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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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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Under GW Bush and Gang the US has surely reached its lowest ebb ever as a nation.

In the eyes of the world, the sole military and economic superpower is rapidly tending towards 'Banana Republicanism'.

GW Bush and his Gang of War Criminals did it all!

1) the GW Bush administration squandered $ 600-odd BILLION on Bush's petty little war on Saddam Hussein. Nobel prize-winning economist Joseph E. Stiglitz has estimated that the real costs of GW Bush's little adventure in Iraq will cost the US something like $ 2 TRILLION. (And that was BEFORE the bank meltdown noted next!)

2) Now he wants only $ 700 BILLION to reward Wall Street fat-cats and to enable them play some more with the US's and the world's economies!

3) Under GW Bush, the US has reached its lowest ebb in its reputation in the eyes of the world!

How many hundreds of thousands (or millions?) of US citizens have lost their homes and their savings?

Remember that GW Bush and Gang did it!

Barack Obama has to learn how to give truly OUTRAGED voice to the huge outrage that the average WHITE citizen is sure feeling about all of this! That is what will blow Bush's heirs, McBush & Palin away too!

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I'm not about to hurt myself, bfree4me, thank you for your very kind concern (refer your message of September 27, 2008 04:22 on this thread).

I AM seriously afraid that US citizens may well hurt themselves (and the rest of the world too) by not throwing GW Bush and War Criminal Gang (and their heirs, John McBush+Sarah Palin) out onto history's garbage heap where they properly belong. Had there at least been a serious, effective move towards impeaching GW Bush and throwing them into jail, I would not have been so concerned.

[What is worrisome is the background that we all know: US citizens had re-elected GW Bush in 2004 when it was clear to the rest of the world that he and his Gang were War Criminals, liars and thieves. US citizens also earlier demonstrated extraordinary incompetence to allow GW Bush to stand as POTUS from a disputed election that had huge flaws in it: I do fear that - if Obama now does not adequately capture the outrage that a great many WHITE US citizens must be feeling at GW Bush and the way he and his Gang have pulled the US down into 'Banana Republicanism' - I do fear that US citizens may well 'forget and forgive' and elect McBush and Palin: US citizens have been known to do such incompetent things in the past! US citizens seriously do need to 'get their act together' properly. (No claim whatsoever is made that we in India have 'got our act together' any better than have US citizens; however, our errors and mistakes are by no means anywhere near as expensive for the world as are the mistakes of US citizens)].

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