Wednesday, February 6, 2008

America decides with real democracy - by Indy pal 2

 

Women of the Future? - Only time will tell.

So America has gone further down the road of deciding who will be President. I’m not cynical like Indypal 1 because I understand the American system of elections and it is better than ours. Strip away the speeches, music, conventions and what you have is the electorate involved in shaping the candidates of the future. This doesn’t happen here which is why we get such dullards as MPs and MSPs (indygal clearly excluded).

I’m delighted that Hillary won most of the primaries, she is a passionate woman of conviction and will be a great Pres, she’s bursting with ideas and will get health care to all Americans. That’s why I don’t share Indypal 1s rather snobbish rubbishing of their election process. It really does matter to them and us. If they had chosen differently last time Iraq might never have happened and that really does matter.

I have good friends in America and they want change and renewal, just like us. So lets admire what we can and adopt the good practices, with an open mind we can learn alot. As for the other candidates Mr Obama is eye catching but has no substance and Mr McCain makes great chips. So you see its not all bad.

So be of good cheer, the world is shaping up a new order with a SNP govt here and the Clintons back in the white house. Its nice to get some good news for a change. All we need now is Indygal in the Scots parly and everything would be perfect Smile

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Wednesday, January 9, 2008

Hillary for New Hampshire

Call me psychic but I had a funny feeling last night as I was heading to bed, that Hillary would win New Hampshire’s primary. It was something about the way the media were so certain Obama was going to thrash her. It just goes to show that the press don’t know everything although judging by the front page headlines in the UK today, they obviously think they do. In fact so sure of their ability to pre empt outcomes were they that they wrote the story of Obama’s victory and published it before it happened. And of course it didn’t happen. Amused me anyway!
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Sunday, January 6, 2008

“35 million people went hungry last year in the richest nation in the planet”

I am quoting John Edwards, one of the USA Presidential Candidates. I have to say what I’m enjoying most about the election coverage is hearing some of the candidates talk about their people and more importantly, their people in need. What we’ve (I’ve) come to expect from the US is talk of war and oil and taking over the entire planet whilst allowing their multi nationals to completely ravage it. No doubt it’s primarily because I don’t live there that I rarely hear about their domestic politics.

So, I’m encouraged to hear Edwards get angry about, for example, women with breast cancer (a topic close to his heart) who have to beg for treatment because they can’t afford it. Can you imagine the uproar if this happened here? And it is an absolute outrage that, as Senator Edwards said, it happens in the “richest nation in the planet”. (I’m sure it should be “on” the planet but I have to quote accurately.)

I’m torn between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama but I was more impressed with Edwards than I expected to be. Exciting stuff but it’s a long road.

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