Obama is the best thing to happen to the United States since JFK. Most Americans don't even know Canada exists, or could care less. Those that do think of us as Diet America, or worse, like a retarded cousin that lives in the attic. That's fine, we look at you all (since 2000 election) like our best teenage friend who has gone on an eight year bender.
You'll sober up, and feel bad about grabbing France's boob, and throwing up on Germany's bathroom floor and stuff, and it'll be all good.
The single biggest issue facing your fine country is the erosion of the very ideals that made America great: freedom. The neo-con assault on civil liberty, driven by keeping the bulk of the US population in a state of fear, has really handed teh t3rr0ri5t5 a FAR greater victory than they EVER could have imagined. When I hear the repeated announcements in SFO that the current state of ALERT is ORANGE, or see average people of all race, class and creed ditching shaving cream and Dasani bottles at check-in, carrying their shoes and stripping their belts in a degrading ritual designed only to perpetuate a state of fear…or Faux News running a terror alert ticker across the bottom of the screen, while Sean Hannity and Ann Coulter blabber on and on…
Oh well. It's NBR, not NPR.
The US sees itself as the world's policeman. OK, it's a very diverse world out there. 1 in 5 Americans has a passport, and most have not been overseas. Fine. Just think though, what a signal to the world it would be for the US to elect as CinC a black man whose middle name is Hussein.
It's a country I would want to travel to once again for pleasure, instead of just business. Don't be surprised if Obama reaches across party lines and asks McCain to be his VP if the polls support it.
Obama 08!
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