I think the number of people who've said to me over the past week, "yeah, but he's going to disappoint, just you wait", suggests that no-one will be disappointed - in fact they'll be secretly pleased.

I was just talking to KG, who asked for my blog address. I told him he wouldn't be interested because it's turned into a desolate backwater for me to extemporise upon the political system of a country I've never lived in and probably never will ( Read more... )

I was thinking about 'campaigning' in the US - ie, what purpose it actually serves. Not the grassroots organisational stuff - letters and leaflets in people's mailboxes, canvassing, etc. I mean the campaigning that the big hitters do - people like Obama, Biden, Clinton, McCain, Palin, Giuliani ( Read more... )

Just found this among my internet travels ( Read more... )

On a train ( Read more... )

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Anyway. In the middle of the night (US time - around 8am here) last night Barack Obama picked Joseph Biden Jr. as his choice for US Vice President. He did it by text messaging all his supporters - he'd promised to let them know before anyone else, which is why it came out in the middle of the night, as that's when the media outlets caught wind of ( Read more... )

Tomorrow I work, and bury incriminating items ( Read more... )

"The insinuation from the Obama campaign that John McCain, a former prisoner of war, cheated is outrageous."

Nach dem Aufstand des 17. Juni ( Read more... )

( American political stuff - with videos! )