The past few weeks Ive been trying to comprehend American politics. I don't get it. I kinda get British politics to a fashion but Democrats and Republicans and all the campaigning stuff confuses me.
But a fellow Brit has helped me enormously with his short guide and I thought I'd copy it here to help anyone else confused. It's from my favourite singing anaesthetist Suman amateur transplants blog
Oh what a job it is....
So there's this big lump of land over to the west of Ireland... and the rules say that you can't have the same idiot in charge of it for more than 8 years so now the people who live there have to pick someone new to start all the wars. The newspaper people are very happy because they won't have to try hard all year to get any news stories.
There are two main teams, and there are lots of games to play to see who will be the leader of each team.
One side are being very brave because they want to pick someone who's a bit different to all the other leaders before; they are going to choose between a man who's daddy is from Kenya and woman who's husband used to be leader. So really it's kind of a competition to see whether the country is more racist or sexist.
Both of the people who want to be in charge of the team travel around the country and talk a lot. Meanwhile the newspaper, telly & internet people try & make the whole thing more exciting by finding old pictures & stories and by pretending they said or did stuff that they didn't.
The other teams are boring. But the leader of the other big team will probably win overall because everyone will be fed up by the time they have to choose. Or too confused.
Anyway, that's the backstory.
There's a big news website over there that was trying to explain the whole thing a few weeks ago... and must've got bored because by the end of the article they were talking about Amateur Transplants!!
Here's what they wrote.
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