So that means we Canadians are no smarter than Muricans. That we really accept that politics is more about style than substance. What a sorry lot we are if this is true. We deserve the governments that we get.

miss island mike

'Moron' is a little too kind.

This is just further proof that polls are made up. Canadians may not be that bright/clever as evidence by the mere existance of the NDP/LIOBRANOs but this is just some lefties wet dream......

We, here at sda, knew that the Canadian Media would be colored 'TAKEN' in a short while, but who knew it would be so obvious, even to them, in just a few months !?

note: does wk still have a glowing BO in his side bar ?

I love these juxtapose threads...the trolls almost always show up and make themselves look foolish (not that difficult a task, even on one of their good days).

Got to wonder how blinkered a guy can be. Starts off with a "you're brilliant" then spends the rest f the article pointing out how bad the guy is.

Maybe Canadians in general would have voted for Obama in 2008, but the Liberal Party of Canada bounced black female MP Jean Augustine from her Etobicoke riding to parachute in middle-aged-white-guy Michael Ignatieff.

JUXTAPOSE !!! A great, great addition to your line up Kate.

Nothing, but nothing succeeds like a glaring comparison does.

Is the reason the Media hid BO's real self during the campaign.

Is the reason Gore will not debate Lomborg. Suzuki a no-show with Ball.

Wow. That column should never have seen the light of day. In the beginning, nothing but hope, awe, and naivete:

"Like most Canadians I rooted for you madly and cried when you were elected President-of-The-World. So far, I think you've been a great leader, reaching out to the whole planet."

But later:

"After the speech, I was asked if I wanted to go meet some of the Presidential staff backstage. Man, I was thrilled. But when I got back there, they were drunk and out of control. Joe Biden and Chris Mathews kept feeling up my leg. I tried to leave, but Rahm Emanuel held me down and...I was..."

And now, with the same hope, awe and naivete he had at the beginning, albeit tinged with a bitter tear or two, Josh Freed is begging for a do-over with a different result. Publicly.

He should keep the request to himself. That's just embarrassing.

I smell the tang of voters remorse down south.
How they must feel cheap. A 20 dollar evening with the million dollar wonder con man working his marks. An empty motel room in the Morning. A cheap note left saying you pay for the room.
Americans once knew, & hopefully will again. Government in any form, is a free mans worst enemy.
Needed, but with guard dogs the size of German Sheppard’s eyeing it at all times. Look at the Natives for an example of what being a child of the State, or subject entails.
JMO

Poor Josh (writing in the Montreal paper) is just another deluded soul who thinks the news is reported by the likes of Mercer, the CBC, Jon Stewart & the liberal chorus at CNN.

His mind-set was formed early by our NDP-dominated clusterf#*k of an educational establishment, and he can only get a job writing for a liberal-leaning paper.

Gotta feel some sorrow for poor Josh.

Like EBD, that first paragraph really stuck in my craw:

"Dear President Obama, Like most Canadians I rooted for you madly and cried when you were elected President-of-The-World. So far, I think you've been a great leader, reaching out to the whole planet."

Josh Freed = Great Writer or Moronic Twit?!?

Happens to liberals all the time.

"Bu..bu..bu..but he promised!"

Should we send someone around to check up on Josh to make sure he hasn't done something foolish?

I'm sure that the "brilliant" comment in the article was meant to be sarcastic. Only an ignorant, brainwashed imbecile would believe that Obama is anything approaching the continent within which one hopes to find the mythical village of "Brilliant".

Then again, Obama's really a puppet. He could very well have the capacity for brilliance, as do many folks, but could be being lazy and dumbing himself down. Like many folks, particularly "progressives".

He prefers to simply do and say as he's told by the Omnipresent Teleprompter and the Little Man Behind the Curtain.

He really doesn't give a gosh-darn about a bloody thing.

Canadians hate Bush but it was the Republicans that kept the Congressional Democrats from throwing up protectionist barriers to our goods.

Now along comes Obama, a protectionists socialist whose deficits will inevitably weaken the US dollar and slow demand for our goods -- at the same time that universal health care prevents Canadians from getting medical help south of the border.

