Since I’m one of about 12 Americans on this Board who didn’t vote for Obama in the primary, and won’t in the general election, I will have to speak for the Great American Unwashed Bible-thumping, knuckle-dragging racists who will never ascend to Leaffan’s oh-so-precious Canadian level of Cool.
I think I speak for all 12 of us when I say, we don’t give a rat’s ass.
Oh and Canada, thanks for electing a Conservative government in 2006. We didn’t think you had it in you.
Senator Obama says that he is for a woman’s right to choose. I agree with him. A woman has the same right as a man to choose whether she pursues a college degree, to choose whether or not she wants to marry, and if so, to whom, to choose whether to be a stay at home parent, a working parent, or not a parent at all, and to choose who to vote for. However, since a man may not choose to murder his children, a woman may not do so either.
If Barack Obama were a mixed ethnicity version of Ron Paul, I would be cheering for how far Americans have come. However, since I disagree fundamentally with his idea of the role of the federal government, and the only major issue that I agree with him on is the war in Iraq, I will hold my applause.
This Canadian wants to know, “Where is our Obama?”
Your Governor-General, perhaps.
Wow, what an obnoxiously condescending OP. Congrats to you, Canada, on walking upright and successfully dressing yourselves. We didn’t think you had it in you. :rolleyes:
Only if you believe her press releases and bullshit rhetoric.
We’re your hat - you know, that big blank space on the top of all your maps. 
I don’t know if the OP was condescending; I don’t completely agree with him that the US Americans made this decision based on principles and performance.
And for the record, we haven’t had a black Prime Minister yet mostly because there are about five black people in Canada, but we have had a female one. If you want to compare apples and apples, we have an astonishing Prime Minister right now because he’s not from Quebec! :eek:
Dear Sweden,
Send more blondes.
Sincerely,
America
I guess that makes me Lucky 13!
Silly American, you should know what Canada is - you’re wearing it as a hat!
Dear Leaffan,
Please don’t presume to speak for all of Canada there.
Kythereia
I thought that was Duluth.
You have elections in Canada?
That’s so cute - just like a real country!
Regards,
Shodan
Dear Democrats,
Congratulations!
As someone who 8 years ago refused to vote for the first female on a presidential ticket here (she went on to be vice president anyways), despite my being a raving feminist, I understand why you elected Mr. Obama instead. I am glad you did, and agree with your choice.
Not that you probably care a bit what we natives of this tropical island think of you, but I look up to you for the first time in a long while.
Good luck friends,
Somebody who does not speak for anyone else.
Here’s once Canadian who hopes Obama does not win.
To me, the whole “renegotiate Nafta” thing trumps whatever domestic policies he may have and the fact that he’s a historic Black presidential candidate (neither of which are really any of my business).
Yeah, I’ve sort of been talking about it amongst my office-mates - what can we do to help the McCain campaign from here? Funneling money towards him a la Hugo Chavez probably won’t do much good. Maybe some kind of internet information effort?
Dear Canada,
GET OFF OF MY LAWN!
Sincerely,
John McCain.
Unfortunately, or fortunately, depending on your point of view, only US citizens and US permanent residents can donate money to political campaigns in the US.
I’ve long ago decided that, for politicians at the top level, labels of gender, race and religion cease to have any real meaning except inasmuch as they can be leveraged for additional power.
Barak is no more a black man than Hillary is a white woman or McCain is a white veteran or Monkey Boy is a good Christian man. They’re all the same wine poured from different bottles.
So I’ll pick which clown runs the circus based on how I think the face they wear will look to the rest of the world. McCain will show the rest of the world that Bush was not a mistake we made twice in a row, but represents what we really think and feel, and that we Yanks deserve the derision and fear we feel he is nurturing on our behalf. Hillary will show the world that we Yanks lack imagination, that we have degenerated to oligarchy only thinly masked by a democtratic process which lets us decide which dynasty will rule us. Obama will show the rest of the world that, for all our faults and being cursed with not knowing WHAT we want, that what we DON’T want is the world’s contempt.
I distrust Barack simply because he has clinched the nomination. I’ll vote for him because, for the love of all that is holy, at least he can spin a yarn that looks and feels like the finest Egyptian cotton, even though we all know it’s polyester from the same factory that’s been supplying us for the last 100 years.
Remember that it wasn’t a random cross section of the US that nominated Obama; it was the registered Democrats. Whatever praise you think America deserves for this is really just deserved by (I guess) considerably less than half the US population. And I think few would disagree that it’s generally the more liberal segment of the country.
Obama still might get stomped in the general election, and it wouldn’t surprise me one bit that exit polls show that race and/or his name was a big factor.
trying to think of all the Muslim name sounding Black PM Canada has had…
Help me out here Leaffan.
What…you don’t have it in you like the U.S.?
You guys really are backward hicks up there, eh?