N.L. Wilbur, was a journalist, turned critic, turned nasty and potty-mouthed...

I see absolutely no journalistic merit in this hate filled diatribe.

A bit caustic but at least he didn't claim McCain's a trrist or something.

50 points to anyone who posts a link giving the republican perspective on this rally. The one where several thousand schoolkids were bused in to make up the numbers.

I have travelled a little bit, and have yet to meet an American that I didn't like. This being said, why is it that when it comes to politics; foreign policy; and ratbag religious beliefs; that the great American public seem to go collectively mad? The USA would seem to me to be the only country in the world where a duo like McCain and Palin would be taken seriously qua democratically elected leaders.
The character and policies of the American president are, rightly or wrongly, of profound significance to Australia. We can but hope that even the collective American psyche could not be mad enough to install McCain as president, or Palin in any position whatsoever - especially after eight years of the Bush administration's on-going economic debacle, and the Iraq blood-bath, to name only two of many disasterous outcomes.

PS I understand (I think) the meaning of 'moose shooter', and 'right to lifer' but what exactly is a 'hockey mom'?

PSS There should be a 'W' in 'WRINGER'

N. L. Wilbur, a journalist turned critic,

'and under Rove's counsel he has launched character assassinations, hypocritical "socialist" claims, "terrorist" insinuations'

and the press has painted Sarah as a wonderful mother who cares enough about life not to terminate her child with a disabilty. This journalist/critic is about balanced as the ABC/SBS.

some of you have noticed that the writer is biased. no credit, he didn't try to hide it. he's biased because mccain is a garden-variety republican candidate after eight years of a notably bad republican regime.

bush2 is bad, in some ways the worst american president. but american presidents average at the 'scum' level, so i never had the feeling that he was uniquely bad. neither do i think that obama is the second coming of christ, or even jfk. he will be a big improvement on bush, and on mccain, but he will act as an american president- bombs will continue to fall on people who can't even spell 'america', much less attack it.

the economy and state of foreign affairs he will inherit make it hard to imagine what can be done to stabilize the nation. obama should get a 'hero of the people' medal just for volunteering to be president. but nations are harder to turn than super-tankers, and america has been drifting into fascism and empire for a long time. it will take more than any one man to to pull back from disaster.

Commonsense dictates that the disaster of the USA administration for the past eight years, cannot continue.
Their foreign policy of interfering, invading and bombing of sovereign countries has to cease. The days of colonialism and control of nations is way past, as the British government had to accept, and the American people need to be better informed of the facts, of what is being done in their name, but not to their betterment.

‘N. L. Wilbur, a journalist turned critic, believes that while the greats already said it best, news of White House blowjobs and pre-eminent war policies give the art of satire immortality.’

Holy McJeesus, I’m so glad I bothered to check out the ‘credentials’ of the author!!

Blowjobs?? Oh deary deary me…what is OLO coming to? ( : > |

Even McCain has been publicly shocked by what Palin and he have stirred up. There was an older lady Republican interviewed on TV and she said that if Obama won she knew she and her friends would be taken to the White House and shot. She was serious and scared.

That's the sort of person deciding the "leader of the free world". Makes you shudder doesn't it?

Mid way through the last period McCain stopped a few supporters and corrected them but having seen subsequent polls he has shut his eyes and gone back to the gutter. Creating God knows what to come.

Not a good time to visit the South one would suggest. If you do, spit a lot and knock some teeth out, it'll help.