And hasnt Sarah exhibited such magnificent dignity in the face of the nasty and bitchy little boys and girls who continually try to bash her and her family.

More power to her each time you guttersnipes abuse her and her beliefs.

Go girl ... the next US VP and first woman to run for the
US Presidency in 2012.

jason60>"Things in AU are not bad when you favour talking about some other countries political happenings"

I'm sure you're just joking,. but last time i checked it seemed our government and it's citizens are becoming extremely institutionalised, which is terrible as you can see from the increasing government controls and censorship of the Australian population, and burdensome increases of useless government agencies and regulation. Soon you'll see that developing countries have greater freedom and liberty than Australians which is being pulled down to it's knees by power-hungry, corrupt socialists and fascists.

Hey steel
Give an example of greater freedom and liberties. So we can all get educated to your level of ideas.

Keith. No one is being "bashed"--- yet. Though there is still a possibility that Obama may be asassinated.

Meanwhile in the context of USA politics people are just exercising their democratic rights to criticise their politicians.

And the right-wing USA blogosphere (in particular) is full of hate speech, and the associated politics of binary opposition, and thus the potential for bloody scape-goating. If only we can get rid of the pinko-liberals then everything will be hunky-dory.

Meanwhile I came across references to a book titled The Political Brain by George Lakoff. In it Lakoff points out that right-wing USA politics, and "religion", have nothing whatsoever to do with reason or reasoned arguments, or quite often, even concrete evidence or facts. It is all based on appeals to emotion---often very primitive emotion.

Plus such Christians believe that they are not subservient to secular laws, their allegiance is Above All Earthly Powers---which is the title of a book.

If any "earthly" law contradicts the Bible then it is wrong---full stop, no contary arguments allowed.

Seeing the quality of Walter Brasch's journalism you can understand the dire straights of the media.
Rather than having the title of Professor of Journalism perhaps the title of Prof of Spin would be more apt.
To attack the man rather than the policy is becoming all the more prevalent in the media, whether it be climate change or politics.
Rather than reporting the news it has now become how can I sway the reader to my opinion of the news.
Thankfully there is the Internet and the delete button!

"I wonder how you guys [sic] can suggest with a straight face that Palin is inexperienced. Palin at least has been a Govenor [sic], and she's only running as VP. Obama is a first term senator, where's his experience?"

And unlike Palin, Obama was never a regular on Seinfeld as far as I know. At any rate, Palin's experience or lack of it doesn't matter. As Paul L says she is only running as Vice-President. Moreover, what she says now as crowd pleasers will be irrelevant if the Republicans win office. What the bosses of US corporations say and want is what matters regardless of who gets in.