Quote: DaButt @ October 6 2011, 12:45 AM BSTRepublicans/GOP (Grand Old Party) lean right while Democrats lean left.
In UK political terms the Democrats lean to the right, the Republicans lean to the barking mad.
Quote: DaButt @ October 6 2011, 12:02 AM BST(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.)
We'll see.
Quote: Timbo @ October 6 2011, 10:46 PM BSTWe'll see.
His approval rating keeps dropping month after month, the economy continues to collapse and his own party members are beginning to criticize him and are slowly backing away. As it stands right now, the Republicans could nominate a potato in 2012 and still win the election.
Quote: DaButt @ October 6 2011, 11:34 PM BSTAs it stands right now, the Republicans could nominate a potato in 2012 and still win the election.
Wouldn't be able to spell his name though.
A woman has been jailed for 18 months for sinking her estranged husband's yacht at Brighton Marina. The Old Bailey heard she drilled three holes in the hull and turned on cooker gas taps, turning the £75,000 yacht into a "bomb".
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-15204904
18 months isn't much, considering her crime carries a maximum sentence of life imprisonment. I bet she'd be treated more harshly if her motives had been ideological.
Quote: sootyj @ October 6 2011, 11:41 PM BSTWouldn't be able to spell his name though.
They'll never live that down.
Quote: zooo @ October 5 2011, 11:56 PM BSTWhoooooooooo?
Isn't that Kev F's catchphrase.
Quote: Nogget @ October 7 2011, 7:20 AM BST
One man will never live it down. Iv'e never seen that incident tied to the party before.
And, of course, the VP was reading from cards provided by the school and ignored his instincts and followed what was written. The cynical part of me wouldn't be surprised if the erroneous card was deliberately planted for political purposes.
Quote: DaButt @ October 7 2011, 1:50 PM BSTThe cynical part of me wouldn't be surprised if the erroneous card was deliberately planted for political purposes.
You mean a conspiracy?
Quote: DaButt @ October 7 2011, 1:50 PM BSTOne man will never live it down. Iv'e never seen that incident tied to the party before.
And, of course, the VP was reading from cards provided by the school and ignored his instincts and followed what was written. The cynical part of me wouldn't be surprised if the erroneous card was deliberately planted for political purposes.
I note Dubya and Palin have never been asked to spell the names of vegetables.
or to be fair Hils Clinton and Obama.
How about replacing the next presidential debate with a spelling bee?
Albeit I'd rather watch Hils Clinton and Palin pleasure each other with cock shaped yams.
Quote: Nogget @ October 8 2011, 3:48 AM BSTYou mean a conspiracy?
"waits for Catskill to post a You Tube video of the card being inserted (or was it?) . . . "
Quote: DaButt @ October 6 2011, 11:34 PM BSTHis approval rating keeps dropping month after month, the economy continues to collapse and his own party members are beginning to criticize him and are slowly backing away. As it stands right now, the Republicans could nominate a potato in 2012 and still win the election.
Someone who rose that quickly in Chicago politics must have a few poltiical tricks up his sleeve.
I hope so for all our sakes. It looks like the US Republican Party has been captured by nutters in tin foil hats and even the Tories look embarrassed to be associated with them.
Quote: youngian @ October 8 2011, 4:07 PM BSTIt looks like the US Republican Party has been captured by nutters in tin foil hats and even the Tories look embarrassed to be associated with them.
I can't recall any tinfoil hat conspiracy talk out of any of the leading contenders.
Obama will be a one-term president unless the economy suddenly turns around by November of 2012 and all signs point to that being as likely as unicorns flying out of my butt. His poll numbers are plummeting, his own party members are slowly beginning to back away, the formerly friendly press is beginning to turn on him and there are some major scandals (Fast & Furious, Solyndra, etc.) brewing. Stick a fork in him, he's done.
If unicorns flew out of your butt you'd shoot them and barbecue them. 
I think they should stay in there.
I know she isn't a front runner, but she is a disturbingly powerful and influential voice.
And this story made me feel ill when I came across it on a training course.
Ok, they taste like shit anyway.
I think Obama has been too weak to stand up to the voices on the far right, who are all positional debaters.
If you can't stand by any of your parties principles then resign.