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Re: US Elections.........

Posted: Thu Nov 06, 2008 3:45 pm
by Nob3y
Also thank fuck she didnt get in,
I saw this on yahoo,

Sarah Palin did not know Africa was a continent rather than a country,
Aides to John McCain were shocked by the gaps in the Alaska Governor's knowledge at briefings after she was announced as his running mate, according to Fox News chief political correspondent Carl Cameron.

"She didn't understand, McCain aides told me, that Africa was a continent and not a country and actually asked them if South Africa wasn't just part of the country as opposed to a country in the continent," he said on The O'Reilly Factor programme.

Mrs Palin was also unable to name the countries involved in the North American Free Trade Agreement, which was "a major campaign issue", Cameron said.

Infighting over her performance intensified after her interview with Katie Couric of CBS, for which she refused preparation, was widely criticised.

"It didn't go well," Cameron said.

"She blamed Nicole Wallace, a senior adviser who had worked for CBS with Couric and had organised some of that interview, and then the rift began to really unfold.

"That refusal of debate preparation caused some problems."

He went on: "Afterwards, Mrs Palin began to attack staff and suggest she was mishandled and communicated that to some people within the McCain campaign and outside."

Mrs Palin became a nightmare to deal with and started to throw tantrums over negative press, Cameron's sources told him.

"The way I understand it, there were times when she would be so nasty and angry to staff that they were virtually reduced to tears.

"There was throwing of paperwork and things of that nature."

McCain staff also suggested to the Fox correspondent that Mrs Palin was a "shopaholic" who bought extra clothes despite the Republican party spending a reported $150,000 on her wardrobe


So BBC....... you think that most of this country is bothered about america when most of america doesnt know or care about the rest of the world??

I expect there to be american reporters reporting on our next elections on every street corner.The country will be full up with them telling america how our elections are going..... then again they will probably get lost with palin in africa !!!!


Re: US Elections.........

Posted: Thu Nov 06, 2008 7:14 pm
by c.j.jaxxon
You're right on point! I think we'll (or we should be) looking at every election overseas at this point to get a gauge on how the new pres. will handle things worldly.

Re: US Elections.........

Posted: Thu Nov 06, 2008 10:55 pm
by c.j.jaxxon
My sincerest appologies then. I though you meant "dick" as in Nixon! LOL! Yeah, well we over didn't think we'd EVER elect a black man and let alone a well qualified one at that. That's what made him more electable even more than Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton. They also were good qualifiers but to some whites they're too activist for them. As for his so-called arrogance to me I thought it was just pure poise and confidence. In his last debate with Sen. McCain he couldn't ruffle him, couldn't trip him up and couldn't make him angry and he finally answered his questions about his past associations with mentioned people. Now we have a president elect.

Re: US Elections.........

Posted: Fri Nov 07, 2008 3:09 am
by dean1234
So you under stand what we meant now . !cool!

Re: US Elections.........

Posted: Fri Nov 07, 2008 3:20 am
by Dickie Davies
Well, I've loved the coverage and am delighted Barack Obama won.

Surely everyone knows how important who the US President is and what he/she does is to us here in the UK?

How different would things be if George Bush hadn't been so keen on waging war in Iraq?

Re: US Elections.........

Posted: Fri Nov 07, 2008 6:06 am
by middle_aged_dutchman
'When is anybody going to be brave enough to end the evil that is Saudi Arabia, probably never.....'
Start an international program to replace oil by biofuel. When it succeeds, Saudi-Arabia will end up being just as powerful as Liechtenstein.
I wrote this on a Dutch forum too. They laughed me away...

Re: US Elections.........

Posted: Fri Nov 07, 2008 6:37 pm
by c.j.jaxxon
Good question!

Re: US Elections.........

Posted: Fri Nov 07, 2008 6:39 pm
by c.j.jaxxon
Obama did say he wanted to get away from fossil fuel and go toward alternative fuels.