But, hey, he gives such great speeches and doesn't trip over his words like that dumb Texan so I'm sure it all balances out.

Right?

Josh isn't the only one who cried.

Yes we did vote for him, 40 years ago, his name was trudeau.

I believe it shows how many dreamers there really are that lack confidence and self esteem and gravitate towards this type of, this is what I want to be sweep me off my feet personality. Everything I can't be he will, the savior of all my insecurities in life, my ego, my dream, very close to trudeaus just society dream. A simplistic but unrealistic world in their minds where we are all one and everyone loves and cares for each other. A utopian world with it’s capital in Camelot, that just doesn’t work. Welcome to the world of Obamaism.

EBD, did you ever see the video of, Joe Biden drunk, type that in utube if you haven't.

Robin is another Whittaker Chambers*.
...-

"How to Deprogram a Liberal in One Year Or Less
By Robin of Berkeley

So what do you do when you realize that everything you've ever thought and believed no longer worked for you?

Where do you go when the bubble of progressive politics bursts in your face and you're left in the leftist place on earth? It seems that the choices are as follows: either you cling to your beliefs even more zealously and attack anyone who dares to disagree. Or, if you're like me, you embark on a journey of discovery and recovery.

I wrote another piece recently for American Thinker, a letter of amends to conservatives. In it I described why I transformed from a Berkeley leftist to a talk radio loving conservative the last 1 1/2 years. I realized the Democratic Party wasn't what I thought, that it had mutated into something mean and rough, and that I had probably been living in a fantasy world all along. I very much appreciated the outpouring of support, wisdom, and forgiveness from American Thinker readers.

Many said something to the effect of: Robin, congrats, but what in the world took you so long? So let me explain. I wasn't just your garden variety liberal who voted Democrat and that was about it. I was a true believer. A zealot. Like many leftists who had abandoned Judeo-Christian religion, I worshipped at the altar of liberalism. For instance, I never missed watching the Democratic National Convention. I watched every speech, with tissue box handy. (What kind of a freak was I anyway?) The Democratic Party symbolized hope, love, compassion, promise, everything that was good and holy in the world. I gave money, my time, my heart, my soul. I cried with joy when Democrats won; I was distraught when they lost."
http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/how_to_deprogram_a_liberal_in.html
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*Whittaker Chambers: Witness

"Chambers radical bent was all-consuming; he became not only a Communist Party member but also went underground to be a Soviet operative, a total self-dedication. He ended up operating among the government circles of Washington, DC in a secret Communist cell based there (later known as the “Ware group”). He was alternately known as “Carl” or “Bob” or other aliases. He and his wife became close friends with a State Department official and his family that they met in that group; the friend’s name was Alger Hiss.

After ten years or so, he underwent a mystical conversion, his description of which might be said to resemble the “Confession” of St. Augustine. A key break came when the Party first tried to stop his marriage and then demanded they abort their newly conceived child. “Abortion, which now fills me with physical horror, I then regarded, like all Communists, as a mere physical manipulation.” All that had apparently changed within himself. He began to realize he was no longer what he had been and could not go through with what he had come to see as a horror. From that point on, he slowly began to plan, not only his break from the Party, but to begin his life-and-death war with Communism itself."
http://www.floppingaces.net/2009/05/03/chamber-of-horrors-witness-to-the-future-reader-post/

What a puerile piece of dreck. Is it any wonder broadsheets are dying? Unspeakably lame writing.

Western Canadian: "Yes we did vote for him, 40 years ago, his name was trudeau."

Please forgive my smugness -- or perhaps it's just sheer relief: I never voted for Pierre Trudeau. Being a very young voter at the time, I smelled a rat from the very beginning. 'Must have been my upbringing and my Judeo-Christian sense of smell.

I knew from the very beginning that he was bad news, a poseur, an opportunist -- in short, trouble. I didn't know the word "socialist" at the time (hey, I majored in English!) but I just knew he was up to no good.

I am eternally grateful that although it was my generation that foisted the Trudeaupian Dynasty onto a naive and, it would seem, unsuspecting Canada, to our eternal shame, I had nothing to do with it. I've been swimming upstream ever since, and though it's never been easy, there's a certain sense of satisfaction -- smugness? -- that I did the right thing by never voting for him or his party who turned out to be the most corrupt political machine Canada's ever seen.

