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	<title>Comments on: Rundle08: Joe the Plumber campaigns. What&#8217;s next? Fluoride?</title>
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		<title>By: David Sanderson</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/10/29/rundle08-joe-the-plumber-campaigns-whats-next-fluoride/#comment-23771</link>
		<dc:creator>David Sanderson</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>You&#039;re a class act JamesK, and a raving loony to boot. The &#039;xx&#039; is a nice touch - very tasteful and discreet.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You&#8217;re a class act JamesK, and a raving loony to boot. The &#8216;xx&#8217; is a nice touch - very tasteful and discreet.</p>
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		<title>By: eric a. blair</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/10/29/rundle08-joe-the-plumber-campaigns-whats-next-fluoride/#comment-23772</link>
		<dc:creator>eric a. blair</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>heheheh jameskkk - old george would be turning in his grave if he knew people like yourself enjoyed his work, maybe if you truly read what he had to say you&#039;d see him as a leftist &quot;buffoon&quot; now there&#039;s a word right out of the alexander downer&#039;s guide to social effrontery! xx</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>heheheh jameskkk - old george would be turning in his grave if he knew people like yourself enjoyed his work, maybe if you truly read what he had to say you&#8217;d see him as a leftist &#8220;buffoon&#8221; now there&#8217;s a word right out of the alexander downer&#8217;s guide to social effrontery! xx</p>
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		<title>By: Lee J</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/10/29/rundle08-joe-the-plumber-campaigns-whats-next-fluoride/#comment-23773</link>
		<dc:creator>Lee J</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Well written,covering a lot of ground, two beers for the man, Cheers!!</description>
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		<title>By: nick</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/10/29/rundle08-joe-the-plumber-campaigns-whats-next-fluoride/#comment-23774</link>
		<dc:creator>nick</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>just remember:  it ain&#039;t ovah &#039;til it&#039;s OVAH!!!...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;NEVER underestimate the ever present, basic, silent yet extant, underlying bigotry of many americans...  we can but hope that enough of the (in the opinions of john james and jamesK) &quot;left-wing nuts&quot; outnumber the bigots and the simply stoopid that make up the &quot;right-wing nuts&quot; who want more of the same...  THEN we might have something to celebrate.  so, as the saying goes:  don&#039;t count your chickens...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>just remember:  it ain&#8217;t ovah &#8216;til it&#8217;s OVAH!!!&#8230;</p>
<p>NEVER underestimate the ever present, basic, silent yet extant, underlying bigotry of many americans&#8230;  we can but hope that enough of the (in the opinions of john james and jamesK) &#8220;left-wing nuts&#8221; outnumber the bigots and the simply stoopid that make up the &#8220;right-wing nuts&#8221; who want more of the same&#8230;  THEN we might have something to celebrate.  so, as the saying goes:  don&#8217;t count your chickens&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: Lucy</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/10/29/rundle08-joe-the-plumber-campaigns-whats-next-fluoride/#comment-23775</link>
		<dc:creator>Lucy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Yep, beer anytime you want it... the para on the &quot;deep stupidity of populism&quot; was worth the annual subscription fee. The notion that because someone is Middle American and believes X, X must necessarily be true (or at least worth taking seriously) is offensive to anyone with even a basic concept of what representative government is supposed to be about. There is no intrinsic reason why conservatism should be so intellectually vacuous, and the fact that the Republican party is losing its brightest defenders should worry its leadership more than any poll result.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yep, beer anytime you want it&#8230; the para on the &#8220;deep stupidity of populism&#8221; was worth the annual subscription fee. The notion that because someone is Middle American and believes X, X must necessarily be true (or at least worth taking seriously) is offensive to anyone with even a basic concept of what representative government is supposed to be about. There is no intrinsic reason why conservatism should be so intellectually vacuous, and the fact that the Republican party is losing its brightest defenders should worry its leadership more than any poll result.</p>
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		<title>By: John D</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/10/29/rundle08-joe-the-plumber-campaigns-whats-next-fluoride/#comment-23776</link>
		<dc:creator>John D</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;Rough trade pick up going crazy in the green room..&quot; ! I love it. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Guy and First Dog. Worth the price of admission alone!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span class="dquo">&#8220;</span>Rough trade pick up going crazy in the green room..&#8221; ! I love it. </p>
