In case any of the twenty-seven readers from the USA who are likely to visit this 'blog between now and Tuesday evening* are reading this , I beseech you, in the name of All That Is Unholy, please vote McCain/Palin on Tuesday. Yes, I know that they are awful, but as ever it is a question of The Lesser Evil.
* Per FlagCounter, 3,534 visits over 260 days = 13.6 per day x 2 days = 27.
Sunday 2 November 2008
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Don't think it makes any difference to us in the UK who wins. US strategic interests will remain US strategic interests.
MJW: There are a good handful of countries (most of them a bit dodgy) out there who are very much looking forward to an Obama win. You'd have to wonder why and conclude that yes, it may make a big difference to us in the UK.
Please vote Palin - It'll upset the Beeboids!
I hope McCain and Palin win the ticket, just to upset the Susan Sontag wannabee NYC feminist intellectuals who insist that if Obama loses there will be another civil war. Obama can afford to be a socialist. Most people cannot.
U, C, exactly. Given the choice between two fairly awful tickets, our best hope is seeing a lot of smug smiles wiped off a lot of smug faces.
What about the third party candidates?
Susan Ducey might storm past the post - who knows.
Hmmm. Who is Susan Ducey?
Of the crowd I hang with, 95% of us are voting Obama.
Friends don't let friends vote for doddering, one-trick ponies.
Carry on.
Pearl
Pearl said...
Friends don't let friends vote for doddering, one-trick ponies.
Good for you and your friends. None of us liked Hillary either ;-)
Rewind to 1997 and exactly the same bright young (and not so young) ingenues are voting for Obama in the US as voted for Blair here (plus, of course, the unmentioned fact that an overwhelming majority of US blacks will vote for their own no matter what his policies).
The vacuous Obama policy of "change" can mean anything to anyone as did Blair's "third way" crapola in 1997 if all you're actually voting for is to get rid of the incumbent: the identification of McCain with Bush - although manifestly erroneous and not helped by Cheyney's endorsement - is one of the successes of the Obama campaign. Luckily for the US, if the One wins, the US electorate can go into swift reverse in 2010 and 2012.
Umbungo, good point, the US has a much better system (the staggered elections of the senate and the house) for moderating its mistakes than the fire-and-forget British arrangement.
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