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In an appallingly bad piece of phraseology, John McCain has stooped to new levels in the US Presidential campaign. At last night's debate in Nashville, Tennessee, between McCain and Barack Obama, the Republican candidate was speaking about an energy bill from 2005 and said: "You know who voted for it? You might never know. That one," while gesticulating towards Obama. "You know who voted against it? Me."This was astonishing given the language fascism shown by the McCain campaign, not least over Obama's lipstick-on-a-pig remarks. But given America's history of treating black people as objects rather than people, to ditch the courtesy of 'Senator', 'Mr Obama' or simply 'Barack' in favour of "that one" is a ridiculous slip. McCain's lack of respect for Obama is amazing- how many times have...

At a speech at Lebanon, Virginia on Tuesday, future President Barack Obama said: "John McCain says he's about change too, and so I guess his whole angle is, 'Watch out George Bush- except for economic policy, health care policy, tax policy, education policy, foreign policy and Karl Rove-style politics- we're really going to shake things up in Washington."That's not change. That's just calling something the same thing something different. You know you can put lipstick on a pig, but it's still a pig. You know you can wrap an old fish in a piece of paper called change, it's still going to stink after eight years. We've had enough of the same old thing."Within minutes, the McCain campaign announced a conference call to discuss the remark. This despite the fact that last October McCain drew...

The superb act of larceny performed by the Republicans in misappropriating Obama’s ‘Change’ mantra for themselves would be enough to make Ronnie Biggs proud. It may be true that John McCain isn’t your common-or-garden Senator, but then he isn’t exactly your average Chuck/ Buzz/ Chip either. Here we have a man who doesn’t know how many houses he owns and who has voted with George W Bush 90% of the time. Obama spokesman Bill Burton said: "The idea that John McCain represents change in Washington is as laughable as his claim that he'll take on the special interests when some of the biggest corporate lobbyists in America are running his campaign." Indeed, the fact that seven of McCain’s advisors were Washington lobbyists hardly does him any favours when it comes to creating an...

John McCain surprised many when he announced Sarah Palin as his running mate for November. "What?!" cried many non-Alaskans. "Who?" cried many more. However, a few days on it is very unlikely that many still have no idea about the woman who could only be a heartbeat (God forbid) away from the Presidency.To evangelical Christians the choice was music (presumably of the choral or devotional sort) to their ears; a Jesus-loving, gun-toting, moose-shooting pro-lifer was bound to be popular for that constituency. To the Hillaryites, to whom the choice was also cynically aimed, the choice of a woman probably smacks of condescension on McCain's part, especially as this woman is certainly no liberal like their hero claims to be. To everyone else the choice may seem baffling. Palin is a candidate...

Paris Hilton presents her US presidential campaign where she solves America's energy problems. It's nice to see something a little different from the squabbling going on between Barack-for-Change-Obama and "super-old" McCain. Loves...

It was quite clear that the McCain camp in the American presidential race were none to pleased at the reception Barack Obama got in Europe during his recent trip. However, the negative campaigning of the Republicans has taken a somewhat sourer turn in their latest campaign video- 'Celeb'. In it, they mock Obama's ability to command massive crowds around the world, interspersing images of the Democratic presidential hopeful and massive crowds with random attacks on his policies and pictures of such other 'celebrities' as Paris Hilton and Britney Spears.The thrust of the ad is to question whether Obama's ability to fill studiums qualifies him to be a good President. The problem, though, is that the video says absolutely nothing about what McCain's alternative is. The fact that an American...

 Maverick Republican Senator and GOP frontrunner in the race to the White House is almost certainly going to capture his party's nomination following Mitt Romney's decision to drop out this week. Interestingly his candidacy has provoked the ire of right-wing Republicans (are there any other sort?) and talkshow pundits such as Rush Limbaugh who slam the Vietnam veteran for so-called 'pinko liberal' views on issues like immigration. McCain may be a maverick as he often takes views not in line with GOP thinking such as his promotion of campaign finance reform in the 90s but is he moderate?The evidence would suggest otherwise and is in stark contrast to the image of McCain presented to us in the last few weeks by the media. On most of the issues McCain is pretty conservative which makes...

For those hoping that Super Tuesday would provide some clear blue or red water between the candidates in the Democratic and Republican nomination races respectively, the events of this week will have proved somewhat of a disappointment.On the Democratic side, things are closer than ever. I must admit that when I saw Hillary Clinton's fortunes reverse towards the positive in New Hampshire after the Iowa hiccup, I thought the 'Billary' machine had cranked up enough momentum to leap ahead of the the rookie Senator Barack Obama. As it turned out, Clinton bagged eight states on Super Tuesday, including California and New York, with Obama winning in 13. At the moment, the results mean that Hillary has 845 delegates and Barack sits with 765- the goal is 2,025 to be sure of nomination.In the...