It's going to take generations to dig out of the rubble.

As for Josh Freed's screed: Serves you right, you little idiot, for replacing worship of a real deity with worship of a two-bit political puppet dressed up real nice.

Scripture (seeing as it is Sunday) puts it very well:

"For the time is coming when people will not put up with sound doctrine, but having itching ears, they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own desires..." 2 Timothy 4:3

Isn't that exactly who Obama is? A lofty teacher/orator who says what people want to hear? His high-falluting flights of fancy have no basis in truth, in fact he's a master at elegantly mangling the English language, twisting it to mean what he wants it to mean, viz his speech at Notre Dame last week ( http://deborahgyapong.blogspot.com/). Scroll down to "More Parsing of the Obama Notre Dame Speech" by Rush Limbaugh and "Powerful Analysis of Obama's Speech" by George Weigel.

An appropriate response, used often in litanies in the Church?

Good Lord, deliver us.

What channel is Jon Stewart on...I am calling Star Choice, I what the option to opt-in!!

One of the objectives of "those behind the curtain" seems to involve punishing foreign countries and foreign individuals who "went the extra mile" in continuing old or developing new close economic and foreign policy ties with the USA during the Bush, Clinton, Bush, administrations.

Protectionism and corruption, two sides of the same old coin.

Amen batb. (And I never voted for Trudeau either!)

Obama’s a fraud. I avoid his speeches like the plague—they’re bad for my blood pressure and peace of mind. Apart from his impeccable clothing, I find nothing attractive about this moral pygmy. His smug, head-titled-up (to see his teleprompter) delivery of plain—and verifiable—lies and highfalutin flights of fancy are a scandal. It’s disturbing in the extreme that so many people have fallen for this snake oil salesman, who is hell bent on running roughshod over the Constitution and, not only changing all the rules, but undermining the very basis of them—the rule of law. He makes my skin crawl.

I keep up to date on Obama’s various skulduggeries by visiting a number of excellent American blogs: Power Line’s my number one. It has links to a lot of the others, such as the NRO blog, REAL Clear Politics, American Thinker, Opinion Journal, Weekly Standard, Town Hall, the Hoover Institute’s Uncommon Knowledge, American Enterprise Institute, Victor Davis Hanson, Charles Krauthammer, etc. It’s good to see that the consensus of those who’ve not been hoodwinked by this trickster is that Dick Cheney’s Homeland Security speech trumped Obama’s theatrical drivel big time. (Am I glad to have Cheney on board, a man of intelligence, knowledge, and integrity—the antithesis of the Obamafia and his Chicago thugs.)

My husband and I also watch Fox. (We bought a package two years ago that included it.) Yes, it’s somewhat repetitive—so is all of the Obama-worshipping MSM—but it’s pretty effective at exposing the lies of the Democrats and the MSM’s collusion in the Great Obama Charade. Newt Gingrich and Karl Rove are on regularly: they’re two smart cookies—so is Dick Cheney. No wonder they’re reviled by the left. (Anyone reviled by the left has to be doing something seriously right!)

I just hope enough Americans wake up from their stupor and fight back like hell before it’s too late.

Our Conservative Government has been very vocal of late about the increasing protectionism south of the border which has already been hurting us...Being our MSM will cover little of it until their Liberal masters start complaining themselves, I'm wondering when Iggy will start doing his job.

Obama's first foreign visit was Canada which he promissed a very concerned and worried Harper he would make sure free trade would be respected.

OBAMA IS A LIAR. UP UNTIL HE WAS ELECTED, OUR LIBERALS AND MSM HAD BEEN VERY VOCALLY ANTI-AMERICAN...WHERE ARE THESE SNAKES NOW?
DON'T THEY CARE ABOUT THIS NATION? IT SEEMS THEY WOULD STILL PREFER WE GO DOWN THE TUBES BEFORE THEY SIDE WITH OUR CONSERVATIVE GOVERNMENT ON THIS ONE ISSUE. VILE AND TREASONOUS!

