tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8292391779446914378.post1814604677357188387..comments2023-10-14T03:29:27.812-07:00Comments on Bid for Freedom!: Rhetoric we can believe inJulie Hepburnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03625896364216944508noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8292391779446914378.post-33851850929646205252008-09-11T09:13:00.000-07:002008-09-11T09:13:00.000-07:00Yes, it's in the bag for him with backing like tha...Yes, it's in the bag for him with backing like that!Julie Hepburnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03625896364216944508noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8292391779446914378.post-67773220503379830392008-09-11T08:54:00.000-07:002008-09-11T08:54:00.000-07:00What more endorsement could Obama want?http://pica...What more endorsement could Obama want?<BR/><BR/>http://picasaweb.google.com/patoutofhell/FlatWarning#5184040332162265250Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8292391779446914378.post-84264265250154687702008-09-11T01:45:00.000-07:002008-09-11T01:45:00.000-07:00Thanks Math - particularly for your kind remarks a...Thanks Math - particularly for your kind remarks about my nana.<BR/><BR/>Regarding the Post Offices, I have had a response back from the consultation team and they are basically saying that they have been told by the Westminster Government that 2,500 Post Offices need to close across the UK and that they have to close the ones that would have the least worst impact.<BR/><BR/>That doesn't mean that it's impossible to save any of them. However, for every one that is granted a reprieve, another is closed. It's a terrible situation all round. Having distributed surveys around the communities affected, I have been sent a lot of information - mainly from elderly people - that tells me just how devastating closure would be for them. Some people really will be stuck if their Post Office is closed. <BR/><BR/>I agree, we wouldn't be in this situation if the Post Office was still being run as a public service rather than a business - and a loss-making business at that. The ultimate irony!Julie Hepburnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03625896364216944508noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8292391779446914378.post-26114643812021777902008-09-10T17:05:00.000-07:002008-09-10T17:05:00.000-07:00I agree with you on the problems faced in the US b...I agree with you on the problems faced in the US by Obama the need to be "strong"on issues without actually being strong in case the vested interests start shelling out billions of dollars to stop him being the President. It's a shame, but nowhere else on Earth does the phrase "money talks" have more resonance than in US politics.<BR/><BR/>Sorry to read about your Nana. Having lost grandparents at a very young age, my mother in my teens and my father a couple of years ago, whilst I cannot know what "it's like", I can make a pretty good guess as to how you're feeling, and you have my sympathies and compassion.<BR/><BR/>I applaud your comittment to fighting the Post Office closures, although I sadly am of the cynical impression that nothing, short of independence followed by re-nationalisation of the postal system will result in them not being closed. Sometimes however, it's important to try, no matter how unlikely success is. You never know, maybe they're not just going to rubber-stamp everything like "they" normally do. I wish you luck.Math Campbell-Sturgesshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06160117071844262713noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8292391779446914378.post-23715956054026495922008-09-09T02:41:00.000-07:002008-09-09T02:41:00.000-07:00i think you are right about obama being forced int...i think you are right about obama being forced into the mainstream by the constraints of the US system. However, I think its unfair to say his speeches lack substance. As he has shown, he has something of a knack for insipirational, soundbite worthy, hairs on the back of the neck speeches. However, at the party convention, he sacrificed a lot of that for fleshing out of policies, and attacks on Mccain.Holyrood Patterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00011279364711982978noreply@blogger.com