I do wonder how the Americans would have responded to the British approach of ‘nationalise the fucker’ though.

All that said, I still grudgingly admit that this most expensive band-aid in the history of the universe was necessary. Ugh.

I’ve actually already done my part to help with your bet, Tom. Early voting is a pretty nifty system. I think the campaign has dirtied Obama, but nowhere near as badly as McCain. I strongly respected both candidates a year ago: now I’m ambivalent about one and only generally positive about the other.

by the way you can keep this up all day, you are conversing with someone who is within the beltway, I can see the white house from my apartment.

And I forgot to say that the number of people who actually vote are incredibly inconsistent in numbers. Thus skewing polling into even further reaches of obscure untrustworthy numbers.

I fail to see how polling 500 to 600 people make an accurate representation of 300,000,000. Looking at any past election you can see polls are never to be trusted.

And the 3%? Got that off of a taker at a local Indian casino on the phone out of curiosity.

And regarding that whole ‘bail out Wall St’ thing, it’s just one of those annoying parts of an annoying and broken political and economical system called American Capitalism.

Don’t get me wrong, the English system is also in bad state. Personally, I think we should all move to Australia.

The spread is win by three percent here.

and FX at 11.00pm on weeknights.

I can’t be bothered to go into more detail, but the general gist is that: Banks make big risks, lose money, other banks won’t lend (our current capitalist system has been relying on hypothetical money and passing the enormous debts around), banks no longer have money, some fail, people lose confidence, shares and lending fall, giant cash injections of cash needed to buy this debt and make banks confident enough to recover and lend money where it is needed.

This certainly would effect people at a grass roots level, (ignoring the falling share prices and potential for massive inflation), for example, local business wouldn’t be able to borrow the money so couldn’t expand, lay-offs follow, less money means less spending, so the businesses might have to lay off more people. That’s how a local recession cycle starts.

I haven’t gone into any depth and I’ve almost certainly missed things out, but the deal is needed to restore confidence and allow the system to survive this adjustment more easily.

Also, need I remind anyone that politicians usually promise many things while campaigning and then go into office and change their policies altoghether? Given the amount of mud-slinging and inability to answer questions without slinging said mud among other things I’ve resorted to repeating “Hell in a handcart” whenever someone asks me about politics.

DEXTER! HUZZAH!

Okay, sure he voted for that stupid bailout. But that’s because my fellow Americans are stupid. They think this is going to do something, mainly because they’re being told it will help, not in fact researching it and noting that it’s pretty much, what, over 700 billion dollars given to the Secretary of the Treasury? He voted for it because people thought it was good idea, and it will reflect positively on him. Plus, that’s a basic democratic belief that the government should bail ou–I’m sorry, rescue–failing companies.

Offshore drilling, well that’s a controversial issue. If he votes for, he loses environmentalists. If he votes against, he loses some “Average Joe Six-Packs.” (Hate that phrase) (Honestly, I didn’t see how he voted, and a quick google search doesn’t reveal much so I’m not sure how he voted here exactly.)

Plus, Obama has good ideas on what to do with our edcuaton, Lord knows we need help there. And his health care plan really helps us too. We need this.

I don’t think that Obama will win by 10% though, after all, recent polls show that up to 30% of America think he is a Muslim, and therefore wouldn’t have to follow the constitution. Erm, guys (I know the 30% that think that probably don’t come here, you have to be a certain kind of awesome to read this blog), but he’s a Christian (Being half-black doesn’t equate to being a Muslim).

Also Sarah Palin believes that Dinosaurs and Humans co-existed. But she is blatantly right about that, after all, Chuck Norris came out in support of the republicans. Had it not being for Chuck we would have been wiped out by Raptors, but a Dinosaur stole his food one day, so he got really angry and obliterated the Dinosaurs with the force of a meteor. The reason that the most intact specimens exist in tar pits is because they jumped into it to suffer a slow painful death by drowning in tar, rather than face Chuck. He obliterated the rest and smashed them into tiny little pieces. So yeah, the Earth is 6000 years old and Chuck Norris killed the dinosaurs.

Sigh. Can I have more Battlestar Galactica please?

You know what infuriates me more than anything about the US elections? It’s Americans who tell non-Americans to butt out of the whole thing, to stop offering our opinions because apparently it’s not our election and it’s none of our business.

Except US foreign policy will inevitably inform UK foreign policy, and European foreign policy. And of course the US economy has its claws dug so firmly into our economy and every other bloody economy in the world that when it goes wrong, everything goes wrong.

So yeah, I get angry when I’m told that this election has nothing to do with me. It has everything to do with me and it’s going make a far bigger difference in my life than Davey Cameron winning next year’s election by default.

Obama sounds good, a compentent president at last. Then again, Hitler sounded good,

I was lucky enough to see you join a TF2 server I was on Tom, and you do seem to be a very good spy.

On a related note, something for fans of the West Wing:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/21/opinion/21dowd-sorkin.html?em

Namely, that Palin wouldn’t get dropped from the ticket. (I think I’ll win.)

On a more important note, man, I agree with you on Heroes. On the upside, Pushing Daisies is back, and as good as ever.

Politics bore me.