward to save them. Kaletsky does not understand that he will be joined en masse by his left-wing North American brethern in claiming poor Barry never had a chance. This was due to the sea of bigots who didn't see how hope could lower gasoline prices, end terrorism, and stop climate change.

This election has been and continues to be priceless.

someone who goes to an anti-American church and thinks that gun owners and religious people are just bitter about the economy.

Heh.

Publishing an opinion piece on American politics by a Brit economist is a beautiful dodge. The clown can vent his spleen in ways that a sociologist or political scientist couldn't. If Kaletsky gets called on his errors, he can claim to be unaware of why he's wrong since, after all, he's just an economic commentator, and a Brit, at that.

The meta-absurdity is Kaletsky's abetting the same dodge that backstops Senator Obama's absurd candidacy. To wit: if the electorate rejects this inexperienced, credit-stealing, elitist, Marxist class warrior who surrounds himself with America-haters and crumbles into stuttering incoherence when rattled out of the prepared-remarks womb the MSM provides him, then it must be because the electorate cannot see past the color of his skin.

I've been reading the articles and letters to the editor about Obama in The Guardian. The reason why Obama is so beloved over there is because they believe he shares their modern European outlook:

Opposes military force....Favors negotiation with enemies....Calls out Americans on their backwardness and racism....Why, Obama sounds just like us! Americans should be thankful they've finally got someone like that!

That is the prevailing sentiment across the Atlantic.

... the Dems invent, nay perfect, identify politics; the Dems get scr*wed by identity politics; the Europeans interpret this as "just more American racism."

Making me crazy.

John
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Why would God invent something like whiskey? To keep the Irish from ruling the world of course

[This clown invaded our web site and used some disgusting words to refer to Obama and others. He was from the other side, I've little doubt, trying to guilt us by association. This clown is gone.]

The term should be "CLINGING-gate". AND, there are several bloggers, on other sites, from the middle east, who believe BHO is "all that"... they are out there in bloggers-sphere showing their support. It is sickening.

American is not ready to elect Sen. Obama (D-Buyer's Remorse). Waffling and the like is not a matter of black or white.

Our British friends should understand this, right? Certainly they're not ready to accept Sharia law. Right?

Right?

These libs don't get it. It's not the color of his skin, it's the content of his character. We just don't want a raving Marxist in office. We don't want someone who is willing to tell us that religion is the opiate of the masses. We don't want someone who is willing to shutdown our economy because he doesn't understand how trade benefits both sides. Someone who isn't willing to defend his own country. etc.

Socialism doesn't work. It looks nice on paper, but it's been tried and it's failed miserably every time (usually accompanied by widespread death and suffering).
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