{"id":1722,"date":"2008-05-21T18:46:17","date_gmt":"2008-05-21T22:46:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=1722"},"modified":"2008-06-04T15:49:19","modified_gmt":"2008-06-04T19:49:19","slug":"thats-why-they-cant-vote-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=1722","title":{"rendered":"That’s why they can’t vote here"},"content":{"rendered":"

I like Canada – I lived right next to that place for years, first in Vermont and then in New York. Socially, Canadians are great people to hang out with. But politically, they’re not Americans. For example, take a look at this from Darcy at the Canadian blog Dust My Broom<\/a> (which generally leans right);<\/p>\n

Wow – U.S. Republican John McCain’s name gets a mention in the Canadian media<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Barack ObamaDemocrat Barack Obama would crush Republican John McCain in the U.S. presidential race by an almost four-to-one margin \u2014 56 per cent to 15 \u2014 if it were up to Canadians.<\/p>\n

That’s the conclusion of a new Canadian Press-Harris-Decima poll that, for the first time, gauges Canadian opinion on a head-to-head contest between the Republican candidate and the presumptive Democratic nominee. […]<\/p>\n

While some of that antipathy toward the incumbent Republican could explain Canadians’ overwhelming support for the presumed Democratic nominee, Mr. Anderson says Canadians like Mr. Obama for other reasons.<\/p>\n

He says the candidate’s three main promises are in lock-step with Canadian public opinion. His public declarations that he would renegotiate NAFTA appear, so far, to have ruffled few Canadian feathers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

See? That’s why we only let Americans vote in our elections. I know foreign journalists ask these questions to influence the whatever-philes in the US to vote the way they want us to vote just so everyone in the world will like us, but it only influences the majority of us to vote the other way. We’re not Canadian, we’re not Brits or French or Germans or Kenyans…that’s why we have our own country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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