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Listed below are comments made by JohnAAA between Wednesday, 24th September 2008 and Tuesday, 17th March 2009.

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A whale of a week for climate 10:59am on 17 Mar 2009 Richard Black

I do not know where I stand on the issue of man-made global warming. But it is utterly clear where you and the BBC stand - and that is disquieting, it all looks like campaigning rather than objective reporting.

Your reasons for the BBC failing to report the New York conference are totally unconvincing. Yes, there may be POLITICAL attention on the Copenhagen conference. But that does not justify giving lots and lots of coverage to that conference - including alarmist headlines - and NIL coverage to the New York conference. The BBC website is the largest in the world, you have what, 1000 journalists ? Yet not an iota about the New York conference.

You cannot deny that the attendees in New York included many competent climate scientists (as against "environmentalists" who are not expert in climate science). Whether they are right or wrong is not the point - the point is that they should be heard. Dissension is what science is about.

Of course you yourself are not scientifically qualified to assess the evidence. Nor are you any kind of expert in computer modelling, on which much of the global-warming thesis is based. But we do not ask you to ASSESS the Mew York papers or discussions - we ask you to report them, so the licence-payers can see the issues in the round.

All the drift of BBC coverage continues to present man-made global warming as proven fact - and deliberately suppresses views to the contrary. And this is made worse when you seek to deny what is blatantly obvious.
Polling Obama 00:52am on 17 Mar 2009 Why does Webb still have to wear rose-tinted specs when reporting on Obama ?

According to Pew and Rasmussen, Obama is doing badly compared to his predecessors :

http://hotair.com/archives/2009/03/16/pew-obamas-support-eroding/
Straight talk from Obama 02:21am on 25 Sep 2008 gunsandreligion

You have it to a T.

McCain shows statesmanship, Obama is seen to be partisan. That is the chess game, Obama is losing it.

Another example of McCain taking fast initiatives, Obama being put back on his heels.

With all this trouble, Obama should be miles ahead. He isn't above 50% except in the odd poll. Palin continues to have a better net favourable than Biden, Biden is goofing off all over the place (5 examples I can think of in a fortnight).

Obama will be cast as ignoring the gravity of the situation.
Straight talk from Obama 02:01am on 25 Sep 2008 360 aqua

That is where you are so wrong. McCain is not worried about debating Obama - it is Obama who has spent 3 months avoiding Town Hall debates with McCain.

Bipartisan action is needed in Congress. That is McCain's forte.

By contrast, Obama would be about as much use as a smell in a spacesuit in securing cross-party agreement.
Straight talk from Obama 01:47am on 25 Sep 2008 Dodd will shiv Obama by working with Mccain to get passage of a compromise Bill, Obama will be hung out to dry - McCain ACTS, using his Senate seniority, while the kiddo from Chicago carries on speechifying and fundraising.

Because - let's face it- Obama is a nonentity inside the Senate. It's still broadly 50/50 that's where he'll be in January.
Straight talk from Obama 01:31am on 25 Sep 2008 347 allmymarbles

No-one is questioning the agonies of the Depression. The discussion was about Biden's gaffe, which related to the Great Crash of '29, not the Depression that followed.

And people over here are not ignorant of the hardships. Not just by reading - my favourite friends these days in LA were in Ohio, his father was a bank manager, bank was closed, they survivied by growing potatoes. And yes - their real chance in life came from him moving to worrk in the burgeoning aircraft industry, she to New Mexico on defence work.
Straight talk from Obama 00:43am on 25 Sep 2008 allmymarbles

Your remarks about the Great Depression have nil relevance to anything that Biden said.

He goofed, is all. It was funny, as usual. Why people can't just accept that Biden goofs as a matter of course and move on I cannot understand.
Straight talk from Obama 00:31am on 25 Sep 2008 David_Cunard

The Great Depression is irrelevant, why do you keep raising it ? To dusk the issue yet again ?

Biden was plainly talking about the Great Crash...... 1929...... 3 years before FDR was elected..... And TV was not used by FDR for his chats after he bexcame elected.

Is that simple enough for you ? Do you need remedial teaching ? Or are you just playing obtuse.

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If there are heavy negotiations going on in the Senate, heavy attempts at bridgebuilding, all working against the clock because matters are increasingly urgent, there is NO time to take off for debates, that is not how things work.

You don't have any sense of priorities, do you ? Are you an academic ? - that would explain it.

Do you have any idea of the potentialc onsequences of this thing stringing out much longer. Here in London, as important a financialcentre s New York, banks are refusing to lend to each other longer than overnight. They are turning down 3-month rates ff 6% or more - they would rather lodge with the Bank of England. THAT is what McCain can see.

Obama seems blind to the seriousness of things. Too busy speechifying as usual.

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328 Fritz

You don't get the endless bias of the BBC that we get here in Britain. It is forfeiting its right to the respect it once had.

Try checking out some of their "Have Your Say" postings, they are torn to shreds by licence-payers for leftie bias. Those HYS posts right now are inundated with complaints about the pro-Brown campaign the BBC is waging. They are doing just the same with Obama, day in and day out.

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(Over there you have Rezko, Obama's felon friend and neighbour.

Here we are fortunate to have a brilliant new exhibition of Mark Rothko at Tate Modern-he donated a lot of his major works to the Tate just before his death.)
Straight talk from Obama 11:56pm on 24 Sep 2008 Obama as a very junior Senator may not be needed in Washington - he would probably be a fifth wheel - but it needs some people of stature in the Senate to try to find a concordat - which McCain fits.

Harry Reid looks a busted flush, Dodd as Banking Committee Chairman is tainted, Schumer is a joke, Kennedy is unfortunately out of action.

It would be ironic if McCain and Clinton worked across the aisles on this one !

It is Obama's privilege to absent himself from Washington, there is nothing new about that, it is his normal MO. But the ball is in Congress' court, the situation is urgent, and McCain has a far better sense of prioroties than Obama.
Straight talk from Obama 10:54pm on 24 Sep 2008 True to form - Justin Webb has just done a totally biased interview on BBC Newnight.

The guy is in the tank for Obama. Little news from him as usual - just relentless anti-Mccain/Palin opinionising.

I bet he doesn't even realise how blatant he is.

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