Boris succumbs to Neocon Derangement Syndrome

Worried of Windsor

As all this negative blah about Obama just seems to make him more popular, might I suggest you try a counter-intuitive tack and start singing his praises. Perhaps that will work?

David

Oh, and:

troll, verb (trolled, trolling) 1 tr & intr to fish by trailing bait on a line through water. 2 intrans, old use to stroll or saunter. noun the bait used in trolling, or a line holding this.
ETYMOLOGY: 14c: from trollen to roll or stroll.

Actually learn the language before you start criticising its use.

Dee Ranged

That's telling him Melanie.

If NObama gets in, he will make such a hash of it that it will be years away before the next black candidate can consider becoming a candidate for the Presidency.

It's not just going to be a black day for America, but it will affect the whole world, in particular the Middle East since NObama has shown incredible fuddled thinking about the current state of affairs.

Iran will be one of the first nations to test his mettle. Expect other Arab terror groups to join in unsettling the status quo.

Steve Maughan

Boris' statement is sad. His reason for supporting Obama seems to have nothing to do with Obama's policies or principals. Indeed when he does mention his tax proposal it is only to say that he hopes Obama will be blocked by Congress. What hope is there if such an educated, and supposedly Conservative, man is taken in by the personality centric Obama campaign machine - surely policies and principals mean something?

fellow traveller

Good for you Boris! I'm liking him more every day.

Bojo fan

Ms Phillips, I too revere that blonde one, but I fear it is more as an entertainer and a writer than as a leader.

You can get weeks of common sense out of him and then, whoomph, we'll get an essay on why it's a good idea to give Iran the bomb.

Sorry, Bozza, I revere you too, but cant-free Melanie trumps everyone at the moment.

N

I'm not sure what is funnier, the fact that Boris is devoid of logic or thinking that the internet is a reliable (maybe he checked Obama's page on Wikipedia).
I disagree with you that the charge against Obama is NOT that he is acquainted with a former terrorist. That wouldn't be a problem if Ayers was reformed and sorry for his actions but he isn't and still is anti-american (as you stated), so being acquantited with him, is still pretty: sad, scary,fill in the blank....
You mentioned ACORN, in your blogs you've mentioned that they've tried to steal the election for the democrats. You know what ends up on CNN? One, singular, guy, arrested for voter fraud in california for the republicans. Yet, a whole organization that is country wide commiting fraud gets away free in the eyes of the media.

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/politics/2008/10/21/rowlands.voter.fraud.cnn?iref=videosearch

Verity

Boris Johnson's preening piece lacks pertinence in every point. Obama does not deserve to win because he is black, any more than a Chinese standing would deserve to win by virtue of having been born Chinese.

This is racism and is just as ugly on both sides of the coin.

Obama is not an Afro-American, no matter how much home-boy patter he adopts. His family did not endure generations of degradation and enslavement. His father scooted over from Kenya on a Yale scholarship, "married" (we don't seem to know if there was a marriage and, if there was one, if there was a divorce before marriage number two) and a white Marxist woman from Arkansas - a long way away from any slavery. Obama was brought up, we are to understand, in Indonesia, then Hawaii. I doubt that he had ever seen a black person in his life until he moved to Chicago. (Why Chicago, I wonder?)

Boris Johnson's writing is, as always, muddled by his interest in personal advancement and concentration on picking out his seat on the gravy train.

I find his writing - particularly that which his supposed to be amusing - tiresome and repetitive.

He may pose as a mahatama, as he does in this article, but his life is driven by ruthless ambition. I can't stand him.

Ian G

Boris seems to forget that the same media which labelled him a buffoon are trashing the McCain/Palin ticket. Now it follows that if they are right about McCain/Palin...

He, of all people, should know not to believe what he reads in the papers!

Huzzah the Horse

"The entire set of allegations seem to be an attempt to smear him by association, and are about as damaging as pointing out that some of Tony Blair's colleagues used to be Stalinists,"

But some of Tony Blair's colleagues were indeed Stalinists and Trotskyists committed to the anti-human ideology of Cultural Marxism. The effects of this are clear to see in Melanie's recent "Winston Smith's Britain" post. It's highly likely that Obama will himself pursue Cultural Marxism.

