Tim Barnes

Pretty much every financial forecaster agrees that a global recession is on the way during the course of the next presidency and that kind of thing needs a safe pair of hands, McCain might not be perfect but he has the experience and has the know how to guide the country through the 4 turbulent economic years that are ahead Obama seems a decent guy but with the recession coming whoever takes the presidency is not only going to guide America but is going to guide the whole world economically and there is not time in those circumstances for someone to have a learning curve like Obama

I agree with that, we may be part of Europe and part of a global economy and so on but it is essential we maintain our national identity and our national culture

The bible belt are the most extreme of the conservatives do you really in your wildest dreams see them voting Democrat because McCain is too liberal for them ? anyone who thinks that is totally out of touch with reality, the bible belt would rather eat their own excrement than vote for a democrat so Mc Cain is assured 100% of the bible belt vote albeit in some cases through gritted teeth

While I am in favour of gay rights and gay marriages and so on I would be prepared to accept a government that is less tolerant on those issues if it means a strong economy, free trade, enterprise and low taxes, they benefit 100% of the nation whereas gay rights affect 10% of the nation at the very most so if it means a strong powerful economy and limited gay rights even though I am pro gay rights I would rather have that than a weak economy with high taxes and strong gay rights, if that makes me a fascist then so be it And there is no chance of Huckabee being McCain's running mate, it simply won't happen, Huckabee is popular with inbred gun toting rednecks in the deep south but that is as far as his support goes virtually and tbh there is as much chance of McCain choosing Huckabee as his VP as there is Osama Bin Laden becoming Chief Rabbi, Huckabee only gets a mention at all because he has not pulled out of the race, he barely has more delegates than Mitt Romney who pulled out of the race weeks ago, Romney won states that are much more crucial to McCain so if anyone who stood for GOP nomination was to get VP it would be Romney McCain has a lot of views that make a lot of sense particularly introducing gun control laws banning people with a criminal record from buying guns, the banning of torture of suspects, the closure of the vile Guantanamo Bay camp, allowing stem cell research, committing America to global warming protocols and much more

Huckabee is not a true Republican, he is a religious fruitcake that uses the Republican party to vent his bigotry, he is no more a true Republican than Ian Paisley is a true Tory (the Ulster Unionists are affiiated to the Conservative Party) I believe in the Republican (and Tory) principles of low tax, free market enterprise, capitalism, deregulation, self sufficiency without reliance on welfare, strong police force and so on

A lot less reds than I thought :o interesting stats there

The Sun is known as a gooner paper anyways, even if Wenger was responsible for killing the 5 prostitutes in Ipswich it would defend him to the hilt they are so far up the ass of him and his team of foreigners so this does not surprise me in the slightest, The Sun ignore the fact that Scum's disciplinary record in terms of red cards under Wenger is an absolute disgrace If Eboue had broken the leg of a Birmingham striker on Saturday there would be none of this $h!t

I mean agreement to live by the laws of the land and give up any rights to abide by or expect sharia law in the event of the applicant being a muslim

Obama is a kid in political terms though, while he might be a great orator he does not have the experience and the know how of the workings of capitol hill, he would be very much a puppet himself with his lack of experience, he talks about "change" all the time but has he got the political clout, experience and sharpness to actually bring about this change and get it through the houses or is he just going to be out of his depth politically and be a puppet for special interest groups and so on ? I think the latter He is better off cutting his teeth for 4 years as a VP and standing for president in 2012

But its the same with Tory party members and David Cameron I don't like Cameron he is too far to the left/centre of the party for me whereas my views are much more in line with Thatcher/Tebbit/David Davis/Liam Fox but much as I have misgivings about Cameron I would still vote for him at the next election because I could not bring myself to vote for another party so the Huckabee fans what choice do they have in reality other than to vote McCain ? the only alternative would be to vote democrat and I really see nothing in the democrat manifesto that would attract a protest vote of a Huckabee supporter

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Great to see the forum doing so well :D Even higher next week hopefully ^_^

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I don't think Aerosmith and AC/DC would work, totally different styles particularly in singing but I think would work well with Def Leppard

If you think communism is good do a Google search on Pol Pot and his Khmer Rouge Communist regime in Cambodia and come back and tell me communism is a good thing :)

No black candidates ran for GOP nomination for president so I don't understand your point Condy at an early stage said she had no interest in being president so of course the GOP candidate is going to be white McCain doesn't need Huckabee, Huckabee supporters are traditionally very right wing and are hardly going to vote Democrat just because McCain gets the GOP nomination, McCain doesn't need Huckabee

To make it fair for everyone so that there is no inconsistencies they should bring in the basketball / american football thing where the klaxon goes EXACTLY at the point that the injury time has finished and injury time blowing is out of the hands of the referees, if there is 3 mins of injury time allotted then it should end at exactly 93 mins and if there is a good move going or a corner or whatever then tough titties, the teams have had 90 odd mins to have a good move, time is up, game over

I think this is the key here to the whole thing as Rob said If a pub is well managed and marketed well and puts on stuff like quiz nights and other competitions to get in the punters and the place has a good record of dealing with troublemakers then it should survive without problem Landlords that just open, sit on their arse and wait for punters will have a long wait

Then Eboue should be banned and Gallas as I have seen them make far more malicious intent challenges during the season Your idea would kill football mate, football is a rough tough physical game, if players are going to be banned for long time for hard challenges and going for 50-50 balls then we might as well just ban tackling altogether and give players free runs on goal I was bought up in the era of watching Ron Harris, Dave Mc Kay, Billy Bremner, Norman Hunter, Tommy Smith and players like them and hard tackling even brutal tackling was part and parcel of the game You cant wrap players in cotton wool, injuries will always occur in a physical contact sport like football Ban a guy for the season for a hard challenge with no malicious intent and the game as we know it will die

Not at all, everyone loves a fairytale, I am old enough to remember Graham Taylor taking Watford from the old Div 4 up to what is now the Premiership, I loved seeing Harry Bassett take Wimbledon from non league football to the very top flight, football thrives on those sort of things but I don't think football is a winner when a club like Newcastle gets relegated Others have given examples of Leeds and Nottm Forest but in both cases their hard times were due to financial mismanagement by the chairman whereas Newcastle's decline would be purely a footballing matter, I think it would be a sad day if Newcastle went down

We were a victim of that against Man Utd, cost us 2 points The ref said 3 mins of injury time and Utd scored after 3 mins and 14 secs so it is fair that it was evened out today

He was a communist, enough said Communism was the biggest political evil of my lifetime so good riddance to him, hopefully Chavez will be next and Kim Il Jong

The answer to that is yes, I try and deal cash in hand all the time be it paying out or receiving