Surely - except for fundamentalist Christians, neo-cons, fat-cats who've made millions from Halliburton, the banks, and other such repositories of GW Bush-Dick Cheney 'goodwill' for the looters - US citizens must be feeling very angry indeed about a hundred issues, amongst them very prominently are:

A: The state of the US economy (and the effect of this on their personal incomes);

B: The tattered reputation of the US as a democracy - the 'banana republic' reputation it has been saddled with under GW Bush and Gang;

(and a whole lot of other stuff - but US citizens would surely do a much better job than I can in listing and articulating these issues).

Now Obama has to learn how to choose just those issues that the average white US citizen is feeling most infuriated about, just those things are are making him/her feel most insecure.

Then the Obama-Biden campaign must learn to express that outrage in words that will simply blow GW Bush and his Criminal Gang away once and for all - and will also blow away the putative heirs of GW Bush, John McBush and Sarah Palin.

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I should record that I did NOT watch the 1st Obama-McCain debate on TV, due to time differences between India where I am and the US. In my comments in that post, I was going by what I had read about the debate in the news and on the Internet this morning.

So perhaps I was mistaken in my assessment that "Obama will lose if he continues...." - but I still hold that he MUST show the outrage that people around the world feel against GW Bush (and consequently against Bush's heir McBush as well).

[The Prime Minister of India, Dr Manmohan Singh, said to GW Bush on the sidelines of the UN Assembly "We Indians all love you..." (or words to that effect).

[Entirely false! GW Bush is a highly loathed animal in India - even by many of the middle class. (I guess he's not quite as loathsome to Indians as a pig is to Muslims and Jews, but surely he is nearly there!) I have so written to Dr Singh - who is both a learned man and generally a very decent sort of person, expressing my outrage about his love-song in India's name to GW Bush. (Probably it will not even be read by him)].

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1) GW Bush and Gang LIED to US citizens to get them to morally approve their dirty little war on Iraq

2) GW Bush and Gang LIED to the US Congress to get them to fund this dirty little war in Iraq

3) GW Bush and Gang enabled Halliburton and others to loot US funds by giving them 'no-bid' in Iraq

4) GW Bush and Gang lied to the world at the UN to get support for this dirty Iraq War (they didn't get much approval except from the 'Coalition Of The Willing' - but that's another issue

5) GW Bush and Gang brought unutterable shame on the US through their policies that enabled Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo

6) GW Bush and Gang outed Valerie Plame to get their own back on her husband...

7) GW Bush and Gang proved themselves utter incompetent to govern the US when they allowed New Orleans to suffer through Katrina - GW Bush actually congratulated Mike Brown for "doin' a great job, Brownie!"

8) GW Bush and Gang wasted $ 600 BILLION on GW Bush's petty little war against Saddam...

9) GW Bush and Gang now want another $ 700 BILLION to enable Wall Street sharpsters to play with the US and the world's economy!

...

(etc, etc, etc)

US citizens right now hugely DISAPPROVE of the way GW Bush and Gang have been maladministering the USA

GW Bush approves of John McCain...

John McCain approves of GW Bush...

...

So how come Obama didn't properly show up John McCain+Sarah Palin at the debate?

Does he want to lose this election that is "his to win or lose"?

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John McCain has been accused of bizarre behaviour in this run-up to his first debate with Barack Obama...

...but US citizens did it first! They accepted GW Bush as President in 2000 and then again in 2004!!

That was extremely bizarre behaviour both times around - and the costs to the world have been huge.

I wonder what bizarre behaviour will US citizens show us now... will they choose McCain+Palin and send the world further down the road to disaster?

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"GIMME ONLY $ 700 BILLION MORE!"

-- George W. Bush

PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

-- GSC

As Bush himself said two days after the election, in a press conference on November 4, 2004:

"And it's one of the wonderful -- it's like earning capital. You asked, do I feel free. Let me put it to you this way: I earned capital in the campaign, political capital, and now I intend to spend it. It is my style. That's what happened in the -- after the 2000 election, I earned some capital. I've earned capital in this election -- and I'm going to spend it..."

I wonder when are US citizens going to start asking GW Bush, War Criminal, some real hard questions!

-- GSC