(Not that it would make any real difference anyway, not since the Clinton's NATO bombing of Serbia, America is probably the most ideologically driven country since the Soviet Union, that George Bush sacks CIA members who don't create sufficiently non-Islamic theories for Islamic terorrism - which tells you all you need to know about the Cultural Marxist multiculturalism on which the Iraq War was predicated)

Listen Johnson (if you're reading this) you incompetent Liverpool hating baboon: you are throwing the whole country away.

http://www.spectator.co.uk/melaniephillips/2452696/winston-smiths-britain.thtml

AF - Austin

Unbelievable. And I thought he was intelligent. What short-term vision he has.

Keep up the good fight.

logdon

I read it also and also noted the reference to Melanie. I actually like Boris and believe that he's one of the good guys but think this time he's succumbed to the multiculturalist disease rather than neocon nonsense. This is a desire to support ethnic minorities whatever. His employment of Ray Lewis resulted in disaster after it was revealed that so called vetting processes were overlooked and that Lewis's past was not quite as portrayed. Maybe he's doing the same for Obama, going for the image rather than reality. It seems like the US MSM is falling for it also. Whether it's white guilt or some other motive I don't know but it is incontrovertible the The One is getting an easier ride than either Palin or even Joe the Plumber, both of who's past's has been sifted over in ridiculous detail in the search for paydirt. Verity suggested that maybe he's a Manchurian Candidate figure and the way things are heading we'll know soon enough. He then of course could be impeached. Now THAT would be interesting.

Mr_Osato

And I'll ask why you don't address the issue of Nathan Sproul, the voter registration agent currently under investigation for fraud but still paid $175,000 by the McCon campaign to tell his operatives to dump Democratic voters' registrations in the bin?
It's all here http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/20/mccain-employing-gop-oper_n_136254.html

Is the right-wing extremist media suppressing this story like Palin and the rape kits or McCain's top transition man having worked for Saddam Hussein?

Robin

It's the hair, you know. His thinking's messy as well.

Chingford Man

A Cameroon politico jumping on the Obama bandwagon? Surely not.

There are basically 4 overlapping kinds of Tories:

1. The stupid, like the Essex Tory backbencher who claimed that Obama was a "compassionate conservative".
2. The opportunists (see above)
3. The closet lefties, who could equally have joined New Labour
4. The politically sound, sadly by far the smallest category.

Steve Mink

"The sickening hounding of Joe the Plumber"? How so? Guy asks Presidential candidate a question on the stump, tells lies, gets found out by the Press.

For the real story of Ohio Plumbers and what is really happening to their income under Republicans, read Paul Krugman's excellent article in the New York Times this week,

D Buckley

In his Mail on Sunday column, Peter Hitchens suggests that Boris Johnson seems to be turning into Ken Livingstone {http://hitchensblog.mailonsunday.co.uk/2008/10/were-getting-po.html}. If that is the case - and based on own observations I wouldn't disagree with Mr Hitchens - then Boris Johnson's enthusiasm for Obama is to be fully expected. As London Mayor Mr Johnson's agenda more than resembles that of Livingstone, whether it is expressed in his enthusiam for the dreaded 2012 Olympics or in his pandering to Islamic extremists. Once again Mr Johnson shows that he is lacking in substance in his endorsement of Obama. A rather empty vessel.

Augustus

According to Boris, Obama is a more progressive choice, offering people more hope of repairing America's ideals. He will no doubt have much to say in due course about all the progressive legislation resulting from such a choice.

Pip

Jeez, I am losing the will to live with all this corrupt and biased journalism. To say I find it all truly depressing is an understatement.

This week I decided I will no longer purchase The Evening Standard, because I have had their blatant biased reporting up to my back teeth. 30 years I have bought that paper, but no more. To imagine they ripped the scoundrel Ken Livingstone to shreds, yet can't fathom out that Obama is more treacherous! Their lovelust for Obama is puke inducing.

The other daily papers I buy, are also tinkering on the edge of my wastepaper basket.

If I want news, now, I feel I can only rely on bloggers, that of course includes Melanie.

Tonight, I was handed the freebie papers, and to my shock and horror, I read that Boris is in the tank for Obama. Jeez Boris, what are you on!!!!

Boris, you have lost all creditability my olde fruit. There was I only the other month public singing your praises, yet you now prove you are no better than the rest of the braindead Obamanoids. I had such high hopes for you, thought you were not run of the mill....how wrong I was.

What a shame, another one down the pan.....Fgs, are there any MP's out there capable of looking further than their nose and the despicable corrupt and biased mainstream media?

What a sad state of affairs. I truly despair of this country and the USA.

Gord help us all.

