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Listed below are comments made by olafpalme between Monday, 27th October 2008 and Thursday, 29th January 2009.

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BBC and the Gaza appeal 11:52am on 29 Jan 2009 BBC, Fox News....whats the difference now?
Festive Germans still prudent 12:00pm on 08 Dec 2008 "Guido Westerwelle tells me this is all about short-term politics. "It's really a problem that the rest of Europe is reacting and that the German government is still hesitating."

Ummm maybe it is in fact `the rest of Europe' that is short-terming it. If anyone knows about recession and depression and long-term views of climbing out of disaster (as well as getting into it) it has to be the Germans (Marshall Plan or no Marshall Plan).
Stretching America 2:05pm on 05 Nov 2008 re:62 parrissa
"Slate's recommendations (embrace McCain, appoint Republicans) is exactly what Barack must NOT do."

I don't think he will. Not directly anyway. He didn't make Hillary V-P candidate. Though she may pop up later ......
Obama shackled by debt 1:42pm on 05 Nov 2008 Uh oh... I see there is talk of `billions' of dollars on a trans-Atlantic forum!

From dictionary.com:

Billion:
a cardinal number represented in the U.S. by 1 followed by 9 zeros, and in Great Britain by 1 followed by 12 zeros.
Stretching America 09:51am on 05 Nov 2008 re:16 Pluto61 wrote:
"Americans have enough Palins without putting one in the White House. They are called cheerleaders, and you can find them scantily dressed at any sporting event."

Well GWB got elected twice and, if anything, his `inarticulationability' has even `less satisficationality' than Palin. Actually, you can just imagine GWB as one of those male cheerleaders at a US college football match. So, sadly, I can see a possibility of bad circumstances that, giving Obama a rough patch, could guide Palin up Pennsylvania *Ave.* as well as the electoral college votes of the state etc.
42 and 44? 11:57am on 31 Oct 2008 I'm giving up on this election and concentrating on the win-win factor.
Obama wins.. America will be more civilized.
McCain wins... we get more laughs from comedians.
42 and 44? 10:57pm on 30 Oct 2008 From what I saw Clinton came a bit close to doing a Kinnock `Well Alright!!' ... but luckily, not quite!
Bad losers and bad finishers 8:16pm on 30 Oct 2008 re: 356 moderate_observer wrote:
"bluepaddy sounds like a military recruiter, telling kids the only way they can be somebody is by being a soldier."

Indeed there are a few Starship Trooper fanatics who have got the relationship between country/state and service the wrong way round. McCain is certainly one. And his service was of HIGHLY questionable value. Such confusion sets up quite a few contradictions for any libertarian values they may espouse.
Are they bluffing? 10:02am on 28 Oct 2008 Its just too wierd that people would feel `safer' with McCain. Everything about him suggests he is anything but steady. His military career isn't one of distinguished command. He broke every regulation he could and alienated people around him. So, he got shot down bombing a country that never threatened the US...... due condolences. But he wasn't the only one and after that, what? Seriously.... what is this big honourable characteristic of his that `qualifies' him to make us `safe'? He couldn't administer a lousy political campaign. Same in 2000 against a novice Vietnam-dodging `W' of all people. He even `scr##ed up' appearing on Letterman.
Its a farce.
And then there's Palin.

I feel far safer with Obama. A black guy named Hussein defeating the Clintons and now the GOP without getting hot-headed? And far from being `socialist' , he's the man with at least some thought into his economic planning.
Reagan, Clinton, W, and Obama 11:54am on 27 Oct 2008 re 31, Drudge52 wrote:
"McCain has the experience,he has been tested,he can work with others across the aisle,he does have a history of co-sponsoring legislation,he does not buckle under extreme pressure,he has served his country in peace and war,when all seems lost he never gives up."

He has experience of bumbling and not learning from mistakes. Tested and Failed. He co-sponsors pro-Bush legistalation 95% of the time. He buckled to the GOP to take in Palen the nutjob. Some maverick. He lost to George Bush the imbecile in the 2000 primaries. Then adopted the man who really defeated him, Karl Rove. He `served' his country with reckless and arrogant flying (crashing), bombing in a useless war, and stayed in the Hanoi Hilton hospital where NVA officers were treated for most of his POW experience. He has a highly ambiguous understanding of whether the military serves the country or, with his election, vice versa (he will only `get' Bin Laden if we vote for him?) . Anything he says about Obama is merely uneducated garbage i.e. `socialism'. Well how did he place in his academic class?

I have nothing against `him'! But no one in their right mind could say he is a stable character suitable to be president. And then there's Palen right on his heels...........

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