by Timo Cerantola

Created on: September 01, 2009

Bomb The Evil Canadians!


Canadians know Americans better than anyone else on the planet. Unlike the rest of the world, as America's next-door neighbour (and little buddy Gilligan), we Canadians get a chance to peer over their fence and into their backyards every day.

True. We watch them salute their flag every morning.

We hear them shoot off their guns and test their military equipment in the backyard.

And of course, we listen to them brag endlessly about America being the greatest, most wonderful, supremely amazing, inexhaustibly fantastic, prodigiously magnificent, voluminously fabulous, immeasurably kick-ass incredible and... well, you follow my drift.

And, not that any of that is untrue but, why is it, when it comes to choosing their leaders, we watch our gloriously superior cousins inevitably pick some dim-witted, intellectually challenged blowhard who thinks primarily about war and who America should attack next?

Indeed, unlike we Canadians, who pick our Prime Ministers based on their lack of balls and how out of touch with reality they are, Americans tend to vote for the candidate who best displays a rugged, shoot from the hip, take no prisoners, bomb them into the stone age style of leadership.

I am still in 'wait and see' mode with President-Elect Barack Obama, but I'm not hopeful. You see, during Obama's campaign I couldn't help but note that Obama was for escalating US military intervention in Afghanistan; Obama was opposed to complete withdrawal of troops from Iraq; Obama was for continuing the embargo on Cuba; Obama was also for hostile confrontation with Venezuela's populist (and democratically elected) President Hugo Chavez and all other Latin American reformers - (even though Obama speaks of protectionism at home, he demands free market access to Latin America). Obama was a former defender of the Palestinian people, but is now just another AIPAC toadie in full (silent) support of Israel's numerous and continued violations of international law where Gaza is concerned as well as continued expansion of Israel into the West Bank. I guess Obama's true litmus test will come when we see him repeal the Patriot Act or not - but don't hold your breath. He likes it just fine the way it is.

Now I surmise the American people feel safer with war-mongering presidents, knowing that the global bad guy (whoever he is this week) will capitulate to the American way of doing things rather than risk having his country reduced to a smoldering pile of radioactive

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