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Listed below are comments made by forkwitt between Tuesday, 28th October 2008 and Wednesday, 19th November 2008.

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Pot Shots 2:30pm on 19 Nov 2008 Hanks. :)
Soft imperalism 09:17am on 03 Nov 2008 "American military power... can never have the potency of a Springsteen song"

Try telling that to any Fallujahn...

What a ridiculous statement Justin.

Sure, American contemporary culture can infiltrate where the military cannot, but it lacks the military's merciless ferocity.

(re: Fallujah) I hope I'm long dead and buried by the time another city the size of Edinburgh is flattened by foreign forces anywhere in the world.
Bad losers and bad finishers 10:26am on 30 Oct 2008 I keep reading about how Sarah Palin has "Mobilized the Conservitive base".

Every time I read the words "Conservative Base" I juxtapose the words "Christian Idiots" and the sentence seems to make more sense.

I'm not saying this for giggles or to be disparaging to Sarah Palin enthusiasts, I say it because I like to make sure that Americas "Conservative Base" is totally seperate in my brain space from the Conservative base in countries a little closer to home.

I think if you compare the Tories in GB and the Republicans in USA you'd be hard pressed to find common ground.

On a left-right political scale:

Labour(UK) ------ Tories (UK)
Dems (US) ------Reps (US)

Labour being In the centre, Tories centre-right with the Dems and the Reps further right.

(This is my opinion based on the so-called "Party Bases".
Are they bluffing? 12:51pm on 28 Oct 2008 Having watched the election campaigns from the outside (I live in Ireland) it has struck me that there is a difference in attitudes to the presidency from both candidates.

I get the feeling one candidate feels that the country owes him the presidency, and the other owes his presidency to the country.

It seems to me John McCain, for his heroic war-time service to his country and comrades, feels his is owed something, like he deserves it.

Barack Obama, on the other hand, as he says himself his story could only be true in America, feels like he owes it to America to be a good president.

Am I off base here?

Also, if Obama does win this election, I hope it'll be the end of Identity Politics. i.e. like being a hockey-mom or a joe-six-pack is somehow enough to be elected.

I despise the notion that political value is attached to being a certain kind of person.

Surely what some can do is more important than what they are.

Ray.

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