Comments on: Come Nov. 5th, All Will Be Forgiven

Why John McCain Doesn't Need To Worry About Offending The Media

[harbinger09]

There are plenty of countries other than the US that don''''t allow dogs in restaurants and many have even stricter public health regulations than the US.

Posted by ausus at 08:52 PM : Oct 06, 2008


That was interesting, but as a person from Europe, I am interested--which countries do not allow dogs in restaurants? Please do not mention, England, Holland, Belgium, France, Spain or Italy.....

[harbinger09]

TAcky but true--but we face a Depression. Though the media are true news wh.o.re.s and will create a ''spread'' for anyone of note, the public is a different matter. The vitriol against Clinton remains strong for Bill and Hillary all these years later, with the fallout that HRC may not be electable--not even among Democrats.

As for Bush--he may well be known as the man who destroyed America''s reputation, politically, militarily and economically--that is hard for people or their descendants to accept or forgive if they lost all and ended up in squalor due to the reckless spending and wars of the past 8 years.

So what about McCain? Let''s take his best case scenario--he wins the election and gets in office, continues Bush''s economic policies and his wars. We crash and burn and there is a world wide Depression. It is not unthinkable that McCain and Palin could face impeachment processes due to incompetency if they can''t get us out of the Depression--because the public unlike the media, live in the real world and do not so easily give up their rights and morals to the failings of a candidate. At least..a good portion of us don''t.

[juwboy]

jn122736: Hardly. Obama is a WHITE man.

musethalia: Only when convenient.

Exactly.

Barack Obama has a black father and a white mother.

So, if he isn`t elected as our country`s first black President, he can return to the country of his paternal ancestors and campaign to become Kenya`s first white President.

[andrew_693]

you people talk about europe, I lived there 3 years, is far more free than here, in a beach women go topless, try to do the same here in the US and go to jail. People smoke, drink do drugs etc and if a cop stops you all they do is tell you to go home and stop driving, in the US you go to jail. Over there (I don''t know in jolly old england) you can go to the beach at night they are all basically public, restaurants stay open till 5 am and don''t close till the last customer decides to leave unlike here. There are no curfew laws and don''t have the uptight puritan stupidity that rules the US. They don''t have the teenage pregnancies that we have neither and have superior education system to our "no moron left behind". In europe you don''t need a car therefore you are independent from oil companies, unlike in the US where if tomorrow texaco and bush decide not to pump anymore oil we can''t even go buy groceries.

[ausus-2009]

dnamj,

It sounds like we might even agree. It appears neither of us wants to see more restrictive laws in the US and would prefer to see some of the restrictive laws repealed.

My concern is that Obama who is the darling of Europe might get inspiration from some of their legislation.

[dnamj]

ausus,

I''m not denying that Europe has wacky laws, just like we do. But it does aggravate me that I can''t get married in all 50 states. I know I know, there are WAY worse countries, where I would be killed outright for being gay. I just worry that we''re headed in that direction sometimes.

We''re #12. I''d rather be #1.
http://hdr.undp.org/en/statistics/

[blackyowe]

McCain once had my respect but he has truly become the politician he once hated. He has also become a bitter, deperate old man with flawed judgement.

[ausus-2009]

dnamj,

I have been to Europe and have many friends who have lived there, as well as my daughter. For a start, England leads the world in public spy cameras. Germany jails people for denying the holocaust. In Switzerland you cannot flush your toilet after 10.30pm. In France you are guilty until proven innocent. Libel laws are much tougher in Europe - a blog such as this would not be allowed there. There are many more restrictions on the press and other media.There are European laws on every facet of life including how you can raise your child. There are plenty of countries other than the US that don''t allow dogs in restaurants and many have even stricter public health regulations than the US.

[ausus-2009]

ERoosevelt08,

I take it you believe Clinton should never have won, on the character issue. He was a serial cheater, beginning well before he ran for President.

[dnamj]

"more regulation of your daily lives (look at Europe)"
Huh? Have you been there lately?

Yes, they do pay higher taxes, but they enjoy far more freedom than we do. No stupid "blue laws", no war on drugs, no ban on *** of any kind, you can freaking bring your dog into a restaurant. It''s the fascist dominionist creeps like Palin who want to regulate your daily life.