so depressing... it's just so depressing... the idea of more wars ("on the side of god") more pollution, more bombs, more terror, more market plunging, more unwanted babies, more poverty in Africa, more corruption, more power to the corporation.... just because the People thinks "hockey mom" and "lipstick-ed pitbull" are charming phrases from a lovely lady.

the days ahead are going to be very, very dark.

i can see lots of reasons why people dont want mccain, but none for why obama should win, apart from default.
Is american politics all about trashing your opponent rather than winning by policy?

Agreeing with MM here, if the services, the food and the restaurant is poor i'd be hardly inclined to pay for the meal let alone tip. And if the waiter / waitress had the balls to ask for one they would definitely be given the good news.

Here's a question for America and other societies that so badly pay their service staff that the only way they can afford to live is to get a tip (either by good service food or bully boy tactics)...why dont you demand that people are paid a fair and honest wage in the first place....then tips definitely become a marker for good service.

Goes to show how impressive McCain is when all people can talk about is Palin

she has no differing opinions then the ones already in place. i wouldn't call that change. the only thing she has is absolutely no experience

Obama or I'm moving to whatever country will take me

I'm going out on a limb an will go for Cynthia Mckinney of the green party, she would make a much nicer print

First post. The McCain people have their trolls everywhere.

"if we elect Obama, we will see Affirmative Action on Steriods in America.." - WTF

"born in this country and reaps the reward" - little rewards to ask someone to go and get killed in an unjustified war

"everyone hates war BUT it is a terrible fact of life" If everyone hates it no one would go to war - to many people make too much money with it and the people that decide never go

"OUR FOREFATHERS" - like Germany in '33

shut up

The article states that 6% of people do so.
If you don't vote for someone because of his skin color you are a racist. (not you generally speaking)

"when enclosed in the privacy of their little voting booth, would find it hard to vote for a black person" Why? Don't imply your views on me.

"shows what you know that i know that you know that we all know" - Sorry - I don't know. This is used by the extreme right over and over again. They don't wanna talk about their racist views so they say say I just say what everyone thinks. That is wrong this study shows 6% are thinking like that.

Early in the year, obama was riding so high in the polls he was a shoe in for president, just as long as he beat hillary (which he did with a far smaller campaign budget)

However, you always get swings in peoples mood, plus we are so controlled by the media these days and in the states the media is mostly pro republican. The media publishes polls and we believe them as gospel truth. Lets be honest, if 5 networks collaberated 2 days before polling to say that mccain had a 20 point lead in the polls and was guaranteed to be president, it would seriously change the outcome. Some obama supporters would not bother to vote thinking it a waste of time, and if at the same time the same networks had blanket coverage of talking heads saying mccain is amazing and obama a fool then this would have a huge effect on voting.

It is the same with the econemy. If the news reports that high street spending is at its lowest in 50 years we think 'shit, better save instead of spend just incase things go tits up for me'. But when the news reports the highest high street spending of all time we are more inclined to max out our credit cards and blow our savings. The media only adds to the panic or prosperity.

I would love to see Obama win, i really would. The fact is that to become president you need a hell of a lot of cash for your campaign, that is a simmple fact. Bush had a huge kitty in 2000 and 2004 thanks to huge firms giving huge donations. But they dont donate for the fun of it, they do it so their man can alter policy or award contracts in their favour. Even apparant acts of kindness by the bush administration such as the time he announced that the US of A would send billions of dollars of AIDS drugs to africa, are made because the drugs are made by a company which donated to his campaign. Obamas campaign funds mostly come from supporters pockets, so if he gets into power his policies can be made for the common good and not because he owes favours.

Obama is a diplomat, he wont wipe iran off the map for threatening israel like the republicans would, he would talk to them. As for the econemy, in 2000 the bush administration inherited a government which was in profit by billions and didnt owe a penny. Now they are hundreds of billions in debt and having to nationalise big companies which are going bankrupt. How will cutting taxes of rich indeviduals help?

The fact is the states were in excellent shape when clinton left power and now they are in a total effing shambles and that is TOTALLY the fault of the republicans. Bush is not capable of having a thought on how to stop the rotting econemy and neither is mccain or obama, they have advisors. But the republicans surround themselves with the same idiots, no matter who is in charge. That is why the only way a change can be made is if obama gets in power.

If the republicans win with that evil bitch as vice president we are heading towards oblivion. If they do win i hope brown joins the euro and cuts the strong ties we have with the states and just have a normal relationship, because if we get dragged along with their policies we will be in serious trouble

do you REALLY think going into the euro is a bad thing?
The only reason the government wont do it just now is that it will finally hit home to us how much we are shafted on everything. We will be able to see, without convertion exactly how much more expensive everything is in this country. Why a BMW that is 25,000 euro's in germany is 45,000 euro's here.

Why do you think the UK is so financially fucked right now? Could it possibly be because we rely on the US econemy far too much for our own booms and busts. That we got financially involved with their mortgage fiasco's? My point is that a united europe looking after its own would be so much stronger than USA.

If you are a sun reader who doesnt want the euro because the papers say so then dont reply, but if you have a genuine financial reason for us not to join then please lets hear it, because i think we are stupid not to join

Yeah, I agree with all of your post, the thought of Palin in charge is actually very scary indeed.