On the Republican side: the contest among McCain, Mitt Romney, Mike Huckabee and Ron Paul. Am I missing anyone?..well at least these were the candidates made popular by the American media.
Given below are the two accounts of whats lately been happening. The first one is associated with the actor Matt Damon and the second one is of a journalist named John Kelly from BBC travelling across America, to understand Americans expectations from the November election.
Matt's reaction:
In an all new interview, Matt Damon says Sarah Palin in the White House is a "terrifying possibility!" "I don't understand why more people aren't talking about how absurd it is."
Damon tells The Associated Press that if Senator John McCain doesn't survive his first term in the White House, there will be a President Palin. "It's like a really bad Disney movie," Matt says about the possibility of Palin as Commander in Chief, "The hockey mom, you know, 'Oh, I'm just a hockey mom from Alaska'…and she's facing down President Putin [of Russia]."
Matt goes on, "I think that pick [Sarah Palin] was for political purposes. But in terms of governance it's a disaster."
Video Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6urw_PWHYk
I recommend you to watch the video. The way he said it: damn..nobody could have had pulled that off so well!!. Funny element no. 1
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Now on to Funny element no. 2
Source: John Kelly Blog
I got talking to Jordan Peagler, a 21-year-old student in a flowing CND logo-print dress. I took it as read that she, like everyone else round here, must be a true-blue Democrat - if not a Green or a Yippie or some such. But I was wrong. Jordan, who had moved here from Savannah, Georgia, liked the look of another new girl in town. "I guess I'm undecided," she told me. "But I like the look of Sarah Palin. I like her style and her manner. "I'm a fiscal conservative and an economic liberal. "But some of my friends lost members of their family on 9/11. That will weigh heavily on the decision I make, and I think that pulling all the troops out of Iraq at this time isn't the way to go right now."
It's an apposite point, today of all days, though not everyone in Venice would concur. But that's the thing with California. Why should it have to agree with anyone else?
Now hear comments from people:
At 12:11pm on 11 Sep 2008, Malaka57 wrote:
I am losing all hope, here: Ms. Jordan Peagler is "a fiscal conservative and an economic liberal," and she lost family on 9/11, so we should stay in Iraq. And she is a student? Of what, I must ask. The state of education in the US is in worse shape than I even thought...
Here's why: The GOP has turned a budget surplus into a 8 TRILLION dollar deficit in 8 years. That is fiscal mania. They are not economic liberals by a long shot, they are beholden to the YOYO system of conservative governance (you are on your own). As for Iraq: Has she not yet gotten the message that Saddam had nothing to do with 9/11 and we have squandered lives plus hundreds of billions in that poor country? And she is voting for the same?
I am nonplussed, I'll say that.
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At 12:37pm on 11 Sep 2008, Rayzer1978 wrote:
Malaka57 - you beat me to it!
You cannot be a fiscal conservative at the same time as being a economic liberal! She must have heard those phrases off TV and thought they sounded clever! As for 9/11 and Iraq? She must solely rely on Fox News for her info... So much for a new generation of voters...
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At 12:55pm on 11 Sep 2008, andydavids wrote:
"How can you be fiscal conservative and economically liberal? Does she even know shes contradicting herself in the same sentence?" I think she means she supports a government that is in favour of a free market and dropping trade tarifs and also cuts taxes and limits public spending. Its not the clearest sentence in the world but its meaning isn't too hard to work out. Agreed, typical British comment, criticise her as inferior because she expresses an opinion. Maybe the conservatives are known as the nasty party, but perhaps the UK should be known as the nasty country.
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Yes, of course! I enjoy documenting all this- for my own record. However the greatest joy lies in being able to make fun of it. As an outsider I can afford to laugh at it. But poor Americans. This whole political fiasco taking palce since the beginning of the primaries. They'll just Have to deal with it somehow, anyhow.
and ....once again...god!! its funny. Although I am not sure if anybody can beat our folks back home. They are on the other hand- an utter disappointment. But guess there's no harm in taking it all just in zest.
