Quote: zooo @ October 5 2011, 11:56 PM BSTWhoooooooooo?
Read back.
I read the news today oh boy! Page 546
I mean whooooo else is lurking in the wings?
Or did he just mean in general.
I think he means the Tea Party.
Don't look now, but the leading Republican candidate is an African-American. This could be a hell of a race.
(It wouldn't surprise me to see Obama decline to run or to see Hillary stand up to him. The man has very little hope of being reelected.)
That's interesting. Obama seems to have been a disappointment. It always amazed me that the US must have many highly intelligent people yet they picked plonkers for President. At least Obama has/had a brain.
You're buying into partisan propaganda/lies if you think that every other president hasn't also been intelligent and well-educated.
Do you ever get one of those thing that, however hard you try, you cannot get fixed in your head ?
One of mine is Republican / Democrat.
I know one is broadly Labour and one broadly Conservative but for the life of me I can't remember which.
If you asked me now what party BO represented I could say that it's the Labourish one, I think, but not if it's Republican or Democrat.
I need a mnemonic.
Or a shot of JD.
Just heard that Steve Jobs has died.
Quote: Oldrocker @ October 6 2011, 12:40 AM BSTI need a mnemonic.
The Republican mascot is an elephant. The Democrats are jackasses.
Republicans/GOP (Grand Old Party) lean right while Democrats lean left.
So BO is a Democrat?
Quote: Oldrocker @ October 6 2011, 12:47 AM BSTSo BO is a Democrat?
Yes. So were Clinton, Carter, Johnson and Kennedy. Nixon, Ford, Reagan, and both Bushs were Republicans. That covers the last 50 years.
And, if it's not too delicate a question, where do your feelings lie DB ?
Edit: the Steve Jobs story just came on the BBC website.
Well, they had that ready . . http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-12215485
Quote: Oldrocker @ October 6 2011, 1:01 AM BSTAnd, if it's not too delicate a question, where do your feelings lie DB ?
Every time I've taken one of online tests that plots one's political beliefs it's always come out dead center, but I tend to vote for Republican presidential candidates because the Democrats always seem weak and a bit naive.
This is a nice tribute to Steve: http://boingboing.net/
Quote: DaButt @ October 6 2011, 12:45 AM BSTJust heard that Steve Jobs has died.
Ouch! so young.
So that was why he retired, he must have known that he was dying of cancer.
He had a liver transplant a few years ago that gave him some extra time but it was painfully obvious that he was wasting away over the last couple of years.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-15200509
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-15197774
Quadruple rainbow; unfortunately, not a very good picture.