Moonlight Graham

Give the guy a break, he's obviously hammered drunk because of the election results. Can you blame him? Hopefully he got smashed before he entered the voting booth.

Give it awhile.

I don't really believe the polls for this election have been accurate. Many NDP and Greens & Bloc supporters will switch their votes to Liberal tomorrow to block a possible Con majority, and even a Con minority. You also must factor in the regional distribution of the votes. I really don't know what to expect tomorrow, other than that the Cons will likely win.

I have to give Palin credit for dodging potential disaster in this debate. No major screwups. How the heck did she go from those horrendous Katie Couric interviews to her debate performance within a week? She must have spent many late nights the week before the debate being prepped. I like her technique when she didn't understand or want to answer a question, she just ignored it and talked about something else. Good trick. Doesn't change the fact that she is frighteningly uninformed. She is George W. Bush in high-heels.

No, she didn't. She said "For the first time in my adult lifetime, I'm really proud of my country."

I'm disenchanted with the Greens too. I'm so frustrated with all the parties right now that i might just end up voting strategically in my riding to keep the Cons from a majority (my riding is Conservative). Hate doing it, but my head is just spinning with these parties. I agree and disagreee with an equal number of policies with each party.

Why? Because they don't inform anyone about anything. They always now seem to sink to the lowest common denominator, with some politician moronically attacking some other politician with "facts" that are usually lies. Its a waste of money, its a waste of 30 seconds of my life, they do nothing to inform the public but rather skew their opinion with rubbish. Just a thought. Opinions?

Exactly. IMO, Palin is the female version of what George W. Bush was as a candidate in 2000. They are both likeable, God-fearing, funny, down-to-earth people who voters would like to sit down and have a beer with, but as politicians they lack the experience & knowledge to have the word “president” in their job titles. Obama has experience issues also IMO, but he's as knowledgeable, intelligent, and of sound judgement as any Presidential candidate of the last 50 years. You would never find him look clueless on a question about a subject as critical & widely known as "the Bush doctrine".

We totally agree. I'm sick of everyone being brainwashed by this "multi-culturalism" crap. I have no porblem whatsoever with immigrants practicing their other cultures & customs, but when they do so without being encouraged to intergrate into Canadian culture it is upsetting. How long until Canada is so "multi-cultural" that we barely have a culture left of our own? Until Canada's culture is defined as having no culture but as a mix of everybody else's? I don't agree with dual-citizenship. Choose your country. If you want to be a ciziten of another country, then give up the citizenship of your former country. Its like getting your cake & eating it too. Yay i'm Canadian.......but if i want i can move back to [insert country here] on a whim then yipee no problems! But that is another subject for another topic for another day.

The commentator is Keith Olbermann of MSNBC, and he is easily one of my favorite members of the American MSM. He is one of the few journalists on any U.S. television network to aggresively & accurately criticize Bush and his administration during the last 8 years. I recommend you go on youtube.com and search "Keith Olbermann special comment". You will not be disappointed. This is one of my favorites.

Its not about xenophobia, its about conflict of interest. I think the fact that she is American, a close neighbour, might be skewing opinions. What if she were born in Italy and became PM, and then Mussolini Jr was born & for whatever reason World War III started & Canada went to war with Italy? Do you not see a possible conflict of interest there? The fact that she has (i assume) dual-citizenship with her former country? The fact that she almost certainly has family living there? Old friends living there? Do you not think that this would influence her decisions? Do you think she would make the same decisions if she did not spend the first 18 years of her life in that country? She also swore allegiance to the flag of the United States of America for 18 years, and unless i'm mistaken she probably still has her U.S. citizenship. Conflict of interest. Just because somebody is a Canadian citizen, it doesn't necessarily mean they are 100% loyal to Canada and Canada alone. I don't care if what i'm about to say isn't "politcally correct", but you can't tell me that, for example, somebody who lived in another country for 40 years but has become a Canadian citizen 3 years ago is as loyal to Canada as someone who has been born and raised in Canada and lived here for 40 years. All people & cases are different, but you get my point. Just my opinion, but i guess if she had a significant chance of becoming PM, word of her foreign roots would be more well-known & Canadians would decide with their ballots if she was worthy to be PM or not. I'm sure it would raise a major stink like it did with Michelle Jean.

