November 5, 2008
Despite my disagreement with some of his policies, I find the highly likely election of Barack Obama to the Presidency of the United States a thrilling event. Never has an election been so symbolic of change, but also carrying such huge expectations for the future. In one’s lifetime, you witne...
go to article »November 2, 2008
I blogged a couple of days ago about what Matt Robson said on Back Benches about John McCain: As I said at the time: They were talking about the US election and Obama and McCain. Wallace Chapman mentioned that McCain was around the same age as Jim Anderton, and Robson’s nasty littlre retort was: B...
go to article »October 21, 2008
The massively read liberal leaning Huffington Post has done a feature on dirty elections. They say that the US election is actually very clean compared to others: But as far as campaigns, we don’t know dirty. Picking recent and ongoing campaigns in Nigeria, Russia, Austria, New Zealand, Taiwa...
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Colin Powell has endorsed Barack Obama, and even before that happened Obama has a commanding lead not just nationally, but in the state polls. There were 18 states in 2004 that had a margin of victory of less than 10%. Every single marginal state, except Arkansas, has Obama in the lead in state poll...
go to article »October 20, 2008
Was on TVNZ’s Breakfast this morning chatting about social networking in the election campaign. Went okay but said one stupid thing - that Obama had raised more money on the Internet than NZ’s GDP. The moment I said it I realised I was out by a couple of orders of magnitude. Recieved a...
go to article »October 14, 2008
Sent in by a reader. Tags: Humour, Sarah Palin ...
go to article »October 9, 2008
Down to 60c. Farmers will be happy but this means more price increases for most Kiwis. Tags: Exchange Rates ...
go to article »October 7, 2008
OJ Simpson has been found guilty of armed robbery and now faces life in prison. I guess there is karma in the universe. Of course being in prison means he won’t be able to continue his hunt for Nicole’s killer so I guess that will remain a “mystery”! Tags: OJ Simpson ...
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George W Bush has signed the $700 billion bailout bill into law within an hour of the House of Representatives passing it 263 to 171. I guess he didn’t want to risk them changing their minds! 26 Republicans and 32 Deomcrats who voted no last time, voted yes this time. Tags: Credit Crisis, Ge...
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