Congratulations on your re-election, President Barack Obama! I’m inspired, and extremely thrilled to see that the idea of equality of opportunity won in the United States. Barack Obama, and his team, have done so much to improve the land to the south. Even more, he’s been an inspired and inspirational
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Alberta Diary: Message to Canada’s media: OK guys, you can stop campaigning for that Romney guy now …
Romney Defeats Obama! U.S. President Barack Obama – perhaps not exactly as illustrated – holds up a copy of the Toronto Globe and Mail after his election victory last night. Or something like that. Maybe they just missed it that we don’t get a vote. Most Canadians don’t get to vote, that is, in the …
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Barack Obama Has Won A Second Term Over Romney.
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Barack Obama won fighting for Medicare, the poor, the working class, the middle class, the gays, the seniors, the students. Thank God!
Every attack went into the ditch and now his second term and great…
Canadian ProgressiveCanadian Progressive: Canada’s New Democrats prefer Obama re-election
Canada’s Official Opposition, the New Democrats, prefers to see Barack Obama re-elected as U.S. President rather than Republican challenger Mitt Romney. NDP Leader Tom Mulcair told reporters in Montreal on Sunday that he “hopes to work wi…
Continue readingCalgary Grit: Election Day in Ohio
While I may not be as overdosed on hope and change as I was four years ago, I’ll be rooting for Barack Obama tonight. I could write a lengthy treatise comparing policy positions and promises, but the short of it is I like the guy and I think he’d make a better President than Mitt Romney. I suspect that’s what it boils down to for most voters, so I’ll leave the deep analysis to those who follow US politics more … →
Continue readingThe Equivocator: 10 Ballot measures to Watch in Tonight’s U.S. election
Tonight President Barack Obama will be re-elected, Democrats will keep the Senate and for no apparent reason the Republicans will keep the House of Representatives for another 2 years. More awesomely, Wisconsin is going to elect America’s first openly gay … Continue reading →
Continue readingTrashy's World: My prediction…
For what it’s worth… (6) Trashy, Ottawa, Ontario
Continue readingAlberta Diary: Apparently being Ezra Levant means never having to say you’re sorry
Sun News Network commentator Ezra Levant in a typical pose. (So typical, it’s a Sun News photo, as a matter of fact.) As tout le monde tout le monde nervously awaits today’s U.S. election, the story generating buzz on the Canadian Interwebs is a sorry tale of a Manitoba journalist fired for annoying her local …
Continue readingCanadian ProgressiveCanadian Progressive: Globally, Obama Overwhelmingly Preferred to Romney: Poll
by GlobScan A new 21-nation poll for BBC World Service indicates that citizens around the world would strongly prefer to see Barack Obama re-elected as US President rather than his Republican challenger Mitt Romney. The poll of 21,797 people, conducted…
Continue readingTHE FIFTH COLUMN: America The Ugly
With friends like this Romney doesn’t need enemies: It’s enough to make an atheist want to believe in god so we can call on him to save us from them, but as they tell us, and so fervently believe, he is on their side, their vengeful hateful god.
Continue readingAlberta Diary: Harper Tories cry havoc and let slip the wars of dogs!
Meow! Prime Minister Stephen and Patron of the War Animals Laureen Harper with their Military Intelligence advisor “Trinity.” Below: the GRU and CSIS lapel pins. Note the similarity of design. Coincidence? I think not! A Royal Canadian animal hat: Here be Dragoons. And below that: Modern elephant-mounted light artillery …
Continue readingSong of the Watermelon: Obama, Romney, and the Electoral College
2008 Electoral College With opinion polls ahead of next week’s election showing the two candidates for President approximately tied, but giving Barack Obama a slight edge in the Electoral College, there now exists the real possibility that the latter could be reelected despite losing the popular vote. In other words,
Continue readingImpolitical: Brooks with a stinker column
A real head shaker of a column today from David Brooks as the U.S. campaign enters its last week: “The Upside of Opportunism.” Basically, Brooks writes that Romney is more likely to get stuff done if he’s elected President because Republicans in the House will go along with him. And
Continue readingRedBedHead: Obama’s Betrayals Made Romney Credible
Everybody’s biting their nails and holding their breath. What’s going to happen? Who’s going to win? The “Hollywood liberal” machine is out in full force with clever ads by luminaries like Joss Whedon of Avengers, Buffy and Firefly fame and hipster filmmaker Lena Dunham chiming in. There’s no doubt that
Continue readingLeDaro: Mitt Romney Foreign Policy Debate
It was clear that Barack Obama won the foreign policy debate – Obama knew the issues, Romney did not. On military spending, Obama showed that Romney was stuck in a 1916 mentality focussing on buying more battleships, when modern warfare is much more complicated with new technologies. On geography, Romney
Continue readingLeDaro: Romney Dances ‘Gangnam Style’
I was going to do a video on Romney dancing ‘Gangnam Style’ but I found this one on YouTube. It is a fun video. Enjoy. Here is a one for Obama doing ‘Gangnam Style’ dancing.
Continue readingImpolitical: Obama’s closing argument
He wanted it. Yes. Very persuasive closer there. I felt emotion from Obama tonight, as I did in the second debate as well. This one seemed a little more enjoyable than the other two. There was no awkward mano-a-mano ambling around the stage and confrontation as characterized by the second
Continue readingSong of the Watermelon: On Polarization in America
Tea Party protest Every four years, the American airwaves are saturated with pundits claiming that the upcoming Presidential election is the most important in the nation’s history. Partisans — both official and unofficial — paint dire pictures of apocalyptic disaster should the wrong candidate be voted in. Ever-escalating stakes seem
Continue readingLeDaro: Second Presidential Debate – Who’s the Real Romney
Finally, Obama decided to debate, and he was good. There seemed a general sense that Obama had the edge in this debate as he called out Romney’s lies – on policies to increase military spending while slashing taxes for the rich, something that would dig America into an even bigger
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