<p>Guy and First Dog. Worth the price of admission alone!</p>
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		<title>By: Daniel</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/10/29/rundle08-joe-the-plumber-campaigns-whats-next-fluoride/#comment-23777</link>
		<dc:creator>Daniel</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>nobody wants to respond to your dumb posts because you are a horrible person. stop posting jamesk</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>nobody wants to respond to your dumb posts because you are a horrible person. stop posting jamesk</p>
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		<title>By: John James</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/10/29/rundle08-joe-the-plumber-campaigns-whats-next-fluoride/#comment-23778</link>
		<dc:creator>John James</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>This article and some of the postings are a great advertisement for the Loony Left, their &#039;world view&#039; and the suppositions that underpin it.&lt;br /&gt;1. &quot;Barack Obama... regards Israel as a greatest ally and permanent friend&quot;. Of course. He just wants to sit down with the guy who keeps saying that Israel is a cancer and, you know the cure. Just a poor, misunderstood old Shiite. Those silly, bloody old Zionists.&lt;br /&gt;2. &quot;Me, I suspect the guy was from Mossad&quot; Bloody Jews, again! Those Zionists are a wart on the arse of progress, as every good Leftie knows..well, at least thinks, but we dont shout about it!&lt;br /&gt;3. &quot;Plugging away at this socialism stuff&quot;. Hell, no-one should mention the word, &#039;cause Obama sure isnt. And we dont want to scare the horses. Just coax them in, nice and gentle.&lt;br /&gt;4. &quot;She has a set of beliefs and why disturb them with facts&quot; Coming from a guy( ?the Guy ) whose heroes are Robert Mugabe, the Vietcong and Fidel, that&#039;s a big call.&lt;br /&gt;5. Then there&#039;s Lucy&#039;s &quot;what representative government is supposed to be about&quot;. Whenever the Left talk about &quot;representative government&quot;, you gotta start worrying. I always picture the famous photograph of the lone protester in front of the tank in Tiannamen Square.&lt;br /&gt;6. Finall,Dave Sanderson&#039;s &quot;there really is a god..&quot; crack at Sarah. These are the same people who&#039;ll happily countenance the killing of the most innocent and helpless of all human beings and tell you its all about choice and what a dill Sarah is to have allowed her diabled baby to live. I think it was Voltaire who said &quot; if a watch demands the existence of a watchmaker and the Universe doesnt demand the existence of a Supreme architect, I conset to be called a fool.&quot; The Scritures say it more succintly, in Proverbs, &quot;The fool says in his heart there is no God&quot; Fortunately, we are not handing out prizes for foolishness.  </description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This article and some of the postings are a great advertisement for the Loony Left, their &#8216;world view&#8217; and the suppositions that underpin it.<br />1. &#8220;Barack Obama&#8230; regards Israel as a greatest ally and permanent friend&#8221;. Of course. He just wants to sit down with the guy who keeps saying that Israel is a cancer and, you know the cure. Just a poor, misunderstood old Shiite. Those silly, bloody old Zionists.<br />2. &#8220;Me, I suspect the guy was from Mossad&#8221; Bloody Jews, again! Those Zionists are a wart on the arse of progress, as every good Leftie knows..well, at least thinks, but we dont shout about it!<br />3. &#8220;Plugging away at this socialism stuff&#8221;. Hell, no-one should mention the word, &#8216;cause Obama sure isnt. And we dont want to scare the horses. Just coax them in, nice and gentle.<br />4. &#8220;She has a set of beliefs and why disturb them with facts&#8221; Coming from a guy( ?the Guy ) whose heroes are Robert Mugabe, the Vietcong and Fidel, that&#8217;s a big call.<br />5. Then there&#8217;s Lucy&#8217;s &#8220;what representative government is supposed to be about&#8221;. Whenever the Left talk about &#8220;representative government&#8221;, you gotta start worrying. I always picture the famous photograph of the lone protester in front of the tank in Tiannamen Square.<br />6. Finall,Dave Sanderson&#8217;s &#8220;there really is a god..&#8221; crack at Sarah. These are the same people who&#8217;ll happily countenance the killing of the most innocent and helpless of all human beings and tell you its all about choice and what a dill Sarah is to have allowed her diabled baby to live. I think it was Voltaire who said &#8221; if a watch demands the existence of a watchmaker and the Universe doesnt demand the existence of a Supreme architect, I conset to be called a fool.&#8221; The Scritures say it more succintly, in Proverbs, &#8220;The fool says in his heart there is no God&#8221; Fortunately, we are not handing out prizes for foolishness.</p>
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		<title>By: James</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/10/29/rundle08-joe-the-plumber-campaigns-whats-next-fluoride/#comment-23779</link>
