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(Part 2.)

Anyway, I'm interested in your Congressional work, especially in the fact that you seem to idolise any Republican politician (especialy the outgoing President, and yet you called the brightest Senator "a mouth-breather" and stated that politics attracts third-rate people.  I can't square that, I'm afraid.

Mind you, I got a good laugh out of the war stuff.  The reason you consider Afghanistan to be a done deal is because the US left with unseemly haste and left it to us in the UK and those Canadians you hate so much to clear-up the pile of c*** left behind.  Had it not been for us, the Afghan President would have had his head on a spike by now, and the Taliban would be back in absolute control.  My local Army Regiment (Royal Anglians) recently returned from deployment in Helmand Province, which was their bloodiest and most taxing deployment since WW2.  The situation is still precarious indeed.  The Taliban are still strong and putting-up incredible resistance, let alone the area in the mountains on the Pakistan border, where Al-Quaida are in control along with the Taliban.  You haven't even finished the job in Iraq.  I'll grant you that the regime change bit was straightforward.  The world is a much better place without Saddam Hussain; the problem was that your Neocon leaders were so staggeringly arrogant that they didn't see the need to fill the power vacuum that resulted.  This led to a huge "surge" in troop numbers being needed to prevent Civil War, which was avoided by a hair's breadth.  As a Briton, I don't need or want lectures on the success and necessity of wars where we've stood shoulder-to-shoulder wit the US.  I think the British people are apable of making their own judgement.

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Umm, his father got kicked out of communist Kenya for being too much of a Marxist purist.  And Obama Jr. wrote one of his two auto-biographies mostly on the theme that he aspired to live up to his father's ideals.  Plus he pals around with the likes of Bill Ayers, an anti-American Marxist bomber. 

Far as I'm concerned, he might as well be wearing a hammer and sickle pin.

Look, Americans simply don't know what Socialism is, because you really haven't experienced it within living memory.  You get a moderate Liberal, and suddenly he's Stalin to you.  Read up on the UK during the 1970s, and characters like Michael Foot and Derek Hatton, or the pre-London Mayoral iteration of Ken Livingstone.  Read about 3-day weeks, power shortages, workers constantly out on strike.  THAT'S extremeist Socialism.  Obama?  Liberal.  Seriously, the guy's policies are no further left than Gordon Brown's.  And don't start lecturing me on Bill Ayers.  I've read-up on him, including the newspapr article that Palin misquoted and misrepresented.  Ayers served on two committees with Obama, but, on one of those, the Mayor of Chicago was also present.  I challenge you here and now to state that the Mayor is a terrorist sympathiser.

Oh yeah, Ayers donated the political equivalent of pocket money to Obama's campaign for re-election to the Illinois senate, a;long with lots and lots of other people.  If anyone is a terrorist sympathiser, it's the Chancellor of the University of Illinois, Chicago, bcause he's been a respected Professor there for years.  Go there and demonstrate if you're so upset about Ayers.

For every Ayers or Jeremiah Wright, I can give you a Hagee or the leader of the Nationalist Alaska party Palin's husband belonged to.  She recorded an address to their conference two years ago, for crying out loud; their leader says he hates the US and wants no part of it.  They advocate seccession.  The same thing that lead to Americans slaughtering each other in the 1860s.  I'm sorry, but, as much as I'd like to see a woman get to the top in US politics, Palin is, for most non-Americans (myself included) a joke.

Look, I'l do a deal with you.  I intend staying here for the next 4 years.  If Obama becomes President, I'll return to this topic in 4 years' time.  If the US has become a Marxist state, with official press and state TV only, people disappearing in the night for criticising the regime, and sectret police on every corner, then I'll beg for forgiveness and agree with anything you say on politics.  If, however, this doesn't happen, and all this scare stuff ends up being just scare stuff, then you have to apologise to me. 

(End of Part 1).

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I AM scared to death, however, that an Obama presidency, aided and abetted by a Democrat-controlled Congress and the mainstream "news" media cheerleading from the sidelines, will plunge America into a Marxist nightmare from which it may never recover.

Seriously, Sir DCM, do not fear.  As a European, I can assure you that, however Marxist Obama may look to you, he really, truly, isn't. 

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Based on the current judging criteria, then, they picked the right winner.  Trouble is, as long as they encourage extreme physiques and the equally extreme steroid use that generates those physiques, the contest will continue to be a small, commercially-unattractive event.  Give me tonight to sleep on it, and I'll reply tomorrow morning with my plan for the Ms O. ::)

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I don't think we can reasonably expect all women to be inspired by it.  Different strokes for different folks.  I would hope that those who have a predisposition psychologically towards wanting to improve themselves physically might be inspired. 8)

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Euww, sorry to hear about the tooth, but happy that you had a good time, and welcome back!

Thank-you Sir!  Fortunately, a course of antibiotics has eliminated the abcess. 8)

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One look at your Avatar cpb, and Id say they are.  🙂

Ah yes, of course – dreams HAVE come true!  And people wonder why I love Cindy! 😮 ;D

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I was raised with the thermostat at 60, have taken to keeping it at 57 or 58 in recent years.  I have a cousin who can do a pitch perfect impersonation of his father, my uncle, saying "50 degrees is PLENTY warm!" Haha.

I admire the frugality, but are things that bad in the US just yet?  Surely the recession is all a figment of your imaginations?  (Re: Mr Gramm.)

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She do fair warm the cocklles o' me 'eart, matey! 8)

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I'm going to have to take time to view these, but that's dedication, ze fly! 😮

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