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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: ManyMoose who wrote (54991)	11/9/2008 3:10:31 AM
From: Hope Praytochange	1 Recommendation Respond to of 224648

British journalist covering Barack Obama caught on camera in drunk, plagiarism rant Adam Smith, of Birmingham Mail, is YouTube sensation after drunken 'F*ck you' resignation and admitting to copying BBC timesonline.co.uk This is what happened to Birmingham Mail reporter Adam Smith on Wednesday morning, as footage appeared on YouTube of him writing a report on the US election, slumped on a Miami pavement, and barely able to speak. Mr Smith, who also calls himself Steve Zacharanda in the hit video which was viewed almost 20,000 times in 48 hours, had taken a week's holiday to go to Miami to volunteer for the Barack Obama election campaign. After the victory, and very much the worse for wear and drink, Smith was caught flopped against a set of railings, a laptop on his lap, filing an article about Mr Obama's victory for the Mail. The maker of the video, a Dutch amateur journalist from Couscous Global, had stumbled across Smith by the roadside, and asked him what he was doing. "I jumped on a plane on Friday to volunteer for the Barack Obama campaign," Mr Smith explained in a strong, if rather slurred, Brummie accent. "As an ill-advised promise, I've decided to say to my paper back home that I'd write about the American election. "I wanted to be here because I'm here for history. The trouble is, the readers of the Birmingham Mail are going to get my version of history. And I'm just a little bit pissed..."

To: ManyMoose who wrote (54991)	11/9/2008 2:10:18 PM
From: RetiredNow	Respond to of 224648

You are really reaching for straws now. They were completely unrelated. In one post we were talking about the abrogation of some of our freedoms in order to be able to track down terrorists better. In my other post, I was talking about Obama's search for a person to fill a cabinet level post of Chief Technology Officer, which indicates his plans to fulfill his campaign promise to put a renewed heavy emphasis on this country's science and technology industries. Those are two different conversations. But I understand that you must be feeling low, because your man lost the election. I actually thought the old McCain showed up at the concession speech and he's been a class act behind the scenes as well, since then. You guys should show some of the same class and get behind your President and this country. If Obama fails, we all will suffer the consequences.