Another triumph for the Prime Minister

Reid of America

Americans in general couldn't care less who Europeans want to be the next president. Those that do care are already voting for Obama. I don't understand Gordon Brown's logic in his endorsement.

Obama is going to lose all 50 states. That may sound absurd but it is much more of a possibility than most realize. McGovern and Mondale both lost 49 states and they were far better candidates than Obama. The problem for Obama is once he starts falling behind he and the left will resort to the race card. They will say he is dropping in the polls due to latent racism. The Democrats will try to mau-mau the public but it will have the reverse effect. A massive landslide for McCain-Palin will ensue.

Joe Adams From USA

Does the PM think before he speaks? Anyway, McCain is getting enough 'help' from Palin and Obama-gaffes that he does not need "help" from a soon to be ex-PM.

Ruff

The only thing the Democrats have done is try to increase our dependence on foreign oil by refusing to substantially increase drilling {environmentalism), propose taxing our most productive at high rates (Income re-distribution), keep saying that America should put our own interests behind being liked by Germany, England etc, Secualarize our people, Legislate from the Bench, and their core value is reproductive rights (Abortion on Demand).

D Gray

Brown backing Obama is not a vote winner for Obama.Everything Brown touches turns into a pile of crud faster than you can blink.

Bill M

Maybe GB would garner more support by saying something like, "I support Obama because I agree with his approach to Muslim extremists--coddle, sympathize, and support with taxpayer funds and I therefore support Obama's proposal of an Islamist Deportation Prevention Fund. In fact I've set the model myself for him to follow.” That’s a very safe position for the PM to take as that is one Obama policy he can be sure will not change.

jose garcia

VOTE GORDON BROWN FOR
2010 IDIOT!!!

jose garcia

we have had the crunch and housing crisis for 6 months+

and they saw it coming more than a year ago

what the hell has gordon done over the last year but speeches and gaffes?

GeoffM

Dont worry Melanie, Broon won't be around for too long!

JJS

Now he appears not merely inappropriately -- and arrogantly -- partisan but incompetent. And he may have backed the wrong man – and brassed off the next US President before he even gets to the White House.

Par for the course, no?

Message to America

Frankly, our Prime Minister probably doesn't give a damn who wins your election. He's a single issue guy and, currently, that issue is saving his own political skin. He'd endorse a pig with lipstick if pigs voted in the British marginals.

David McAdam

Intriguing too that Mr Brown should laud a proposal bearing the hallmarks of charity, a principle that the left has historically scorned and opposed. However, today's left is very adept at aping benevolence in order to try and dupe people. The fiscal engine driving this 'Fund' had it been implemented would not have been fuelled by tin can collections or lottery money but tax dollars controlled by yet more government intrusion. Hardly surprising that given his conflicting mix of Calvinist (for charity) and Marxist (against but in favour of government control) credentials that Mr Brown caved in to the latter influence and slavishly stamped such a scheme - and its author -with his seal of approval.

David

Reminds me of Major being found ferreting for dirt to help the Republicans against Clinton.

Only not quite so bad.

John Miller

Ohhh, please, please Brown - just stop getting things wrong all the time. Stop embarrassing the country. I know you're short of ideas and I know you're incapable of leading a snail on a piece of string. We all know it. Stop pretending. Just become as quiet as a wee mousie and pretend you're invisible. You'll find you shoot up in the polls by about 10 percentage points. Oh and while you're about it, tell Darling to keep his gob shut as well.

Ian C

Reid of America - if you're anywhere near right then Obama will surely prove to have been the candidate of change! Change not only of the Democratic Party but over a longer period of US politics.

The Democrats will finally learn that they cannot keep selecting way off-centre patrician, morally equivalent expounding, elite liberals to stand for president. The Republicans will then get so self-assured that they will really screw up if not at Presidential level (they've done that already) then at Ccongress and State level.

The rest of the world, Europe in particular, will not remain unaffected. They will finally see the writing on the wall for the equivalent champagne liberal/socialist governments that we have in place grinding us into also rans among the economic powerhouses that are emerging.

If you're right Mr Reid, it will be a result for many more than America.

Austin Barry

So Brown doesn't write or read articles which appear under his name? Then he must be as mad as he looks.

djm

Reid of America

He won't lose 50, it will be very tight. McCain is winning by 2.4% on the average of National Polls on the excellent Real Clear Politics website. Although on their Electoral Map (including the No Toss Up States), Obama wins with 273 EV's to 265. He's only winning by 0.3% in New Hampshire though (which has 4 electoral votes). If that swings the GOP way then it's a tie. Anyone know what happens then?

