http://codex.wordpress.org/Write_Post_SubPanel

Scroll down to the subheading “quick tags” and it has a fairly comprehensive list. At the very least, it’ll be more helpful than me!

but replacing the quotation marks with these things

By ‘these things’ I mean those little arrow things (<), which probably have technical names, but will have to make do with being called ‘things’ for now.

And how do you blockquote on this site?

You type in “blockquote”, then the text you’re quoting, and finish with “/blockquote”, but replacing the quotation marks with these things ().

Sorry, I’m sure there was a better way of explaining that…

Painfully true. And how do you blockquote on this site?

While that is true Sunny, however, the media in the US is ludicrously biased to the Right. The media have been asleep for the last 8 years, and now will awake to resume the coverage they gave to Clinton.

Bush’s approval ratings have not been anywhere near 50% for 4 years, but if you arrived from planet zog and watched the American media you would not have known how unpopular he was.

Just as when Clinton was impeached, he had ratings of 70%. You would never have know watching American news.

Possibly, but Obama is a very skilled operator. He isn’t as lame as Kerry or Gore

“That we now treat Presidents like Kings and expect them to exercise similar powers is consistent with the broader trend whereby we are ruled by a Versailles on the Potomac, with all the bloated, decadent insularity that implies.“

“There is conservative media machine which will help tarnish Obama and tear at the Dems.”

Nah, they’ll dig the “bipartisan” approach.

Who knows re. Palin in ’12?

But give the rightwing attack dogs, commentators and lawyers (not to mention the already concerned liberal base) 4-years with Obama, and then pass judgement.

Jeb gave us his idiot brother. And their policy beliefs are identical. So Jeb might be able to put two sentences together unlike his brother, but the politics will be exactly the same.

TBH, right now the Republicans are still ga-ga over Sarah Palin. Did anyone see that the Republican senator who just won said it was thanks to Palin? I love it…let the woman carry on being bigged up and let her destroy the party or take it to another defeat.

Well, he’ll not be alone. There is conservative media machine which will help tarnish Obama and tear at the Dems.

But here’s the thing: that was supposed to be Mel Martinez’s job. He was appointed head of the RNC in (I think) 2006, after the mid-terms showed a strong hispanic swing to the Democrats. The problem was that the anti-immigrant base of the party hated him, helped kill the immigration bill he helped to construct and then continued to pursue a witch hunt against hispanic immigrants. The result was that even after nominating a Republican who was friendly to hispanics, two thirds of them still went for Obama.

I’d agree that Jeb Bush is a much better politician than his brother, but I’m not sure he’s enough of a miracle worker to undo the damage

Hmmm. The rumours were that one of Hillary’s demands was that Chelsea be brought into Obama’s team at some point down the road.