Wow. What an amazing night. It's hours after it ended and I still can't believe it.How Obama knocked Mitt Romney off his White Horse, and sent him back to Bain Capital riding backwards on a burro.For as even David Frum admitted "This isn&#…
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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 readingLeDaro: The Two Faces of Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney is champion of etch and sketch.
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 readingLeDaro: Mitt Romney’s Election Platform: Presidential Elections 2012
Which Mitt Romney Republicans will vote for tomorrow:
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 readingMontreal Simon: Mitt Romney and the Mormon Question
Lordy. I must admit that I didn't think Mitt Romney's deep involvement with the Mormon Church should be an issue in the U.S. election campaign.For compared to all his other liabilities, and character defects, or his many crass sermons in the Temple of the One Percent, it seemed so trivial.And
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Mitt Romney and the Zombie Apocalypse
It's hard not to see what's happening in the United States as anything less than a slow-motion horror show.A nation reeling from the catastrophe of Hurricane Sandy.A presidential election too close to call.National opinion polls suggest the race for the popular vote in Tuesday's election is so close that only
Continue readingLeDaro: Mitt Romney’s Election Platform
Romney will help you and your family.
Continue readingImpolitical: Romney punts on climate change
Excellent video of Romney at a rally and his tin ear non-response, when given the opportunity, to respond to a heckler who challenges him on climate change. Hecklers shouldn’t be allowed to commandeer an event. But in these crucial few last days, when climate change has been brought to the
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 readingCuriosityCat: Sandy & FEMA: How Obama can ensure his second term, if he moves fast
The gods of politics abhor predictability and delight in upsetting humans’ applecarts. Just when Mitt Romney was doing so well, along came hurricane Sandy, wreaking devastation on the eastern seabord. Sandy has given President Obama a gift: the opportunity to use FEMA to clearly demonstrate to voters the enormous difference
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 readingMontreal Simon: The Big Storm and My American Nightmare
It's been a living nightmare. The dirtiest election I've ever seen.An election corrupted by Big Money, two billion dollars worth of attack ads, and more Big Lies than you can count.A frightening spectacle of a country so bitterly divided, it's eating itself alive.Read more »
Continue readingLeDaro: Joss Whedon Endorses Mitt Romney
Joss Whedon is an accomplished film-maker and producer. In 2008 he endorsed Obama but this time he has chosen to endorse Romney. It is a heartfelt endorsement but Romney may not like it. Watch the following video and you be the judge. “Like a lot of liberal Americans, I was
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
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