		<dc:creator>James</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The Ole Walnuts imagery continues to amuse and delight. It is so funny it really does hurt.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I watched that Shepard Smith interview this morning and it was a hoot. You know when you have crossed over when even the tedious and self-important HuffPo starts to sing your praises. Bravo Shep.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, Joe the P and Sarah P have gone &quot;off message&quot; ? What was the message in the first place? McCain and his inner circle must bear full responsibility for this embarrassing end to his dreadful campaign. If Sarah Palin can allegedly &quot;go rogue&quot;  and thumb her nose at the &quot;might &amp; power&quot; of the entire RNC (after all of nine weeks on the trail) , then it ain&#039;t her fault, it is theirs. Is anybody in control? talk about Walnuts delegating responsibility away to the &quot;staff&quot;. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Also on that Shepard Smith person, I read recently that FOX re-signed him for a $8 million contract so he can continue to NOT give a political opinion. Suspect he will be BIG in an Obama Administration for FOX.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And thanks Guy for continuing to remind me of the likes of Carly Fiorina - surely an early nomination for Political Hall of Infamy?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Great stuff.    &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;  </description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Ole Walnuts imagery continues to amuse and delight. It is so funny it really does hurt.</p>
<p>I watched that Shepard Smith interview this morning and it was a hoot. You know when you have crossed over when even the tedious and self-important HuffPo starts to sing your praises. Bravo Shep.</p>
<p>So, Joe the P and Sarah P have gone &#8220;off message&#8221; ? What was the message in the first place? McCain and his inner circle must bear full responsibility for this embarrassing end to his dreadful campaign. If Sarah Palin can allegedly &#8220;go rogue&#8221;  and thumb her nose at the &#8220;might &#038; power&#8221; of the entire RNC (after all of nine weeks on the trail) , then it ain&#8217;t her fault, it is theirs. Is anybody in control? talk about Walnuts delegating responsibility away to the &#8220;staff&#8221;. </p>
<p>Also on that Shepard Smith person, I read recently that FOX re-signed him for a $8 million contract so he can continue to NOT give a political opinion. Suspect he will be BIG in an Obama Administration for FOX.</p>
<p>And thanks Guy for continuing to remind me of the likes of Carly Fiorina - surely an early nomination for Political Hall of Infamy?</p>
<p>Great stuff.    </p>
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		<title>By: JamesK</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/10/29/rundle08-joe-the-plumber-campaigns-whats-next-fluoride/#comment-23780</link>
		<dc:creator>JamesK</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Your name is  an insult to a great writer and you are a boorish buffoon.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Why don&#039;t u go hug and xx urself you inane lame leftist lackey</description>
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<p>Why don&#8217;t u go hug and xx urself you inane lame leftist lackey</p>
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		<title>By: eric a. blair</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/10/29/rundle08-joe-the-plumber-campaigns-whats-next-fluoride/#comment-23781</link>
		<dc:creator>eric a. blair</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Spot on again Guy ! Beers in Adelaide anytime!  As for Palin, she was i/v the other day on terrorism and was asked if people who blow up abortion clinics are terrorists - she refused to say yes but went onto this claptrap about Bill Ayers - the McPalin campaign are grasping at any straws they can to bring down the democrats - not that I&#039;d vote for the big O but it sure is the lesser of two evils. The article the other day on Voting Machines is spot on and has been documented with scary recent incidents and with the complete farce that was Ohio last year - check out Greg Palast&#039;s book Armed Madhouse and his new collaboration with JFK Jr &#039;Steal Back Your Vote&quot;. Speaking of madhouses, John James you must get some good internet allocation where you are. You have to tell us more about those &quot;Scritures&quot; and  as for the statement  &quot;These are the same people who&#039;ll happily countenance the killing of the most innocent and helpless of all human beings and tell you its all about choice&quot; Damn straight it&#039;s about choice nutbag and has my lovely partner would like passed on to you, &quot;Get you&#039;re misogynistic bullshit beliefs out of my uterus&quot;. keep the crackers coming JJ the stains on the screen from your head so far up your arse are a classic. xx  </description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Spot on again Guy ! Beers in Adelaide anytime!  As for Palin, she was i/v the other day on terrorism and was asked if people who blow up abortion clinics are terrorists - she refused to say yes but went onto this claptrap about Bill Ayers - the McPalin campaign are grasping at any straws they can to bring down the democrats - not that I&#8217;d vote for the big O but it sure is the lesser of two evils. The article the other day on Voting Machines is spot on and has been documented with scary recent incidents and with the complete farce that was Ohio last year - check out Greg Palast&#8217;s book Armed Madhouse and his new collaboration with JFK Jr &#8216;Steal Back Your Vote&#8221;. Speaking of madhouses, John James you must get some good internet allocation where you are. You have to tell us more about those &#8220;Scritures&#8221; and  as for the statement  &#8220;These are the same people who&#8217;ll happily countenance the killing of the most innocent and helpless of all human beings and tell you its all about choice&#8221; Damn straight it&#8217;s about choice nutbag and has my lovely partner would like passed on to you, &#8220;Get you&#8217;re misogynistic bullshit beliefs out of my uterus&#8221;. keep the crackers coming JJ the stains on the screen from your head so far up your arse are a classic. xx</p>