Daibhidh MacAdhaimh

Why am I not surprised by Mr Johnson's support of Obama? So predictable and argumentively hollow. His self-inflicted reputation as a 'buffoon' is not without warrant based on this performance. He too has been raptured by the contagious liberal spirit of the age as personified by Obama. He has lended his ears to fables; been blinded by the angel of light, as it were, mesmerised by Obama's carefully choreographed posture - walking panther like across the public arena, recalling Yul Bryner's gate in King and I - seductive charisma and 'Messianic' albeit vapid, ear tickling rhetoric. Yup, the wearisome content of Mr Johnson's muse reveals more about the success of the left's infestation and diluting of a political thought that was once clearly distinct from that of its political opposition but now merely echoes.
Incidentally, on the question of race. Are not the blacks who are voting for Obama because he is black, racist too? No doubt, in keeping with the quasi -postmodernism evidently guiding his thought processes, Mr Johnson would respond that minorities cannot be racist.

Byron in Wahroonga

Wow. Johnson's article is frighteningly banal and uninformed. When McCain wins, I hope he remembers to snub these opportunists, who waited until just before the election to backstab him.

Byron in Wahroonga

***guy asks Presidential candidate a question on the stump***

He. Obama approached the Plumber, Steve. Don't let the facts get in the way of your bias.

Pip

Jeez, I am losing the will to live with all this corrupt and biased journalism. To say I find it all truly depressing is an understatement.

This week I decided I will no longer purchase The Evening Standard, because I have had their blatant biased Obama reporting up to my back teeth. 30 years I have bought that paper, but no more. To imagine they ripped the scoundrel Ken Livingstone to shreds, yet when it comes to Obama, their love-lust for Obama is puke inducing. Whatever happened to investigative journalism?????

Some of the other daily papers I buy, are also tinkering on the edge of my wastepaper basket.

If I want news, now, I feel I can only rely on bloggers, or research info myself on the web.

Tonight, I was handed the freebie papers, and to my shock and horror, I read that Boris is in the tank for Obama. Jeez Boris, what are you on!!!!

Boris, you have lost all creditability my olde fruit. There was I only the other month public singing your praises, yet you now prove you are no different to the other braindead Obamanoids.

What a shame, another one down the pan.....Fgs, are there any MP's out there capable of looking further than their nose and the despicable corrupt and biased mainstream media we have to put up with?

Another sad fact is that so many people out there, who don't spend much time on the web, rely soley on one source of news, and don't have a clue as to what really is going on out there in the big bad world. Lemmings!

What a sad state of affairs. I truly despair of this country and the USA.

Gord help us all.

Pip

Oh heck, I thought this site said that it would publish ones comments immediately. So, not seeing my post appear, I believed something wasn't working. I reposted, with amendments added. I am very sorry if I have double posted.

(I'll get my coat! lol)

Conservative Cabbie

Sorry, you're probably getting bored with my rays of sunshine posts but unfortunately here's part 9.

According to Ace of Spades HQ, an internal poll for Obama's campaign has been accidently leaked to a radio talk show host in Scranton. The poll shows Obama only up by two points. Bear in mind that the RCP average has him up by 11. A huge discrepancy. Is it rubbish, a rogue poll or something indicative of a post Joe The Plumber shift?

http://ace.mu.nu/archives/276193.php

You decide...

Bill

I was certainly surprised at Boris's column. I expected that one look at Sarah Palin would have had Boris salivating. Do you suppose he has had an alteration?

hugh

In Britain, there is a widespread acceptence/apathy to "tabloid" journalism- the stench of that institutionalized cynicism is in the hapless shrugs and dejected civic spirit on broad display in the English cities as they cannot muster the will to "push back" and insist on immigrants'accepting British values and adhering to British law...when you , finally and you will be forced to-now due to your sloth , recognize that your Trojan horse is already to be seen in the public square , then you will have the right to criticize the Yankee electoral mode. It is a sublime curiosity to witness the collapse of British values ( the true "gift to mankind" )and the supine nature of a people who , once upon a time , shone a great light to the world. Now , these imported antediluvian and oppressive racist cultures are dictating to England. It appears to be more important to cavil over syntax and word-useage than to call out the wolf in the cowpen...for shame and awake as in olden times.

Verity

Worried of Windsor, do you really imagine the American voter gives a diddly squat what people who post on British blogs think?

Racism?

Ponder the following:

What if the Obamas had paraded five children across the stage, including a three month old infant and an unwed, pregnant teenage daughter?

What if John McCain was a former president of the Harvard Law Review?

What if Barack Obama finished fifth from the bottom of his graduating class?

What if McCain had only married once, and Obama was a divorcee?