Ann

"The problem for Obama is once he starts falling behind he and the left will resort to the race card. They will say he is dropping in the polls due to latent racism."

Actually, they are saying this already. And lunatic senior Democrats are claiming that mentioning the words 'community organiser' is a coded way of saying that Bambi is black.

The racist Democrats are running scared, obviously.

Ann

Austin, McLiar is as mad a march hare. I think the last 11 years have proved this, especially the last 12 months.

Bill M

Gordon Brown or Barack Obama on September 11?:

"We must also engage, however, in the more difficult task of understanding the sources of such madness. The essence of this tragedy, it seems to me, derives from a fundamental absence of empathy on the part of the attackers: an inability to imagine, or connect with, the humanity and suffering of others. Such a failure of empathy, such numbness to the pain of a child or the desperation of a parent, is not innate; nor, history tells us, is it unique to a particular culture, religion, or ethnicity. It may find expression in a particular brand of violence, and may be channeled by particular demagogues or fanatics. Most often, though, it grows out of a climate of poverty and ignorance, helplessness and despair."

Ronnie

Ann, you seem to be obsessed by race but in a rather confusing way.

Are you the Ann who screams, 'Racist!' at anyone who questions any of the actions and polcies of the government of Israel?

If yes, I find it strange that here you are whinging about lefties who may scream, 'Racist!' at anyone who may threaten the chances of Obama being elected.

Do try to be consistent.

Ronnie

Bill M, I assume that your point is that we should try to understand why things happen. That we should not engage our brains to seek out the causes of human events, including the disgusting and cowardly attack on the US on 9/11.

We should only react to them, violently in most cases. Am I right?

Understanding does not preclude punishment and retribution. Understanding allows us to move forward and maybe prevent some similar tragedies happening again.

If you really don't want to understand anything then we have a real problem.

Ronnie

Sorry, in the first sentence above the word 'not' she be between 'should' and 'try'.

Ronnie

Sorry, in the first sentence above the word 'not' she be between 'should' and 'try'.

stanley Jerusalem

First, what is mau mau [ other than a group of 1950's Kikuyu tribesmen]?
Second, it's no wonder that Blair kept Brown locked in the attic for 10 years and let him out only when the writing was on the wall and he could retire to a non-EU gravy train on the top floor of the Colony Hotel in Jerusalem and prepare for his crowning as next 'King of Europe'

American Voter

To djm: If there were to be a tie in the number of votes in the Electoral College, then the matter would be presented for vote to the newly-elected House of Representatives (for the Presidency) and to the newly-elected Senate (for the Vice-Presidency). In the House, each State of the Union would receive one vote. Last time around, in 1800, they took a vote 36 times over before arriving at the tie-breaker of a vote from Alexander Hamilton who, to his credit and America's undying gratitude, chose a Mr Thomas Jefferson for the Presidency.

logdon

If Brown wrote it he's an idiot and a liar to boot, bringing me to the inherent dishonesty of the haggis munching moron. Blair lied with elan and a sort of grinning panache which fooled many for far too long. Even I, an avid hater of the man had to admit a sneaky admiration especially of his final bow speech. Course it was all hollow fizz and smaltz but he had the gonads to do it, so fair does to the man. Brown thought that he could not only walk in his hated buddy's footsteps but that he would leapfrog the legacy. That he can come nowhere near is painfully obvious and the warts and blemishes Blair masked with his oratoric fairy dust are now exposed. Brown is a congenital liar and always was. Stealth taxes and budget day misinformation are a great exemplar of his desire to manipulate facts but now he's rumbled. Nothing would please me now than a slaughter by the SNP in Glenrothes followed by a greater carnage when we finally get a chance to eject these hollow men from office for ever.

Bill M

Ronnie,
Based upon what you appear to be accusing me of, your response is quite ironic. You’ve really set the model for seeking to understand before coming to a conclusion. You are wrong in your assumption and the conclusion you’ve drawn.

I was not disagreeing with the call to seek to understand. In fact, I support it. The reason I posted the quote was because I believe Brown and Obama share the same sympathies and approach to an issue more critical than mortgage relief and one that may eventually damage our two nations and cultures in a permanent way. Having to sought to understand, I believe they are both wrong in their approach to a solution.

Ronnie

Bill M, fair enough, I think...

Scipio

Note to well meaning Europeans, Eurotrashites, and al Guardianistas - mind your own house! Is it possible that you did not learn your lessons from 2004?