You see, you don't have to be a Democrat, or even an American to be disgusted

Yatescentral has finally made a political decision.

My favorite Englishman finally blew a gasket, and it's not hard to understand why. Listening to Dick Cheney's latest rants is enough to put any reasonable person off his feed. Andy Yates, even though he cannot vote, has had enough- and has produced a truly impressive rant to prove it. It would take me probably four cups of coffee to be able to work myself up to this level, but Andy seems to get there with surprising ease.

It might not please some of you.

Bipolar American politics are a particular hatred of mine. However, having listened to a couple of campaign speeches tonight, I think I have been swung.

Dick Cheney spoke in West Virginia yesterday and I cannot recall being more repulsed by the smug self-satisfaction of a politician since the campaigns of Margaret Thatcher. He even sounded more fanatically arrogant than GW. An unbelievable event; I wish you could have seen it. The masses that turned out were representative of what makes the US the place where even the average European conservative chokes on their cornflakes. Continually booing at their opposition's name is the not the behavior of adults. Ritual chanting of "USA" is the kind of behavior we expect in Iraqi insurgent camps. At least Brits save that for football matches.

If the right want some advice, let me give them some..."America does not need a permission slip..." should never feauture in a speech. You can think some things but you can't say them. Everyone thinks some awful yet true things but the majority have the decency to keep their mouths shut.

There's more, and it gets even better. Truly, I am impressed. It's an impassioned but dead-on argument, and Andy's hit on exactly what angers me about the arrogance of the Right. It's an interesting viewpoint from someone who is not an American, and yet chooses to live in American. It's a dose of perspective that I think is worth paying attention to.

Finally, this will not be an election come November, it will be a poll of who is less pathetic. Really? The most powerful country on earth and it comes to this? It's no wonder impoverished countries put up with their ridiculous regimes and the Middle East is ruled by dickheads. I've quoted it before and I will quote it again..."the public wants what the public gets." The majority are idiots and you have to question the premise of democracy sometimes. When your campaign is a jingoistic refrain accented with an alleged interest in the welfare good of the common man, you're not someone I would want to shake hands with.

I couldn't have said it better myself....