Yabby,

I don't think you are at all wise.

Can you please quote where I have predicted the winner of the US election?

Can you please quote where I have labelled Obama with the convictions of his fellow Democrats?

Sigh ... I know you cannot. And all that shows is that you are either lacking in comprehension skills, or setting up 'straw man' arguments or haven't read my response.

None of those are attributes of wisdom.

Don't you share that great Aussie tradition of having a punt on the Melbourne Cup? But the point of my using that reference ... oh why do I bother.

Yabby while you might have had all sorts of associations in your life you'll readily concede, even if you don't share all views, all have influenced your life choices and ... well frankly you are not trying to hide them by not discussing them and you are not running to be US president.

You're right I haven't caught Obama fever, don't form opinions on the basis of Australian media or other biased media campaigns and I'm not so sure McCain would want me as a mate.

Jeez you make some whopper assumptions ... and that definitely shows a lack of wisdom.

Phillip M

what did you think of the New Hampshire Democratic Primary?

Re Joe the Plumber. I don't know why Democrats harp on about him when they should be looking at what Obama said to him ... like all the Republicans and uncommitted voters are doing.

And what mistakes are McCain's economic policy rewarding?

Palin was selected to galvanise the conservative republican base, something McCain couldn’t do. Anti- abortion, pro-guns, god-fearing etc. Palin thinks the rapture is imminent and the world will end in her lifetime so to me her head’s in the clouds. She’s a caricature. A figurehead. A purdy cheerleader taken off the sidelines and promoted to centre-forward.

Personally I’m tired about hearing about “dangerous times”. Howard and Bush dined out on this for years but it's wearing thin. What America’s experiencing is something they themselved coined - blowback.

The hare-tortoise race between Obama-McCain is almost entirely irrelevant: both flunkies backed the US Federal Reserve's bail-out idiocy from the start. They have no grasp, no idea of just what is happening i.e., the disintegration of the entire globalist financial system, along with the neo-lib religion that spawned it.

It is astounding that Philip cites FDR and JFK. Both presidents were protectionists, open about keeping government controls on critical sectors of the US market, especially infrastructure and trade links, and of the Fed itself. Both presidents would have scoffed at any notion of state bail outs for unproductive usury, speculation, and underwriting of toxic debt. Indeed, they would have been using warrants and much cold, federal steel to pursue the perpetrators of these massive, ongoing heists of public treasure.

On several occasions Hilary Clinton expressed her tendency towards more protectionist government roles. For that reason, Obama's sugar-daddy Soros absolutely despises Hilary and has gone on record to make his influence explicit. In one of his tomes about speculator hocus-pocus ('Alchemy of Finance', 1987) Soros too all but prescribed the bail outs as a mandatory "no choice" response.

Media fluff about Obama-McCain proves yet again a victory for style, publicity, and corruption over the substance of policy and ideology. The persistent insinuation of "race" (and sometimes even religion) represents the dirtiest and nastiest vanard against American democracy: the greatest insult to US political heroes Dr King and Malcolm X.

Yep, Yabby, I go for what Foxy says also.

To me the Repubs, though still good talkers, have lowered themselves like used car salesmen, being typical of the ending of the neo-free-market get big or get out historical phase.

For me as a born agrarian activist I still think of the old days during the Great Depression when unlike my grandkids we had the guts to become bush unionists to fight similar blackguards to the above, and supported by a Labor government, so hard to believe.

Cheers, BB, WA.

Today's paper says McCain's finding hope in the polls. A late comeback?

Yep, it'll be the closest landslide in history.

*I don't think you are at all wise.*

I am sure you don't Keith, but then clearly you show bad
judgement, so your opinion frankly does not matter :)

Ok, so far you have the Melbourne Cup wrong, lets hope
that you have the US elections wrong too, as predicted by
the poll which you seem to swear by.

The reason I've backed Obama for a long time now, is that
I think he does in fact show good judgement, compared to
some fairly idiotic types who have been US prez. That's not
just me. I watch Bloomberg a fair bit, hardly radically
left wing and people who have had dealings with Obama, share
my opinions.

McCain is an old man, set in his ways, who should be out
tending the roses, he has passed his use by date. He admits
to having little interest in economics and with a nutty
potential vice prez, it would be a disaster, another disaster
for the US, after George and Dick leaving America a mess, with
the cupboards stripped bare. I certainly would not want that
job!

McCain is known for his bad temper, in other words, he is letting
emotion dominate reason, hardly a great attribute. Wars get started
by people like that, when they cannot control their anger.

What Obama shows is an open mind, ready to listen to varied opinions,
and an ability to change his mind, if required. Thats shows great
reasoning skills. He stays calm in moments of crisis and does not
lose his temper like McCain, which shows emotional intelligence.
He shows great communication skills, not only when he writes his
own speeches, but when he agrees to talk to people, even his enemies.
Communication is critical in international affairs, for it can disarm
your biggest enemy. Hillary got that so wrong.

Lastly Obama has run a great and well organised campaign, to even
defeat the Clintons, so clearly he has great delegating skills and
organisational skills.