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Listed below are comments made by Dockacre between Tuesday, 28th October 2008 and Saturday, 1st November 2008.

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Obama in enemy territory 08:14am on 01 Nov 2008 Where does the man get his energy? I feel tired just watching him.
A Land of Hope 07:57am on 28 Oct 2008 Good comments, Via. I don't know whether Obama's qualified for the job, I don't even know if you need a qualification - Abe Lincoln didn't. All I know is that Senator Obama appears to be the thoughtful, steady hand that America needs right now to regain her rightful place in the world. He actually stops and thinks before he speaks. Would that we had someone like that in the UK instead of politicians who spout the party line regardless of the question.
It's too easy to mock uneducated Rednecks when discussing the US. We in the UK have taken centuries to come up with a political system, for all its faults, that doesn't divide people along lines of race, colour or religion. It might not be interesting, but it doesn't produce such partisanship as can be seen in the US election at present. It took us an awfully long time to get here.
The Americans, on the other hand, are, by definition, comparitively recent immigrants who have carved a life and a political system out of the wilderness, believed in the enduring sentiments of the Declaration of Independence and have demonstrated their continuing belief in it by their acceptance of a candidate who, in their very recent history, would have been a slave.
Good luck America!

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