Breaking News: Republican senator talks sense! Plus a plea from the rest of the world to the people of the US

A bit like when Republican politicians spoke out against the Iraq war you sort of hope that Repulican voters will at least listen to their own when they talk sense.

Chuck Hagel has stated what for the rest of the world is blindingly obvious, Sarah Palin is a terrible choice for their Vice Presidential canditate. He cites her foreign policy credentials as the most obvious reason WHY she is a terrible choice: having obtained  a passport in the past year and living next door to Russia does not make you a foreign policy guru it makes you a tourist living in a place you would want to leave because it gets a bit chilly a lot more often than you would like.

We know why she was chosen, she's a loud mouth, she talks the "common (wo)man's" language, she has the unique factor (potential woman VP) and quite possibly and most pathetically, she is not too hard on the eyes.

If you are honest and you approve of the Republican party's choice of VP then you have to admit that you approve because Palin ticks one of those boxes for you because let me assure you (though you may well not care), those of us in the rest of the world will shake our heads and despair that a large slice of the United States has once again voted for a party (the Republicans) without using the brains they were born with. It will also reinforce the erroneous view that Americans do not give a damn about anyone other than themselves. Many of us know that isn't true but it is hard to explain since Bush got his 2nd term.

Please make our jobs easier and  do not make it a third term for the Republicans.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7623771.stm