What if Obama was the candidate who left his first wife after a severe disfiguring car accident, when she no longer measured up to his standards?

What if Obama had met his second wife in a bar and had a long affair while he was still married?

What if Michelle Obama was the wife who not only became addicted to pain killers but also acquired them illegally through her charitable organization?

What if Cindy McCain graduated from Harvard?

What if Obama had been a member of the Keating Five? (The Keating Five were five United States Senators accused of corruption in 1989, igniting a major political scandal as part of the larger Savings and Loan crisis of the late 1980s and early 1990s.)

What if McCain was a charismatic, eloquent speaker?

What if Obama couldn't read from a teleprompter?

What if Obama was the one who had military experience that included discipline problems and a record of crashing seven planes?

What if Obama was the one who was known to display publicly, on many occasions, a serious anger management problem?

What if Michelle Obama's family had made their money from beer distribution?

What if the Obamas had adopted a white child? You could easily add to this list. If these questions reflected reality, do you really believe the election numbers would be as close as they are?

This is what racism does. It covers up, rationalizes and minimizes positive qualities in one candidate and emphasizes negative qualities in another when there is a color difference.

Educational Background:

Barack Obama:
Columbia University - B.A. Political Science with a Specialization in International Relations.
Harvard - Juris Doctor (J.D.) Magna Cum Laude

Joseph Biden:
University of Delaware - B.A. in History and B.A. in Political Science.
Syracuse University College of Law - Juris Doctor (J.D.)

vs.

John McCain:
United States Naval Academy - Class rank: 894 of 899

Sarah Palin:

Hawaii Pacific University - 1 semester
North Idaho College - 2 semesters - general study
University of Idaho - 2 semesters - journalism
Matanuska-Susitna College - 1 semester
University of Idaho - 3 semesters - B.A. in Journalism

Education isn't everything, but this is about the two highest offices in the land as well as our standing in the e world. You make the call.

Verity

Byron in Wahroonga - Banal is the apt word. Predictable, all the way through despite desperate attempts at amusing twizzles and twists. More from the Boris ambition-disguised-as-tomfoolery factory.

Nor do I feel any affinity with that whole clique. These are hard, ambitious, greedy people.

Lee Jakeman

I wouldn't underestimate Boris Johnson's capacity for self-destruction.

William Cannon

I have to admit that I was expecting a much better column. You say exactly the same as those loony Neo-Cons at Fox News (Particularly Hannity and O'Reilly). It is plain guild by association both in the case of Ayres and Acorn. It is ridiculous to insinuate that Obama activly supports these "ultra-left, anti-white and anti-american" groups.

I hope you are a much smarter person than that?

In reality the UK (from the few months I spent as a 16 year old at one of your top schools last year) is much further to the left than the US, and it would be not a stretch to say that the Tories are equally aligned on the political spectrum with the democrats.

I am amazed why the hapless voters in the south will not support a president who cuts their taxes by 4.4% instead of .4% and giving the top bracket earners the majority of the tax cuts?

Can tell me why Obama will not be a good President, not only for the US but for the world. I have yet to find a good reason.

Hayward Maberley

Once a boofhead always a boofhead. Boris has always put his mouth into gera before his brain considers the direction.
That has been acceptable until now as many on this site will confirm. A Boris the Boofhead quote from the 2005 election campaign. "Voting Tory will cause your wife to have bigger breasts and increase your chances of owning a BMW M3"
An outstanding piece of Boofheadness!

American Voter

I'm dismissive of polls for many reasons, not least that most pollsters have agendas and weight their questions, target their audience and phrase their questions in order to achieve a desired result. A classic instance of this was a poll conducted a week or two back by CBS TV which trumpeted a "14 point increase in support for Obama" over McCain. The accompanying CBS report to that poll stated, buried within its pages of statistics, that the pollsters had polled 26% MORE Democrats than Republicans in order to arrive at that "14 point increase". When they have to go to that extent of skewering a poll, or beavering away at voter registration fraud to 'register' thousands of bogus voters, including a dead goldfish (yes, really!), then you know you are listening to a gang of losers. So, take heart, read information as it comes to hand, sift through it, pass on and discuss what seem to be facts and lies, and do carry on, on this blog and others, because I can assure you, this American Voter does read English blogs and so do many other Americans who are keenly aware of the blinkered, inadequate and dishonest reporting of Old Media.

