Well once again you are wrong. McCain chose Palin to have a chance. He would have run out of ehthusiasm and money if he hadn’t chosen someone who was new and had traditional conservative support. She excites me-because she has a proven track record Sen. Obama doesn’t have-he just doesn’t. She’s crushed the corrupt part of HER OWN PARTY. Let’s see Sen. Obama even consider that. By the way-I’m not not evangelical-but I like Palin.

And this “anti-intelectuallism” instance is a fatal hypocrisy in any political party, because as far I remember all political parties were started by intellectuals. And its bullshit also, because no matter how “Commun Joe” the man/woman elected is, the people that run the show behind the curtains in Washigton are all think-tanks, academical “snobs” who happens to be politically smart.

Oh well, I wish the best for the USA, because its an awesome country.

I agree with you completely. I am more worried about those casting votes than those being voted for (or against).

For some reason a lot of academics have very distorted world views, so much so that I wouldn’t trust them to make the right decisions in a position of power. Academics are supposed to be smart people. Therefore I don’t think intelligence necessarily translates into political success. Perhaps it’s a lack of pragmatism due to an insular life? I don’t know, but I think it’s a real phenomenon.

If you truly believe what you have posted, then you have no business voting anywhere.

I have reached that point in my life where I truly believe we need a minimum IQ or educational standard in order to vote.

A simple, non-partisan test, administered by the city clerk’s office once a quarter. You want to vote? Study the issues, learn the Constitution and show up for the test. Bring a photo ID and a copy of your birth certificate or nationalization papers.

Respects,

Wow, Biden can’t face the press-Biden can’t remember anything he said the day before-argued that everyone had a television in 1929 and FDR was President then-Yet Palin’s “extremely dumb”?

Wow. She’s got one of the highest approval ratings of any American Politician in history-yet she’s ridiculous.

You’d probably argue that Sen. Obama is experienced too.

But I do follow the elections as much as possible from the portal of the internet and news here in the UK.

What I really hate… is that there is no arguments here as to who should be elected, just that people like Obama, and dislike McCain. Noone here knows why… everyone just dislikes McCain.

This is purely as a result of media spin here – McCain gets no good media and Obama gets no bad media. To be fair, it’s nearly impossible to hear on the news what either politician has to say on key issues!

The bad side to this is that, no matter what… public perception here in the UK is that they already dislike McCain. Why… noone will be able to say. Just annoying why the UK media are already trying to influence the UK’s disposition on elections before even realising what sort of impact we may have on UK/US relations!