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Texpat

I'm not suggesting that military service is a positive experience to adapt toward civilian rule, but there are some attributes that don't fare well toward serving the public.

Surely you know them well. If you had the opportunity to chose an untested, unknhown first term MP or a guy that had served 20 years in the forces and another 20 years as a tried and tested MP -- where would your vote go?

Caution-to-the-wind -- whatever is cheapest -- yeah, I know.

Fortunately Americans aren't such a bunch of stupid, short-sighted cunts.

flash

so can someone only lead if they are stupid enough to get captured by their enemy?

buriramboy

Errrm the difference being us Brits don't treat our prime ministers as heroes where as you Americans all worship your presidents and always jump to defend them anytime a negative word is said about them, even clowns like Bush.

flash

the Bush family are a good example?

buriramboy

At the end of the day in reality what has McCains military experience got to do with him becoming president, it's not as if he was a general devising battle plans now was it??

At the end of the day be it Barry or McCain who becomes the next president, none of them is going to be devising military planning, that will be your joint chiefs.

Texpat

voted by the majority....


Let's be honest here

You cavemen twats don't vote for anybody anyway, so the comparison is mute to begin with.

Americans vote for a person, Thais and Poms vote for an ideal. (II think I can, I think I can.) Retards group together. Please don't think the comparison is lost ...

Boon Mee

And they won't be happy until America is the Socialist-paradise that Euro-weenieland is either..

flash

That has to be one of your funniest posts to date, well done

Texpat

News flash -- dumbass Poms as Thais are the same. The populace can't be trusted with the vote. I used to think the Brits were equals.

Damn, how wrong can a man be? Dumb cunts keep their privy ass wipes in charge.

Why would America ever think the twats were friendly? I've certainly learned a valuable lesson.

flash

another late night with drunken Tex

Boon Mee

I've got loads of pommie friends...but I also watch my back!

lom

Yeah, don't disappoint his parents who gave him that leader gene.
After all, he was born for no other purpose than becoming president.

britmaveric

Anyone who chooses to stay in a POW Camp until his mates come home with him, should be considered a hero of the highest order. Easy thing would have been to sell them out and go home - one courageous lad to do the opposite.

Accidental Ajarn

Gallup Daily: McCain Moves Ahead, 48% to 45%

http://www.gallup.com/home.aspx

zedhex

Perhaps that we actually lived under her rule and experienced the reality of it, unlike all the fools in the US who swallowed the usual right-wing-biased media line - and now you think you know more about Thatcher than we do.

Just keep on ignoring reality BoonMee, you are obviously very good at it.

nidhogg

I think there is little doubt to be honest that mccain is a person of great personal strength and integrity. That being said however, I do believe he would be a very poor choice for two reasons.

Firstly he is rash. I saw the interview with that church guy (both barak and mccain). McCain pretty much answered evrything immediately. one question in particular stuck in my mind, which was along the lines of "What do you do with evil" - an there were three choices (can't recall exactly) - Mccain without hesitation answered "destroy it" (one of the choices), and I think that was tyical mccain - answer first - and maybe think after - even along the lines of - who is it that is categorizing this event as "evil". There are very, very few issues in the world that a pure black and white, good and evil and a leader of a country as powerful as america cannot rashly decide something without first considering, at the least, who is setting the agenda.

Couple that with a very well known bad temper (point two), and you have some one who really, really should not have their finger on the button.

His running partner also scares me. She strikes me as someone who would not change their mind come hell or high water. Deeply religious people (of whatever stripe) are capable of great damage when in power, and god forbid (to use a phrase) that she ever takes over as number one (a real possibility).

On the other side, I agree that much of what Obama offers lacks substance. However, that being said, I think he is the type of guy to think things through rather than rush in. maybe even talk to people and find solutions to problems that don't involve the American army invading countries.

All in all, I would feel safer with Obamas finger on the button that Mccains.

AntRobertson

This is the same guy that took an admirable stance against the Administrations 'enhanced interrogation' policies on the grounds that they constituted torture - something he had personally experienced - but then later recanted his position when it was made clear to him that Bush & Co. wouldn't support his run for President.

Respect? Integrity? I've looked them up, what dictionary are you using?

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Bung

You have got to be kidding right?

Beckham, Rooney, Big Brother twats, Pop singers. etc, etc.

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