As to Boris Johnson, did you all miss the fact that he uttered the Moslem declaration of faith before an assembly of Moslems, in perfect Arabic, and praised Islam to the skies? It was reported in the East London Advertiser in September 2008. No surprise, really: as he told his audience, his great-grandfather had served in the Turkish government and he was himself "proud" of his Moslem ancestry. He has, after all, been writing for years in the Daily Telegraph of his support for Turkey's entry into the EU. You have more Trojan horses within the gates than you realise.

Louise

I was saddened by Boris's article, Melanie, but not entirely surprised. The Daily Telegraph itself seems inordinately fond of Obama. In an editorial the day before Boris's article appeared it condemned McCain for, among other things, choosing an "under-qualified" running mate. It seemed to forget that Governor Palin is at least as well qualified as Obama!
I detect a whiff of old-fashioned sexism in all this.
Boris crowed that an Obama victory would show that black people can now crash the glass ceiling. The fact that the glass ceiling seems horribly resistant to women like Hillary Clinton and the Right's own Sarah Palin elicited no mention from him.

Worried of Windsor

Verity, old thing, remind me where I mentioned American voters. Obama has become pretty popular over here [due to Melanie's efforts, in no small part], in case you haven't noticed.

Conservative Cabbie

William Cannon

I can list a whole bunch of reasons why Barack Obama won't be a good President.

How about this one - his supporters have a tendency to call the people of the south "hapless".

Hayward Maberley

Mr Cannon,
Thank you for your contribution. For in the leading paragraph...
"You say exactly the same as those loony Neo-Cons at Fox News (Particularly Hannity and O'Reilly)..
you address the problem on Ms Phillip's blog. It appears to be mostly taken up,to split the infinitive, by those from the UK Founding Chapter of Neocons. It seems be their own chat room, and anyone presenting a rational. reasoned argument as a counter is often roundly abused.

phil

SORRY Melanie .you cant praise your champion regularly and then condemn him as a fool because his opinion on this matter is different .Boris is one of the most sensible writers I have come across ,a little prone to tomfoolery I know ,but usually right on the money .

I have a fear deep down that you may be right but as the majority of Americans seem to think the opposite why should I think otherwise ?Many people here have written the most outrageous accusations without the benefit of forensic analysis -what really bothers me is that I trust you but I do not know where you get your information from to make these accusations ,nor do you back them up with references -I do not care what posters like the fragrant one write as it is almost always nonsense and much of it disgusting ,but your words lie heavily with me .I have only two to choose from and sadly have no confidence in the Mccain camp ,and btw that was my initial choice !
In the end of course we do not have a vote but we may have had some small influence -who knows ?

Boris maybe has even read what I have posted here as his opinions seem very close to words I have used previously -just moderate and hopefully sensible ,but in the words of Mandy Rice Davies -I WOULD SAY THAT WOULDNT I ..(.lol .)

Chingford Man

Someone here contrasted the superior educational qualifications of the Obama-Biden ticket to those of the McCain-Palin one.

Adam Boulton in his new book has an interesting story about a new Prime Minister (educated at Fettes and Oxford) who had never heard of the Balfour Declaration and who had to ask his civil servants what it was.

Conservative Cabbie

Hayward

Seems you've caught the bug of generalising about those on a right wing blog who happen to be right wing.

Firstly to be neocon does not mean to be loony. I know it was not your line but you did quote it in agreement. As for myself, I never abuse anyone making a reasonable arguement as you should know from our previous discourses. Where do you get your moral superiority from? Have you not noticed the unreasoned attacks from people on the left on my kind of values. Do you just ignore it or are you blinded by your liberalism to it? You claim a desire for reasonable rational arguements. I'm afraid your post lacked any of those qualities.

Now THAT was a rational and reasonable response from a neocon.

grumpyoldman

Dear MS Phillips, you wrote:

"the audacity to speak up against the financial threat Obama’s economic policies pose to ordinary people"

A tax cut for those earning less than $250k per annum. A tax rise for the rich.

Please do the maths before writing such piffle.

John H

Oh the irony of neoFash conservatives decrying dubious voting practices is too delicious.

Verity

To the mincing Worried of Windsor, who writes: " Verity, old thing, remind me where I mentioned American voters. Obama has become pretty popular over here [due to Melanie's efforts, in no small part], in case you haven't noticed."

Obama's "become pretty popular over here". Over where, old fop? On an international blog, a mention of the coordinates can assist with judging the level of lunacy of posts.

If "over here" means Britain, rather than the US, who on earth cares? How did your self-important considerations become relevant in an American election? You are the dernier cri of irrelevance.

William Cannon, blunders forward, writing of Melanie: "I hope you are a much smarter person than that?"

