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British media, including the supposedly conservative ones, are supporting Obama and (especially) hounding Sarah Palin, with a ferocity unknown even to their American counterparts, and looking more like the Daily Kos than anything, so to speak, human. This is appalling in itself, and may well end up being disastrous if by any chance McCain and Palin win. These creatures are planting poisonous ideas in the average British reader, which will take decades to weed away. And incidentally, it does nothing to disprove my view that at the roots of all serious modern political conflict in the West there is abortion; for the British media and establishment, including the so-called conservatives, are completely sold on the practice, and anti-abortion forces are marginalized to an extent unknown and hard to believe in Italy or America. This goes back a long time - Margaret Thatcher always voted in favour of abortion. Now, Sarah Palin, simply by being who she is, is a living rebuke to all the abortion-is-necessary crowd; and this explains the ferocious hatred and the avalanche of pathological lies with which this attractive, polite, competent female politician has been welcomed. Find me another explanation that makes sense! It also accounts for the complete silence that has been enforced on anything that might make Obama, the most pro-abortion candidate in history, look bad or even moderately dubious. It is not about race; if Judge Clarence Thomas were running for President, he would be treated like Palin has been. It is not even about party; if Condoleeza Rice had run and got the Republican nomination, you can bet your life that she would have had a much smoother ride than Palin. She, after all, has no children. You cannot underrate the power of repressed and concealed guilt feelings, crawling under the skin of all the career women who got rid of unwanted babies in order to please bosses and boyfriends, and indeed among all the men who were complicit in their crimes or even demanded them; when faced with a brilliantly successful career woman who not only had five children, but opted against aborting even the disabled one. (I don't suppose it helps that she is beautiful and looks ten years younger than her age. The sheer unfairness of the distribution of beauty is salt on any open wound, and the wound in question is painful enough in the first place.) Sarah Palin is a mirror who tells them the truth about themselves; and it is a truth that they cannot bear to see.

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Far from upsetting the cart, choosing Sarah Palin is what is sinking the cart for Mccain. My facts sir, are indisputible. My girlfriend has in fact met more heads of state. Sarah Palin is in fact governor of a state with less people in it than austin, texas. You are being a mysogynist by defending a woman who herself insults women, and the intelligence of women. My girlfriend (who is Lithuanian, speaks 5 languages, and has gotten scholarships as well as having won scholastic contests in europe for her education, she is now doing PHD work) and I have watched Sarah Palin speeches, debates, etc. She calls for regulation (which republicans don't believe in, and McCain monikered himself "The great Deregulator" and on the other hand says government needs to "stay out of the way" not 5 minutes later. Which shows how smart the people who are cheering must be if they can't understand the ideology of the very party they are cheering on!
You think that you are oh so superior by having persuaded yourself that you are a british intellectual and therefore must be right. Arguing that elitism is wrong and what must be avoided is sheer hypocrisy coming from such as you.

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Why should I discuss anything with anyone whose facts are indisputable?

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And why should such a perfect person bother with my poor little blog?

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You would almost think that I said something that affects him!

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I am not a British intellectual.
Your facts are indisputable?

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Oh, incidentally - why does someone whose facts are indisputable feel the need to give credentials? If you are right, you do not need girlfriends with PhDs.

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And... oh... only five languages?

(Sorry, I know that's preening, but after this blast of foolish and insecure denunciation-cum-invective, I do think a little comeback is in order.)

English
French
Italian
Latin
German
Spanish
Portuguese
Studied but forgotten: Sanksrit, Avestan, Ancient Greek, Icelandic.