Westcountryman

I doubt that, I think McCain will get in.

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Mikeuk

On some radio comedy show one of the comedians said 'We shouldn't be asking whether America is ready for its first black president but whether America is ready for the assassination of its first black president'.

The audience and the panel roared with laughter.

mkpdavies

I bet you all a pack of Wagon Wheels that Hillary makes a remarkable comeback.

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Britannist

It is certainly possible for her (Billary Clinton) to recover her position and move into the lead again in the contest to be Democrat candidate for the American Presidency. Not that that will happen, of course. I have always said the contest is wide open and that if Billary Clinton is to win both the Democrat Party candidate nomination and the American Presidency she will have to work very hard to get both.

What is looking possible now is the scenario of her Democrat Party rival Barack Obama going into the National Convention of the Democrat Party with a few more delegate votes than Billary (or about an equal number) with the matter of the disqualified Florida delegate votes for Billary Clinton becoming a key issue.

I heard an American television commentator saying a couple of weeks ago that Billary's team could demand that the Florida vote (in which Billary won a large number of delegates) are counted (the Florida Democrat Party primary votes were not officially included for some technical reason to do with the timing of the Florida vote).

Whether they are counted could make all the difference (in a very close vote) between whether Billary ultimately wins the Democrat Party nomination or not.

The American commentator I was listening to said that the issue of the disqualified Florida votes could split the Democrat Party if they prove to be the deciding factor in who wins the Democrat race to be Presidential candidate. If the disqualified votes are included helping Billary it could annoy supporters of Barack Obama who may boycott the poll (i.e. not vote in the next American Presidential election). If the Florida votes are not included and Billary narrowly fails to be Democrat Party Presidential candidate some of her own followers may not vote when the election is held (or vote for John McCain in protest).

Florida was the centre of the 2000 American Presidential Election campaign with the court decision to include some votes the Democrat Party wanted rejected helping Republican Party politician Mr. Bush become President. It now looks as if Florida could play a key role again in this year's contest for the American Presidential election.

youcanhandlethetruth

Ssssshh, I don't want the odds on Betfair to come down !

But seriously (ahem), the more I hear about this bloke the more I dislike him, and I don't even know him.

"You don't get to be President of the USA by being thick."

Is he talking about the same president who infamously quoted:
"Is our children learning ?" !!

Britannist

Any grammatical errors on the part of America's President Bush did not stop him winning the last USA Presidential election on the largest number of votes any Presidential candidate has ever received in the USA.

You see, the voters of the USA judged President Bush by his policies and actions and not on the fact that he many have not pronounced certain words correctly. In fact, such speech errors may actually have won President Bush extra votes from people tired of 'slick' politicians rehearsing their lines so they were 'word perfect' before going 'on camera'.

Blair made few grammatical errors in the way he spoke - but just look at the mess he he left and the dreadful things that the Labour shower are still doing.

Westcountryman

Oh come off it, President Bush definitely isn't the sharpest pencil in the drawer.

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Hartlepool

Or even the sharpest knife.

Mikeuk

Bush is a moron.

Britannist

President Bush is no fool - as his opponents have found out twice when ballot boxes were opened after polling closed in two American Presidential elections.

He is Harvard-educated and can pilot a Boeing 747: and indeed did so on one of his visits to Baghdad. Not many in politics can pilot the world's largest commercial airliner.

As for "definitely isn't the sharpest pencil in the drawer" - this is a man who fought and won a complex legal battle lasting weeks to become President of the USA (i.e. disputed votes in Florida in 2000) and who chose the strategist who made him a big name in Texas politics and who devised the election strategy which saw him defeating the might of the American 'broad left' in 2004 securing him the largest number of votes any Presidential candidate in the USA has ever obtained. In 2004, President Bush fought off the most determined effort by the leftists and globalists in America for many decades to defeat an American Republican Party President and came out of the battle with a record-breaking re-election vote.

The sneering 'broad left' in the USA under-rated President Bush - first they forecast he would never become President and then they said he would not win re-election. Wrong both times.

I correctly forecast that President Bush would win in 2000 and that he would win again in 2004 by the largest vote ever polled by a Presidential candidate in the USA.

It is the fashion in the UK (and in some other countries) to mock President Bush. But I do not follow fashions.

Whether one agrees with a politician or not it is a mistake to under-rate his or her electoral appeal or potential (where there is one). It is a mistake many in the UK Labour Party made in the late 1970's and 1980's during the years of the Government of Lady Thatcher.