Yanks, and no thanks

I am struggling to find someone as interested in the US political scene as myself. My neighbours are more concerned with the growing pains of their leylandii, and the kids who live in the bus shelter just want me to buy them some fireworks.
I tried to point out that their future well-being was intrinsically affected by the forthcoming Presidential election, only to be met with ‘Piss off, faggot’ and ‘Are you a paedophile?’
I do despair.
John McCain has chosen the female governor of Alaska to be his running mate. She’s young, so anyone drawn to Barack Obama for that reason will be back in play, and she’s female, which should nicely negate the effect of Hillary Clinton’s prominence for the Democrats. She’s also married to an oilman, so when they’re comfortably nestled in the White House, that oilfield under Alaska is going to be up for grabs in a single beat of her black heart.
I may delete that last paragraph soon – my hatred for Republican Americans is equalled only by my paranoia that they’re after me – but it’s good to get it off my chest. I posted something similar on a Washington Forum website earlier today, and soon received two replies to my post. The first one (from someone calling themselves ‘BushAndProud11’) asked simply ‘Call yourself a patriot?’
The second, an anonymous posting, asked ‘Are you a paedophile?’
Sometimes there just isn’t enough cheesecake in the world to ease my pain…

RC 29-8-08
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