was catching up on some US election news the other day, and came across one of those /facepalm moments inch:

I tend to listen to both sides of the story.. well I say both sides.. Fox news vs every other news channel in the US :P

Can't remember the guy's name, but it was definitely a fox news presenter.. He was talking about the democrats and recapping on some debate they had had. He acctually tried to be diplomatic and say something seemingly pro democrat but came up with this: inch:

"What you have to realise is, the democrats may make history this year. This could be the first time ever, that we have either a woman president or a black president. Personally I think it's great. I dunno about you "....." (can't remember his co-presenters name), but I applaud the democrats putting two candidates from minority groups forward for candidacy."


Not even sure it even registered with anyone at fox tho, cos they didn't even try to correct him, or weren't at all taken aback! inch:

Congratulations ladies ur a 3,338,781,960 strong minority! or 151,912,323 in the US..

I despair sometimes :S


EDIT: back to the topic tho

I have to say I rly hope it's a democrat this time.. Not just because I'm liberal myself, but for the sake of you lot over there in the US. thing is over here, even your democrats sound conservative! :P (well ok, not quite, but nearly)
I get a lot of feedback from my brother (who lives in the states), and he's considered a democrat by most of his friends over there, but whenever I come to visit they have a wale of a time ^^ I must seem nearly communist to his friends inch: - don't think I made it any better by acctually wearing a CCCP T-shirt when I was talking to them ^^ (oh yeah.. and PS: don't wear that when ur going through immigration- the guy there was kind enough to say "So you might want to put a sweater on" - think had it been anyone else I would have faced deportation :S )

When did the word "Social" become a bad thing? I see countless selfless acts on some of your TV channels about people helping each other, simply because they have no money or no home or whatnot. But yet somehow, when it comes to politics, these same people vote for those that most damage the ones they are trying to help. I dunno maybe it's just my point of view but you guys could benefit from some left-ish policies.
Minimum wage (at an acceptable level), Free health care, free schooling/university (altho here in England they are moving away from that :S ) etc

Actually this applies to pretty much every country in the world, I'm just mentioning it as the elections is relevant in the US atm.