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		<title>By: JamesK</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/10/29/rundle08-joe-the-plumber-campaigns-whats-next-fluoride/#comment-23782</link>
		<dc:creator>JamesK</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>David Sanderson is feeling left out of his personal fiefdom...playing leftist pseudo intellectual Fabianist to Rundle&#039;s churlish Bolshevist. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As usual however you have not made an intelligent nor an original remark thus far.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Try actually reading the comment I responded to you twit.... </description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>David Sanderson is feeling left out of his personal fiefdom&#8230;playing leftist pseudo intellectual Fabianist to Rundle&#8217;s churlish Bolshevist. </p>
<p>As usual however you have not made an intelligent nor an original remark thus far.</p>
<p>Try actually reading the comment I responded to you twit&#8230;.</p>
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		<title>By: eric a. blair</title>
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		<dc:creator>eric a. blair</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>yes JamesK - all class mate compared with christian nazi shite that spews forth from JJ and yourself! hugsxx</description>
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		<title>By: mike smith</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/10/29/rundle08-joe-the-plumber-campaigns-whats-next-fluoride/#comment-23784</link>
		<dc:creator>mike smith</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The one thing I&#039;ll miss about the US election is no more columns on it from Guy.  Are you compiling them into a book, even an eBook would do.  (I suppose I could trawl the gmail archives but that&#039;d be work)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The one thing I&#8217;ll miss about the US election is no more columns on it from Guy.  Are you compiling them into a book, even an eBook would do.  (I suppose I could trawl the gmail archives but that&#8217;d be work)</p>
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		<title>By: George Beaton</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/10/29/rundle08-joe-the-plumber-campaigns-whats-next-fluoride/#comment-23785</link>
		<dc:creator>George Beaton</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I would buy Guy Rundle a drink if I met him, whether he turns out to be right or wrong about his predictions of Joe the Plumbers future assertions</description>
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		<title>By: David Sanderson</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/10/29/rundle08-joe-the-plumber-campaigns-whats-next-fluoride/#comment-23786</link>
		<dc:creator>David Sanderson</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>David Brooks, the NYT&#039;s house conservative, describes Palin as a cancer on the Republican Party. Nevertheless, party dimwits think that she will be a great 2012 candidate. She probably is too dumb to make it that far but if she did it would be a godsend to the Democrats who could confidently look forward to three presidential terms. Maybe Palin is right - there really is a god and Palin&#039;s party ascendancy would be the proof. </description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>David Brooks, the NYT&#8217;s house conservative, describes Palin as a cancer on the Republican Party. Nevertheless, party dimwits think that she will be a great 2012 candidate. She probably is too dumb to make it that far but if she did it would be a godsend to the Democrats who could confidently look forward to three presidential terms. Maybe Palin is right - there really is a god and Palin&#8217;s party ascendancy would be the proof.</p>
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		<title>By: David Sanderson</title>
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		<dc:creator>David Sanderson</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>JamesK and John James - two of the finest cranks in all Christendom. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It would be a waste of time and space to deal with all of their myopic cant but I I&#039;ll answer one point. Palin&#039;s choice to have a Downs Syndrome child has nothing to do with the apprehension her candidacy causes across the political spectrum. Her dire lack of knowledge, her lack of intellectual curiosity or training, her dreadfully confused and malicious talk are what make her such a woeful vice-presidential, and hence presidential, candidate.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It will be fun to watch McCain and his team unload on her after the election. McCain will not want the lasting legacy of his failed presidential run to be the ascendancy of Palin within the party. He will systematically destroy her - he&#039;s a destructive old bugger but it&#039;ll be for a good cause this time.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; </description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>JamesK and John James - two of the finest cranks in all Christendom. </p>
