Sad day, bad day.
RIP to a great thread.
Though it seems sort of ridiculous to close it down. As someone who has read this message board for many years, it is quite obvious that these political talks will pop up in other threads again. They ALWAYS have. Do you seriously think Riffy is gonna shut up about this stuff? I understand Gazza's intent but I think it would have been better off to leave the political thread alone as it would keep all that specific content in one place where it can easily be avoided by people that have no interest in it. Just my 2 cents.
But at the end of the day, only one thing matters. The Bush Geeks got their asses handed to them in a major way. And The Rolling Stones certainly approve of that!

Peace, peace! The politics thread is not dead, it doth not sleep -
it hath awakened from the dream of life -
'Tis we, who lost in stormy visions, keep
With phantoms an unprofitable strife,
And in mad trance, strike with our spirit's knife
Invulnerable nothings. -We decay
Like corpses in a charnel; fear and grief
Convulse us and consume us day by day,
And cold hopes swarm like worms within our living clay
*Releases a bunch of dead butterflys*