Who cares? Whoever gets in will continue with the American administration's policy of bombing and subverting any nation that wants to take control of its own affairs and its own resources, as history has shown they have done for the last 100 years, each and every president including the self-proclaimed rock-star, Kennedy.

As for Americans seeking independence from Britain. No, it was a rebellion of a minority of leftie slave-owning British colonists who didn't want to pay their due taxes to assist Britain cover the cost of the wars in America that had ensured the French could not take over the British colonies in America. George Washington and his fellow terrorist insurgents then went on to commit genocide against the Iroquois (who earlier had helped the colonists defeat the French), setting the future course of American history. Highly unpalatable, but true.

Environment Policies

With Super Tuesday in the US Primaries today, it's time to look at the Big 4 candidates’ global warming policies as presented on their official websites.

A post at my blog, Fighting Global Warming US Style (http://laborview.blogspot.com/2008/02/fighting-global-warming-us-style.html) has the basics.

Obama has the slickest and most detailed. His plan is very similar to Clinton's. McCain is a convert but lacks detail on his site. Romney is to the right of Howard.

It will matter.

"2.9 per cent mentioned Iraq, while a similar number mentioned either climate or warming."

I find this an amazingly low percentage.

We're living through the worst foreign policy blunder imaginable in Iraq with the whole world including Australia far less safe as a result.

We've seen America steadfastly refuse to reign in its greenhouse emissions and its dependence on oil, preferring instead to satisfy its rapacious resources appetite by rampaging around the planet and using its military might to secure what it needs.

This is all down to the current US government. We're talking about a one-off last-ditch chance here to try and redeem the situation. And these world changing issues don't rate a mention? I'm surprised.

They may not rate a mention but they would certainly be taken into consideration by any respondent who's put even a modicum of thought in to their response. You've also got to bear in mind that the questions are fairly general, and funnel the respondent into the personality of the candidates rather than focusing on specific policies. Clearly, whatever the gloss, the emphatic win for Obama has a lot to do with his moral clarity in opposing the Iraq war from the beginning.

How many responses to the survey were received and collated?

Bronwyn is shocked at the lack of interest.... but the candidates never mention any of these things in the TV snips I've seen, so how could we comment one way or another?

All I've ever seen any American politicians say, well, shout, they 'say' nothing do they?, is that they will 'bring change'.

We all know 'change' is not allowed anywhere, especially on economic matters, look at Swann and Rudd after all, 'full steam ahead' and 'never mind the icebergs'.

All these dills in the USA will be doing the same whoever gets in, and none is going to end the various wars they are waging, the real or imagined ones.

It's a shame Gore isn't running. Not that he's a messiah, just that of all those pontificating 'change' makers, Gore is the only one to have suggested what direction his change might come from and go to.

It's also about past time we fell for the auld 'war hero' guff isn't it?

A real war hero would have broken out of Colditz, or dug a tunnel to get himself free, not sat it out in the Wartime Hilton... I remember when.... after all, it was good enough for Douglas Bader, and Biggles.

Let's face it... we're not the US, have no say in the US, don't really want to import the politics of the US here, and... when all's said and done... all these politicians are empty bean cans... look at Shriver married to Arnie supporting Obama... how do their heads work?