How effed up ARE we when we can't appreciate Obama? Well according to Canadians....

[quakerboy]

137. In coming from a country that has elected Conservatives, criticizing us for electing conservatives.

"send him our way".

Except that they as a country chose to elect GWB lite to a second term, after seeing what happened in the US when we elected GWB. Putting it simply, they had politicians who would have had similar policy choices to Obama, and they instead chose to Elect CONSERVATIVES. The fact that it was 40/60 makes no difference, unless you believe that the multiparty system somehow came as a surprise to the majority of Canadian voters. Or, i suppose unless you are prepared to give the US the same leeway based on gerrymandering and vote counting fraud. Which would equally invalidate the writers message, just in a different direction.

I'm not saying that the writer is conservative. Im saying the country chose conservative leadership. There is a reason I don't go writing editorials about how dumb Canada is for electing Harper or give our Aussie brothers too much grief over Tony Abbott. My country allowed GWB, and just brought in a fresh crop of Republican lawmakers. It would be hypocritical of me. Same as it is for them in reverse.

If he'd left off the "send him our way" jab, I probably wouldn't have posted. but in point of fact, they voted down their Obama policy equivalents and chose Harper instead. They didn't just vote for a divided legislature, they handed Harper the whole damn pie.

At the end of the day, the essence of this letter would be roughly equivalent to someone from Texas critiquing Canada for electing conservatives. And ending it with " when you are done with him, send (Paul Martin) or (Jack Layton) our way!".