Paul.L,
You again...
Can't you stop your nonsense and do something useful?
Go and find yourself a hobby, man, there's certainly more to life than talking rubbish and believing in it...

Stan

Heh, I'd like to ask Governer Palin if she still believes teaching abstinence is an effective form of birth control :)

By the way, can we all try and stop the personal insults and focus on the policies.

I'd like to debate the concrete issues facing the candidates, not mindless slogans demanding change, with little real substance.

My biggest problem with both tickets is that they play to the lowest common denominator, rather than showing strong leadership. Both parties resort to mindless nationalistic slogans, but this is especially true of the republicans.

"Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel" Samuel Johnson

Ruby thank you for your note. Let me explain the decision to abort or not involves two or three players depending on circumstances. There is the woman herself, her medical advisor plus /minus interested family members.

The role of government is solely to ensure the procedure is performed by appropriately qualified medical practitioners operating in an approved environment.

One other thing Government has a duty to preserve internal law and order. We all know that any attempt to over replace Roe v Wade the 1973 American Supreme Court decision or equivalent would give rise to mass protests leading to riots and law breaking on a massive scale. This would clearly violate the maintenance of law and order principle.

Further if successful Government would be denied its supervision role over this aspect of medical practice.

Once the hype of elections is over, the wise politician knows it is best “to let sleeping dogs lie.”

Someone posted this link on leftwrites to a piece by someone who knows Palin, apologies if someone has already posted it here.

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/postpartisan/2008/09/_meanwhile_back_at_the.html

I think there is a lot to concern Amerian voters about Palin regardless of whether she is male or female. If I was a straying Democrat, I'd be galloping back to the fold which her being selected as a possible VP.

'Heh, I'd like to ask Governer Palin if she still believes teaching abstinence is an effective form of birth control :)

By the way, can we all try and stop the personal insults and focus on the policies.'

Isn't this a bit rich?

Sancho,

Thats funny. I feel like you could replace most of the anti-palin posts with the standard anti-US slogans of the loony left.

You say >> “ .. all the female voters sophisticated enough to back Hillary Clinton are now going to say "dat Sarie Pail-in's ... "

Sorry what? Sophisticated enough? You must be joking.

Your derisive rant would be considered racist if you used another accent to emphasise the supposed lack of intelligence of the native speakers. Just replace the southern accent with an aboriginal one, or a muslim one and see.

You say >> “ ... the US plan was to wait until the dust settled in Europe ..."

BS. The US played an important role in keeping Britain in the war in the early stages. There were initially some US leaders who felt the war was a European one. However that changed fairly rapidly as events unfolded. How was a beat Hitler first strategy to America’s benefit, when it was the Japanese that were attacking them.

you say >> “We lost in Vietnam fair and square,”

NO. Vietnam was lost in the corridors of power in Washington by a weak administration. So badly were they shaken that they even refused to pay for the bullets that the South Vietnamese were using to defend themselves. I recommend you read “ A Better War: The Unexamined Victories and Final Tragedy of America's Last Years in Vietnam” by Lewis Sorley or “ Lost Victory” by Ambassador to Vietnam William Colby. I wonder if you are suggesting that the Khmer Rouge victory in Cambodia and the Pathet Lao victory in Laos were entirely independent events.

You say >> "Close. The US bought into Iraq, and now it's bought a fragile ceasefire"

The Sunni awakening is FAR more complicated than just the development money that went to those tribes.They were sick and tired of foreign AlQaeda using their homes as launching points for attacks on the US and Iraqi gov’t. They have realised that there is a future for them which does not involve much bloodshed

TBC