[q_an_a]

this is an "interesting" commentary. the writer explains how brillant all Canadians are as a result of their ____(money which is worth less than ours),____ their health care which rations medicine, _____takes forever for transplants and allows the elderly to have no care over the age of ___. These issues are part of why they are smarter than all Americans.

Then he tells us how smart was Klinton, but it was President Bush that won seats for the first time in 100 years for his party. President Bush got Libya and Iran to admit that Pakistan was supplying them weapons. Gee he must not be as smart as Klinton or Creatin.

Then in the last couple of paragraphs he mentions that if people want to be safe President Bush IS THE CHOICE. It takes a heck of a long time for him to make his point.

[tkathy]

"But our kind of guy — intellectual, articulate, sensitive to the infinite complexities of the modern world and, therefore, wary of ever actually doing anything — might not be the kind of guy America, or the world, needs in the White House post 9/11."

Kerry is exactly the kind of intellectual, articulate, sensitive wuss that America, or the world, does not need.

[daybreakcoming]

Having many friends in the Canadian West, I can tell you there is a world of difference in their attitudes toward the US and the US president than that which usually comes out of Quebec and Montreal areas. They are very supportive and have actually had rallies which you will never ever hear about in the media.

[pfflier]

15 per cent of Canadians told its pollster they would vote for George Bush

Unreported: 100% of Americans wouldn't live in Canada.

My mother was Canadian by birth and American by choice.

[schaketo]

But our kind of guy — intellectual, articulate, sensitive to the infinite complexities of the modern world and, therefore, wary of ever actually doing anything

Sounds like a commercial for “Queer Eye”

[OldPossum]

I always shake my head in puzzlement when I read that Bush has a "lack of curiosity." How do they know this? Do they have access to his library? Where's the evidence?

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[ConservativeStLouisGuy]

Bush Will Sell His Message Before Election - William Watson

In a brilliantly titled cover story ("Canadians to Bush: Hope you lose, eh") Maclean's magazine reports only 15 per cent of Canadians told its pollster they would vote for George Bush if they had a say in the coming U.S. presidential election.

Fully 40 per cent said they would definitely vote for someone else. The rest of us responded we'd either consider voting for someone else, didn't know or refused to say (afraid of angering the White House, I suppose, and further poisoning Canada-U.S. relations).

Lord knows there's lots to dislike about George W. Bush. He has a funny accent. He mangles the English language. He's aggressively unintellectual and yet at the same time cocksure of himself, even a bit of a bully. Come to think of it, that description fits a recent retiree from Canadian politics, a constantly underestimated fellow who didn't do at all badly with voters.

But Jean Chrétien never dressed up in a flight suit - the one time he donned a peacekeepers' helmet he had it on backward - and strut around the deck of an aircraft carrier. Of course, we don't have an aircraft carrier, which explains the biggest difference between Canada's leaders and Bush: Ours don't conduct wars of choice. Apart from simple anti-Americanism, whose political importance in this country can never be underestimated, Iraq is why Bush doesn't poll well here.

Perhaps we can all agree, with his swagger, his lack of curiosity, his mean streak and so on, George W. Bush isn't our kind of guy. But our kind of guy - intellectual, articulate, sensitive to the infinite complexities of the modern world and, therefore, wary of ever actually doing anything - might not be the kind of guy America, or the world, needs in the White House post 9/11.

Bush does often muff the details. In terms of encyclopedic knowledge, he's clearly no Clinton. But, as you'd expect of a Harvard Business School grad, he thinks big-picture: Go to Mars, build democracy in the Middle East, fix social security, beat the Democrats to a drug plan for senior citizens. And he is dogged and tenacious, two essential attributes in a wartime leader.

In his book The Right Man, ex-White House speechwriter David Frum confirms what many people have always suspected, the president "made the big decisions" on war in Afghanistan and Iraq "in the first 48 hours after Sept. 11, and he adhered to those decisions."

People are beginning to forget Sept. 11. The United States takes the worst hit it has ever taken. More Americans die than died at Pearl Harbor on that other iconic date, Dec. 7, 1941. The shock and devastation lift the scales from people's imaginations. Mega-terrorism making use of nuclear, biological and chemical weapons now seems a distinct possibility - in fact, a virtual certainty if you extend the horizon far enough out. (Does anyone seriously doubt we will live to see such things?)

And you, as president of the United States, are faced by Saddam Hussein, an enemy whom your own father humiliated in 1991, who probably hates you, who gives every evidence of hating the United States and who has a history of very active interest in chemical, biological and nuclear weapons. Do you take the risk of leaving this person in power?

Bush decided no. Canadians evidently think that was the wrong answer. Since Saddam was never a threat to us, perhaps that's not surprising. But to assume he was not a threat to the United States, which is what the Democratic presidential candidates now argue, or that he could have been contained by the very intelligence services that have failed so spectacularly on weapons of mass destruction, is another thing entirely. It will be surprising if by November the tenacious, plain-spoken Mr. Bush can't make that clear to U.S. voters.

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This article is spot-on! Living here in Toronto and reading/listening to the (Liberal) media up here the author of the article raises a lot of the "objections" about President Bush up here -- but he doesn't fall for those "objections"....he has a mind of his own (rare for people up here as they're all a bunch of lemmings who blindly accept what their media/politicians tell them about President Bush and the United States)....

Worthy of a full posting....

FReegards,

- ConservativeStLouisGuy