Is that what you find funny, Christopher?

You just keep making the same hate-filled and irrelevant remarks and there is simply no point in allowing you to repeat this ad nauseum.

Either find something new to say or move along and spread your poison on some other site. The choice is yours – although the decision will be mine…

Good for you, you got your wish, to have installed in America another cowardly socialist one-worlder who would further erode his country’s hegemony and push it further into being yet another Second or Third World stink hole like the UK, or Germany, or France, or the Netherlands, or Sweden, etc., for example.

Around 1:30am, when the party started to get so noisy that I couldn’t hear the results on the TV any more, I headed for home to continue watching on the BBC. It was very moving seeing how much the result meant to so many Americans, especially African-Americans who now know that there is no upper limit to the opportunities their country offers them.

The data at If The World Could Vote suggests that the news will be welcomed in all corners of the globe, including Israel – though perhaps some of the biggest celebrations will be in Kenya, where they have apparently declared a national holiday!

I thought that John McCain’s concession speech was quite magnificently gracious, positive and constructive; it’d be nice to think that his supporters would take his advice to get behind the next administration and to help to America through the present economic crisis. President-elect Obama’s speech in that Chicago park full of joy brought tears to my eyes; the tale of the 106-year-old voter and all the changes and achievements she’d seen in her life was very well chosen. Obama is a wonderfully inspirational orator, as even many of his detractors concede; I can be a sceptical old so-and-so at times, but he made me believe in the possibilities for a different and more hopeful era.

Welcome back, America the beautiful.

It really doesn’t matter who Israelis are supporting in this US election as they don’t get to vote (bar the Americans who have moved to Israel and kept their US citizenship of course).

What does matter is that both Barack Obama and John McCain will end up negotiating – or trying to negotiate – a peace settlement in the Middle East. Just as the British managed to do in Northern Ireland. Unless an attempt at genocide is made by Israel, which would be bitterly ironic, a negotiated peace settlement is going to be the only way to end the conflict there.

McCain isn’t a warrior at all, he’s a politician, and politicians negotiate whenever possible. It’s just what they do. It’s also why the USA and every other peaceful country doesn’t allow military types to be in charge of the political process; their perspective is too narrowly focussed to be able to understand the bigger picture.

You’re just as wrong with your racist remark about liberal Jews in the USA. It is perfectly possible to be critical of some of Israel’s policies in the Middle East without actually opposing the idea of the country’s existence, although I know this kind of slightly more nuanced thinking is beyond the reach of the mono-dimensional thinker…

The point of fact is that Israelis are backing McCain because they know that Barack Hussein Obama wants to negotiate with terrorists that have threatened to destroy Israel.

The point of fact is that John McCain wants to kill terrorists instead of negotiating with them.

That’s the sign of a warrior. Barry O. is not a warrior, but a cowardly leftist more concerned with class warfare than fighting real battles where blood is shed.

Liberal Jews in America don’t care a whit about Israel. They actually see the Pallys as victims, the very same Pally vermin that fire rockets and suicide bomb innocent Israeli women and children for no other reason than because their Jews.

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For the record, I have a first class honours degree in arts and social sciences and have travelled widely. I live in the exceptionally multi-cultural city of Bradford, which is home to many Muslims who seem curiously disinterested in killing anyone. I spend much of my time at the University of Bradford, which attracts students from all over the world; I think it’ll be a great place to watch the results coming in tomorrow night. I have met lots of people from a very wide range of ethnic backgrounds, including a diverse range of folks with a Jewish heritage. There is one person in this thread who appears to believe in rigid ethnic stereotypes, and in the words of that great Jewish American genius Bob Dylan: it ain’t me, babe.

I must say, though, that I have been particularly grateful for the much-needed light relief brought to this election campaign by a couple of outstanding American comedians who make their Jewish heritage a part of their act. Jon Stewart has repeatedly skewered the McCain/Palin campaign with comic brilliance and merciless accuracy on ‘The Daily Show’. Sarah Silverman’s ‘The Great Schlep’ campaign, aimed at getting young Jews to persuade their older relatives to vote Obama in Florida, was a fine bit of comedy with a serious purpose, and the video she made to promote it was a wickedly funny highlight of the campaign: it can still be seen at The Great Schlep. I am also grateful for the wisdom of Jewish American voters nationally: Gallup reports that they’re favouring Obama by a ratio of nearly three to one.

I won’t have much time to be here this week as I’m in appearing in one stage show and rehearsing for another one, but I do hope to drop by to post a few celebratory words in the small hours of Wednesday morning. If I haven’t partied too hard, that is.

I’m having trouble believing your assertion that you “accept the world for what it is, you seem too ideologically loaded for that. It takes a certain openness to see the nature of things and you don’t strike me as the open minded type.

Intelligent design only makes sense on a superficial level and, although it can seem to be a secular miracle that life exists at all, it does seem that it has in fact done it all by itself.

I thought as a Jew you were naturally a believer in this god notion that you Jews share with the Christians and the Muslims?

I don’t really see much wrong in pigeon holing, it’s just a way of sorting things out. And you yourself have thrown out enough epithets and labels in your faux rage.

I don’t begin to understand why you see people who have differing views to yours as threats or enemies. You are certainly not omnipotent and it is often the case that other people have good ideas too.

You seem to see the opposite of your rigid and hostile stance as “sickening” and “touchy feely” as weak in some way, but I see your inability to overcome your fear of the “other” as weakness.

Finally, I am both a blogger and a crass commercial pitchman – and many other things too. It’s not really that difficult to reconcile these things. I don’t see anything wrong with anybody trying to earn a living, indeed, I would see it as a right.