http://blogtown.portlandmercury.com/BlogtownPDX/archives/2008/11/05/a_britisher_is_astonished_by_y Comments On: A Britisher Is Astonished By You Yanks by Matt Davis en-us Copyright 2009 Portland Mercury. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, Portland Mercury readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact Portland Mercury. webmaster@portlandmercury.com (Portland Mercury Webmaster) Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:01 -0800 Sat, 21 Nov 2009 19:30:00 -0800 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Posted by Beer Batter]]> Thu, 06 Nov 2008 15:56:01 -0800 Portland Mercury Posted by Toilet Joe]]> Thu, 06 Nov 2008 15:34:58 -0800 Portland Mercury Posted by tcraighenry]]> Thu, 06 Nov 2008 11:01:12 -0800 Portland Mercury
Posted by tcraighenry]]> Thu, 06 Nov 2008 10:59:05 -0800 Portland Mercury
Anyway, this was really nice, Matt.
Posted by Sideshow Val]]> Wed, 05 Nov 2008 21:18:36 -0800 Portland Mercury Posted by Kathryn Martini]]> Wed, 05 Nov 2008 17:31:53 -0800 Portland Mercury

Sorry, I just thought that was funny. What I mean is, welcome to our shores, you tired, poor huddled Matt, yearning to breathe free, wretched refuse of Britain's teeming shores.
Posted by Toilet Joe]]> Wed, 05 Nov 2008 16:50:24 -0800 Portland Mercury
-I disagree that there's more of a conservative streak in England than here, and at least we don't have Christian extremists thank you. The older generation of conservative republicans haven't disappeared, but this year the youth and 'minority' voters finally got out and got involved; and if we had someone to energize those groups and boost turn out in Britain I'm sure we could do it too.

Don't get me wrong, I'm absolutely over the moon for the President Elect, and his achievement, and for the fact that we no longer have to feel kind of embarassed about our leader, and his speech was SO unifying and beautiful. I think it's important to see it as a victory for liberals and intellectuals too, finally a good progressive politician won on issues and not smear tactics. woop.
Posted by jenb]]> Wed, 05 Nov 2008 16:49:15 -0800 Portland Mercury http://www.spectator.co.uk/melaniephillips…

Matt, you're a better journalist (and a better Brit) than Melanie Phillips. That's my full-of-love-for-all admission for the day. Tomorrow I'm back to the curmudging.
Posted by A cat]]> Wed, 05 Nov 2008 16:07:14 -0800 Portland Mercury To quabble over definitions, I'd say it's more of a monarchy/royalty streak.
A modern American conservative would argue for the ability of the people to govern as laid out in the constitution.
Posted by D]]> Wed, 05 Nov 2008 15:37:31 -0800 Portland Mercury Posted by Miranda]]> Wed, 05 Nov 2008 15:36:57 -0800 Portland Mercury Posted by miguelaron]]> Wed, 05 Nov 2008 15:36:36 -0800 Portland Mercury