I love how much the fact that you can vote for the President and we cannot pleases you. You love it!!! Well, just to spite you i'm moving to Buffalo so i can be a dual-citizen in a decade or however long it takes. Chelsea Clinton for President in 2025 baby!!!!

They aren't crazy, just stupid. And to be fair, and stupid isn't just an American trait. There's plenty of morons in Canada too. The unfortunate thing about a free liberal democracy such as the U.S. & Canada is the eagerness of its citizens to exercise their freedom of ignorance.

You don't see a possible conflict of interest here? Somebody born & raised in another country controlling ours? I wouldn't care if she moved to Canada when she was 2 or 3 years old, but 18? I can't believe how many people have said they don't mind. What if she was born in a country other than the U.S.? Like Saudi Arabia? China? Boggles my mind you people.

Holy crap she's hot!!! Thats not always true.

Thats not exactly what i meant. I'm not saying Americans should factor into their decision who other countries want them to vote for. Im saying that Americans should take into consideration, at least in part, how their vote will impact other people besides themselves. A decent portion of Americans, it seems clear, only give a hoot about how many U.S. casualties have occured in Iraq and mostly ignore the fact that over 100,000+ civilians have been killed as a result of the war. Thats not an anti-American rip, because the same thing can be said about a decent chunk of Canadians and their views on our role in Afghanistan.

Yes. Can't blame them though, since Obama is less likely to drop bombs on their heads.

You can't buy the presidency with money alone, unless maybe a truly horrible candidate (ie: Paris Hilton) promised to give every American adult $15,000 if they won the election. But beyond something crazy like that, money alone doesn't buy the presidency, but it CERTAINLY has a massive factor in the outcome. You can't even get yourself on the ballot without many millions of dollars, which is why billionaires are usually the only independent candidates who people have heard of nationally. p.s. vote for T. Boone Pickens!

Why was there such a huge stink made about Michelle Jean's dual-citizenship when she became GG, but i haven't heard of this about May until now? I suppose its the fact that May isn't realistic candidate to become PM...yet. I'm sure if the Greens won a significant # of seats in Ottawa the issue would become a firestorm.

C'mon man do you give a poop about anyone else in the universe who doesn't have an American citizenship? Maybe not, maybe you don't even give a poop about anyone else beyond your family and friends. You should read more comicbooks:

I hate the Yankees. I'm a Cubs fan (seriously). Cubs World Series '08!! They are of equal value, but useful at different times.

LiberalJim, i am no CPC'er, but i don't need Harper propaganda for me to know that Dion is a weak leader. Watching him for a few minutes in the House of Commons should be enough for anyone.

I'm sure this isn't news to some of you, but... I was startled to read in the newspaper today that Green Party leader Elizabeth May was born in 1954 in Connecticut, NY and that she first moved to Canada & settled in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia in 1972. Therefore, May spent the first 18 years (possibly 17, not sure of exact dates) of her life as an American citizen living in the U.S. She only got her citizenship a few years later in 1978, at the age of 24 (or 23, agin not sure of exact dates). This is just completely unacceptable to me for a leader of a (arguably) significant Canadian federal poltical party who is running to be Prime Minister of Canada. I'm currently quite undecided in this election of which of the major parties i want to vote for & the Greens were definately on my radar, but i can now cross one party off the list (oh, and the Bloc hehe). What do u think? Is she unfit to be PM because of her specific immigration history?

So technically maybe Harper didn't break his own law. If he did, wouldn't he be charged & investigated for breaking the law? But what Harper did was break the spirit of his own law. "Non-functioning Parliament" my rump. Harper wants an election because he has been watching the U.S. election coverage for past months & its got him all jealous & riled up to get on the campaign trail & make phoney speeches featuring the phrase "And so, my friends...". He's probably also wants to get an election done before a possible Obama win, which has the potential to muck his support for conservatism at home.

See my answer above. Of course you don't care, because whomever is leader of another country doesn't affect you all that much (comparitively). If you lived in ANY other country in the world you'd be singing a different tune. Empathy is you friend. Give it a good hug & take it out for a cup of coffee.