Comments on: It’s not easy being President in waiting

By: Nick McGivney

Nick McGivney — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 23:43:38 +0000

No point in giving the man an easy ride. If things go well for him, he’ll head up a very powerful but relatively small country and he’ll have plenty of gung-ho assholes pushing him to keep the status quo of dominion. He’ll need to survive this petty nonsense with ease if he’s to do good work undoing years of bad work.

By: Robert

Robert — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 20:43:33 +0000

The ‘party of permanent government’ comment might apply to Republican Presidents being elected more often…..but in the US the executive is only one of 3 branches and the Democrats control the Congress most of the time.

By: James McInerney

James McInerney — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 12:46:07 +0000

Hi Robert. The ‘party of permanent government’ comment is one that is often used in Britain about the conservative party - simply that for the majority of the time, the Republican Party is in power in the US, only being pushed out of power when the public is tired of them from time to time. In the last 40 years in the US there have been 7 terms of office held by Republicans and 3 held by Democrats, so you could almost say that the Republican party is the party of permanent government.

By: Robert

Robert — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 11:43:35 +0000

I enlarged the photo to get a better look. Why am I not surprised that the word “atheist” is misspelled?
In my local newspaper, there are letters to the editor which falsely claim that Obama is a Muslim. This is done,of course,to make him appear evil to the Christian fundamentalists in my area. For my part, I would like him more if he were Muslim because then his feelings on abortion would be more akin to mine.
I don’t understand your comment about Republicans being the “party of permanent government”.

By: James

James — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 14:43:28 +0000

It is indeed cheap, FMC.

By: fatmammycat

fatmammycat — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 13:48:50 +0000

That’s a nasty poster, derogatory and cheap.