Presidential or What?

Who looks the most Presidential - Barak Obama or John McCain? Or perhaps Sarah Palin should be up there in the choice because, frankly, McCain ain't looking so hot health-wise. Three times cancer survivor is three times cancer getter n'est-ce pas? So his record on cancer is not to be envied. Does the USA want Sarah Palin as President? Perhaps they do. I heard a lady on Radio 4 this morning saying that we, the British more specifically the British Press, were being superciliously nasty to Ms Palin and that we had misjudged her appeal to the American people. Well dang my britches if that ain't the darndest accusation I ever heeard! Is it too much to ask that a Vice-President, possibly a President, can speak in joined up sentences and knows a little, just a little, whereof she speaks. I know we've all been conditioned to low expectations by eight years of W but maybe we might not be in the shit heap we're currently in if we'd had a President who could read without moving his lips. To replace him with another one who's definitely short on international experience is, to say the least, dangerous. Ms Palin is undoubtedly smart, a cute as a pet fox some might say, but is Alaskan native cunning enough on the international stage. I suspect not.

Baraknophobia - How to Engender Fear & Loathing in the American Electorate

TV conditioning is paying off for the GOP in the presidential brouhaha across the pond. Just the faintest suggestion that Obama has cast a sexist slur at the Palin person has been enough to provoke howls of faux anguish from Republicans across America. The five minute attention span of most voters means the far-right spin machine has only to make the accusation and the chattering classes heave themselves upright briefly on their nationwide sofas and bray their disgust on cue. It matters little that McCain himself used this attack in a blatantly sexist way against Hilary Clinton, Sarah Palin started the ball rolling by paraphrasing this old joke in a speech of her own or that Obama was not, in fact, referring to Palin at all, the mere suspicion of a sexist remark towards their new pin up has a significant percentage of the American right breaking out the sheets and the sisal and heading for the nearest tall tree. Ho hum we've got weeks of this shit to come and if it weren't so scary it'd be laughable. The merest hint that this wrinkled old scrotum and his bat-shit mad running mate might be occupying the White House is enough to make me want to find my own beam and perform my own rope trick.