<p>It would be a waste of time and space to deal with all of their myopic cant but I I&#8217;ll answer one point. Palin&#8217;s choice to have a Downs Syndrome child has nothing to do with the apprehension her candidacy causes across the political spectrum. Her dire lack of knowledge, her lack of intellectual curiosity or training, her dreadfully confused and malicious talk are what make her such a woeful vice-presidential, and hence presidential, candidate.</p>
<p>It will be fun to watch McCain and his team unload on her after the election. McCain will not want the lasting legacy of his failed presidential run to be the ascendancy of Palin within the party. He will systematically destroy her - he&#8217;s a destructive old bugger but it&#8217;ll be for a good cause this time.</p>
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		<title>By: paddy</title>
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		<dc:creator>paddy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Buy you a beer?&lt;br /&gt;We&#039;ll buy you the whole bloody pub man.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;God knows what we&#039;ll do when it&#039;s over and they cut off your oxygen.&lt;br /&gt;Meanwhile, just be careful with that ether and keep tappin away.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Buy you a beer?<br />We&#8217;ll buy you the whole bloody pub man.</p>
<p>God knows what we&#8217;ll do when it&#8217;s over and they cut off your oxygen.<br />Meanwhile, just be careful with that ether and keep tappin away.</p>
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		<title>By: K Smith</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/10/29/rundle08-joe-the-plumber-campaigns-whats-next-fluoride/#comment-23789</link>
		<dc:creator>K Smith</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I&#039;ll buy Guy a beer anytime, (Richmond Melbourne). Keep it up. nearly there.&lt;br /&gt;Looking forward to the book.&lt;br /&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;ll buy Guy a beer anytime, (Richmond Melbourne). Keep it up. nearly there.<br />Looking forward to the book.</p>
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		<title>By: JamesK</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/10/29/rundle08-joe-the-plumber-campaigns-whats-next-fluoride/#comment-23790</link>
		<dc:creator>JamesK</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hark what is that strange, scraping noise?..... why it&#039;s the sound of George Orwell turning in his grave.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All class: &quot;the stains on the screen from your head so far up your arse are a classic&quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Still Guy will probably approve...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hark what is that strange, scraping noise?&#8230;.. why it&#8217;s the sound of George Orwell turning in his grave.</p>
<p>All class: &#8220;the stains on the screen from your head so far up your arse are a classic&#8221;</p>
<p>Still Guy will probably approve&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: skink</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/10/29/rundle08-joe-the-plumber-campaigns-whats-next-fluoride/#comment-23791</link>
		<dc:creator>skink</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I believe that &#039;Sassy&#039; Hesselbeck was a contestant on &#039;Survivor&#039;, rather than &#039;Idol&#039;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;she finished fourth.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;the show was filmed in Australia during the last Presidential election, and Elizabeth forgot to register to absentee vote.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am not sure how this qualifies her to be resident right-wing kneejerker on The View.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You should study her a bit, she&#039;s almost as dumb and opinionated as Palin, and good comedy value&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I believe that &#8216;Sassy&#8217; Hesselbeck was a contestant on &#8216;Survivor&#8217;, rather than &#8216;Idol&#8217;.</p>
<p>she finished fourth.</p>
<p>the show was filmed in Australia during the last Presidential election, and Elizabeth forgot to register to absentee vote.</p>
<p>I am not sure how this qualifies her to be resident right-wing kneejerker on The View.</p>
<p>You should study her a bit, she&#8217;s almost as dumb and opinionated as Palin, and good comedy value</p>
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		<title>By: Daniel</title>
