The US election came and went, and now it’s time to laugh ourselves stupid at those who predicted an overwhelming win for McCain.

Political Lizard:

So sa (sic) we start this election We (sic) see that Obama starts off with approximately 36.8 million votes and McCain starts with 36.6 million votes. This is a 200,000 vote lead prior to independents being included. If these voters are evenly split We (sic) could have a situation where one candidate wins the popular vote and another wins the electoral college. A split in independents favors McCain. If McCain maintains his slight lead among independent (sic) he wins similar to 2004.

ChronWatch:

Obama’s biggest problem is that the majority of Americans racially are white. Even Hispanics, racially, are white. Once you get by all the usual politically correct blather about race, the likelihood that whites will vote for Obama is slim to none when they get in the privacy of the voting booth.

That is why John McCain, unless he selects a serial killer as his vice president running mate, is likely to be the next President of the United States of America.

When queeried (sic) on what he meant by this, the intrepid poster expanded upon this thesis:

The vast majority of homosexuals are atheist and liberal. That is a
fact. Also journalism is a favorite career path of homosexuals and
socialists.
Journalists are like lawyers. They create their own job via paper and
bullshit. Both are human barnacles on society that produce nothing of value.

Edward David Gil (cached, original deleted):

Here is how “the penny dropped” and I suddenly realized that McCain will beat Obama decisively in this November’s presidential election (as unlikely as it may seem now in July): it was when I read that the city of Denver has been giving the Democratic National Committee’s “Host Committee” members a pass on the city’s tax on gasoline for about four months, before it was disclosed.

Daily AntiKos

Reasons why:
1. Conservatives don’t participate in polls.
2. People have felt intimidated into saying they’re supporting Obama.
3. Sarah Palin will produce a turnout of the base as never seen before.
4. Coal states have shifted toward McCain.
5. God is conservative.

Owned. Every last one.

In a major boost to Barack Obama’s quest for the White House, a global survey has revealed that Australians will overwhelmingly vote Democrat at the November 4 presidential election. 76% of Aussie respondents indicated support for Senator Obama, with only 10% in the camp of Republican candidate, John McCain. (It is a mystery for whom the other 14% will vote. David Koch perhaps?) The problem is, of course, that Australians won’t be voting for the United States Prez in a couple of weeks because we’re, you know, Australian. So why is it that the same survey reckons 85% of Australians are paying attention to another country’s election campaign five months out (at the time of the survey), when 85% of Australians barely think about their own country’s elections until polling day?

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I have been copping it from all angles of late from neo-con bloggers, probably because a few days back I dared point out how inept and unqualified GOP vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin looks. And haven’t the piercing rebuttals been coming thick and fast. A ’stoopid conservative’ rushed to reveal the grammar error that never was. JF Beck, unhappy that I’d taken shots at his VPILF, was merciless in his deconstruction of my joke about John F. Kennedy reading Sweet Valley High (a chronological impossibility, says JF, so I must be dumber than Palin herself). He also pointed out the fallacy of my claim that one can have “empathy for the environment” - a fair criticism, one I hope JF extends to the “war on terror”, a phrase that appears in his blog numerous times.

The ever-boring Currency Lad picked up on JF’s final retort: my mention, in the context of Palin’s naivete, of John F. Kennedy and the Cuban missile crisis. A paraphrasing of CL’s febrile historical revisionism runs something like this:

Kennedy didn’t solve the crisis you know and anyway he actually caused it and also did you know that he endangered the United States by putting Jupiter missiles into Turkey and hey, hey, hey he also tried to kill Castro with a poison milkshake and that’s, like, really bad, and did you also know that he took drugs, slept with lots of girls and his daddy got him into power and that his book Profiles of Courage was plagiarised and was only a best-seller because Joe Snr. bought all the copies and and and… <snip>

CL, who claims a PhD in ecclesiastical history, seems to have more problems with the secular stuff. In any case, my initial comment was about how Kennedy - himself a graduate of real History - handled having pointy Soviet nuclear thingies in his backyard, as compared to how a future President Palin might deal with such a problem. All eyes were on the VP debate earlier today for some insight into such a proposition.

Palin’s performance was jittery and sporadic but, on the whole, better than her woeful output from the Katie Couric fireside chat. She sounded stronger, if a little hackneyed and a lot rehearsed, when she described herself as a “Washington outsider”, a down-home type who knows the pains and perils of ordinary voters. On matters of foreign policy - Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, Israel - she was helplessly outpointed against Biden, who has 35 years of experience in the Senate. The whole thing was at best a draw, at worst a win on points to Biden - but given Palin’s recent efforts, that’s probably better than many conservatives were expecting.

Still, the debate telecast will give JF Beck some good entertainment tonight. If only he had a cat to watch it with…

UPDATE

A kind reader has kindly directed me to Sarah Palin’s Facebook page, kinda.