Well, she's a much smarter person than you, that's for sure. And a much more accomplished person internationally than you, or you would know who she is. Your ignorance does you proud, though, and provides me the opportunity of a merry jape over breakfast.

To the subject: I have always sensed a ruthlessness and elevated self-regard in Boris Johnson. I'd forgotten that he's Turkish, though.

He and Cameron have the Westminster Village Tory party stitched up between them. I'm voting UKIP or maybe the BNP. I think a few BNP MP members might concentrate minds in the Palace of Westminster in a most constructive way.

Daniel Taghioff

Melanie, you misread the last paragraph, he was talking of irrelevance in terms of innate ability to do the job of president rather than social prejudice.

Which makes your comments about Boris's intelligence very much a petard upon which you are hoisted.

Worried of Windsor

Verity,

Well, duh, Windsor!!!!!!

Frank P

All you have to remember, Melanie, is that Boris's constituency is Londonistan; the rest follows. He was, is and always will be a political buffoon. I suppose we should be grateful that he wrested the Mayoral Office from his reptilian Marxist predecessor; that he took the opportunity to make the lame-duck Commissar an offer he couldn't refuse. But he is still pandering to militant minority interests that are inimical to the common good of our once beautiful, historical capital city - now reduced to a mangy patchwork quilt - infested in parts and badly in need of an overall theme, based on it's role of the seat of Government of England and the UK (the latter becoming less and less relevant), rather than a multicultural mish-mash of deeply jarring cameos littered with scowling, menacing faces.

If he considers that no evidence that has been adduced by you (and other members of the commentariat on this blog) linking Obama from a very early age with Marxist thugs of several different cadres, black supremacists - and a political elite in the Windy City that has been in the thrall of Organised Crime since they started to build on the Onion Field itself - then he should stay away from, and never interfere with the business of criminal intelligence or detection, over which, it is assumed, he now has some higher supervisory role. ‘Stick to policing Boris, you say?’ I doubt Boris the Bobby would ever make it past Hendon, even given its current parlous state. He would do well at the Bramshill Brainwasher though, if he could arrange to skip the beat bit, they would love him there.

You are far too kind to him. But then again, the Tory Party has indicated in more ways than one that they too are in the thrall of The Obamessiah (echoed in parts of this magazine) now that it looks as though, short of a pre-election hiccough, he will lead The Long March right into the Oval Office.

Perhaps four years of what the UK has experienced for the past 11 years will wake the American electorate up. But I fear that four such years will inflict damage beyond repair on our already battered Western Civilisation and its democratic free market tenets. How the Islamist jihadists must be savouring the moment!

Ronnie

Hell hath no fury...! This really is wonderful, Margo Leadbetter, stuff.

Poor Boris, steps out of line once and he's in the dog house. I wonder for how long?

Susan Hill

Meanwhile, hot off the press, Obama may not be home and dry
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D93VM4PO0&show_article=1

hadrian

Three Points-
1) Melanie is spot on, as is her wont.
2)Whyever did anyone imagine paying( over the odds as usual) for yet another political post- Mayor of London- was a good idea? Utter waste of tax payers' money.
3)Racist?, in his post, contrasts the university degrees of Republican and Democrat candidates and implies that lack of these awful handicap in serving the nation. What trash! I can assure you possession of academic degrees far from qualifying from high office probably do quite the opposite. Far too many academic hacks in our dumbed down universities, these days. Obama's leftist instincts at the very least bode ill for the future.
3)

Janice

All is not lost - hunky Tim Montgomerie, of Conservative Home, has nailed his colours to the McCain mast (D Tel 22.10)

zL1n0x

I was having a good read of extracts from Ayers communist manifesto. So much for him being an anti-war activist. He was a self proclaimed communist guerilla whose aim was to kill as many of fellow countrymen as possible in order to gain power by force. Nice chap. Isn't it wonderful he's now an "educator"?

Conservative Cabbie

Are we all taking an electoral deep breath?

Hayward Maberley

Neocon Derangement Syndrome how true Melanie. For they all appear more than a little deranged.
Notable sufferers include The Lone Deranger, from The Lone Star State, who leads, Tonto aka Five Deferment Dick who has been taken off the range and must be out to pasture somewhere.
Donald Deranger has definitely been put out to pasture, or could that read, put down, The rest of the Noisome Neocons seem to be back out somewhere in the shadows moving around as if in a Steven King book.
Many of them were also part of the PNAC Cabal that seems to have gone to knackery