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Listed below are comments made by GrahamPollCrackers between Monday, 5th May 2008 and Friday, 5th December 2008.

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Are Canadians falling into the Obama trap? 6:43pm on 05 Dec 2008 Canada is a vast expanse of land which is underpopulated by people with silly accents, cold, scenic, and mostly ignored.

It's basically Eastern Alaska. I think maybe they yearn for Palin, not Obama.

What has Obama ever done other than run for President anyway?
Bailout failure shows Bush's weakness 8:02pm on 29 Sep 2008 Pelosi failed big time. The Democrats control congress.

Not a single Republican vote was needed to pass this bill but 95 Democrats decided to vote against their party's position.
Is it something about Austria? 9:23pm on 05 May 2008 Crazies all over. Just make sure they don't get into positions of unchecked power as Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot, and the others did.
Bashing the 'elite' 9:02pm on 05 May 2008 As usual Mr. Webb, you have American culture wrong. Elitism is not about what level of education you've completed or what tax bracket you belong to.

Elitism is about looking down on the average American. That's what we all have a problem with. There is no anti-intellectual trend, it's an anti-snobbery trend. Maybe the Brits don't understand the difference.

When an American stepped on the moon, nobody complained about 'that elitist' Neil Armstrong. Nobody complained about 'that elitist' Lance Armstrong. Nobody complains when one of our own achieves great success (well, Democrats might want to punish him with taxes). We applaud every Nobel Prize in science, We applaud every technological advance. We applaud when the intellectuals among us achieve something the rest of us could not.

We do not applaud when someone begins to believe he is above the rest of us. Whatever success you achieve does not afford you the right to look down on others. That's elitism. That's snobbery. That's what Barack Obama showed when he talked about the "little people" in his speech at the Getty mansion.

How long have you been here now? You obviously don't know us very well yet.

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