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		<dc:creator>Daniel</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>hell yeah more words from john james and jamesk i&#039;m not gonna read&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;keep on truckin&#039; you complete lunatics. nobody here respects the dumb bile you vomit out on a daily basis and crikey would be better off if you both stopped posting your dumb sh*t altogether. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;its just getting boring. </description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>hell yeah more words from john james and jamesk i&#8217;m not gonna read</p>
<p>keep on truckin&#8217; you complete lunatics. nobody here respects the dumb bile you vomit out on a daily basis and crikey would be better off if you both stopped posting your dumb sh*t altogether. </p>
<p>its just getting boring.</p>
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		<title>By: JamesK</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/10/29/rundle08-joe-the-plumber-campaigns-whats-next-fluoride/#comment-23793</link>
		<dc:creator>JamesK</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Into the felines&#039; den..........&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Rundle&#039;s &quot;Indeed both Sarah Palin and Joe Wurzelbacher illustrate the desperate delusions and deep stupidity of populism, ...... this celebration of a smug dumbness...&quot;....is a nausea inducing albeit extreme display of a smug leftist rant.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Supposedly, under the Obama tax plan, 95 percent of the American people will get a tax cut and pigs are flying as we speak. Journalism&#039;s nadir has to be its treatment of an average person, Joe The Plumber who had the temerity to ask a tough question of &#039;The Anointed One&#039;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Elaine Lafferty, US correspondent for The Irish Times and a Democrat traveled with Sarah Palin on the campaign trail (rather than inebriated from smoke hazed tv screens in pubs) and she found her far from stupid......&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&quot;Now by “smart,” I don&#039;t refer to a person who is wily or calculating or nimble in the way of certain talented athletes who we admire but suspect don&#039;t really have serious brains in their skulls. I mean, instead, a mind that is thoughtful, curious, with a discernable pattern of associative thinking and insight. Palin asks questions, and probes linkages and logic that bring to mind a quirky law professor I once had. Palin is more than a “quick study”; I&#039;d heard rumors around the campaign of her photographic memory and, frankly, I watched it in action. She sees. She processes. She questions, and only then, she acts. What is often called her “confidence” is actually a rarity in national politics: I saw a woman who knows exactly who she is&quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I would actually like to see a black man as President of the US but if McCain wins it will be because of the arrogance and contemptuous disdain of the average American voter by the radically partisan press and also because he is in fact an excellent candidate (as is Obama).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Rundle is an arrogant tosser with no discernible attributes nor balance to back up his faux bravura. He is but one of, if not the most extreme example of, this woeful excuse for journalism.  &lt;br /&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Into the felines&#8217; den&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.</p>
<p>Rundle&#8217;s &#8220;Indeed both Sarah Palin and Joe Wurzelbacher illustrate the desperate delusions and deep stupidity of populism, &#8230;&#8230; this celebration of a smug dumbness&#8230;&#8221;&#8230;.is a nausea inducing albeit extreme display of a smug leftist rant.</p>
<p>Supposedly, under the Obama tax plan, 95 percent of the American people will get a tax cut and pigs are flying as we speak. Journalism&#8217;s nadir has to be its treatment of an average person, Joe The Plumber who had the temerity to ask a tough question of &#8216;The Anointed One&#8217;.</p>
<p>Elaine Lafferty, US correspondent for The Irish Times and a Democrat traveled with Sarah Palin on the campaign trail (rather than inebriated from smoke hazed tv screens in pubs) and she found her far from stupid&#8230;&#8230;</p>
<p><span class="dquo">&#8220;</span>Now by “smart,” I don&#8217;t refer to a person who is wily or calculating or nimble in the way of certain talented athletes who we admire but suspect don&#8217;t really have serious brains in their skulls. I mean, instead, a mind that is thoughtful, curious, with a discernable pattern of associative thinking and insight. Palin asks questions, and probes linkages and logic that bring to mind a quirky law professor I once had. Palin is more than a “quick study”; I&#8217;d heard rumors around the campaign of her photographic memory and, frankly, I watched it in action. She sees. She processes. She questions, and only then, she acts. What is often called her “confidence” is actually a rarity in national politics: I saw a woman who knows exactly who she is&#8221;</p>
<p>I would actually like to see a black man as President of the US but if McCain wins it will be because of the arrogance and contemptuous disdain of the average American voter by the radically partisan press and also because he is in fact an excellent candidate (as is Obama).</p>
<p>Rundle is an arrogant tosser with no discernible attributes nor balance to back up his faux bravura. He is but one of, if not the most extreme example of, this woeful excuse for journalism.  </p>
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