Same thing Batb, I was 12 when that commie Turdough won the leadership by giving out free cokes to everyone in the house, I said to my mother, thats not right, in 1975 after a few years of that evil bastard I was arguing with liberal a farmer friend of mine and he said, but when have we ever had it so good, I said everyone can have it good when they run up the charge cards, but now look at our taxes. Get ready you Americans, your low taxes are a thing of the past with your new narcissist in chief.

While I understand Josh Freed's sentiment I cannot help but wonder "Where was Josh Freed during the Campaign that never ended?"

Everything you needed to know about Canada / US relations was explained by the Candidate Obama quite plainly, unfortunately many did not listen to the words and instead just saw magic unicorns dancing about.

NAFTA - Takes Jobs from Americans, wants it re-opened and still does... this time for carbon tariffs after his Cap and Tax is passed...remember "include in all free trade agreements tougher labour AND ENVIRONMENTAL standards" This theme had been restated several times.

Obama has a policy called FAIR TRADE not a policy of FREE TRADE. That simply means that he wants to raise wages and environmental standards in the US and tax and tariff imports to bring them up to par on cost based on the US Standards he is setting. So the goal here is this and our Government will do it (becuase we are lap dogs) is for Canada to create a Cap and Trade System for Carbon to avoid a carbon tariff at the border, also Obama wants to put a tax on originator countries for crude oil carbon content. So Imported oil would be charged a tariff for the carbon content of oil based on market prices to offset the release of carbon when burned because it will not be under the Cap in the climate change legislation.

I say all we have to do is cut off the North/South supply of oil , NatGas and electricity for 10 days and they will change their tune right smartly.

I firmly believe that democracy is the best form of government, but one of the bad things about it is that 100% of us get the government that, say, 53% of us voted for (insert the appropriate percentage for Trudeau).

And the idea that Obama is brilliant but Bush is dim is simply ludicrous.

A new era of protectionist neirosis sweeps America's ruling junta. Interesting they brand themselves as "liberal" when trade and migration protectionism and economic nationalism are political machinations of the authoritarian left.

Interesting this protectionist policy is invoked on the Canadian border to limit legitimate trade and travel. At the same time the Mexican border leaks 3 million felony migrants a year who they encourage to stay and work in lousy low pay jobs in exchange for a sort of limited scullion citizenship. Cheap goods flow unencumbered at the southern border.

It appears the new nationalist junta in DC requires the discount labor of indigent felony migrants and cheap Chinese and Mexican consumer goods in its national prosperity planning. Perhaps the Obamanistas took the Wal-Mart business plan to a national level.

Obviously Canada having a 1st world economy, culture and labor force is of little interest to America's new central planning junto which seems enamoured of 2nd world economics and labor pools.

Some days it's hard to tell whether latin fascists or latin bolsheviks have descended on the beltway politburo.

If it is pretty unanimous that Freed is a moron/dolt/idiot, what does that say about the people who hired him and published his comment?

"Fled Iraq" is proof positive that this guy is either wilfully ignorant of world affairs or just plain ignorant on a level to that of a 12 yr old schoolgirl.

And, of course, those U.S. late night comedians cited as being agents of American evil share the exact same p.c. liberal-leftist outlook as the columnist. Oh, the irony.

I join the throng citing buyer's remorse. The brand new dog barks well, but it won't hunt.

What we see here is Josh Freed's semi-functional bullsh1t meter finally, FINALLY emitting a feeble "ping!" Its the manifestation in writing of that moment when the journalist's single functioning synapse fires and he says to himself "hey, wait a second..."

He can't really comprehend what's wrong, because according to his lights The One is making all the right moves, saying all the right things in that mellifluous voice, moving his perfectly toned and exercised backside in all the right ways, and Joshie remains star struck.

Its just that Josh can't understand why a country that has a major problem with Mexico would takes steps to harden its border with... Canada.

And so,as sensible people's crap detectors went off so hard they wrapped the needle around the pin when as they heard The One came from Chicago (where even the dead vote DemocRat and US Senate seats are for sale to the highest bidder) Josh's was silent.

People like Josh have to be hit in the face with a wet flounder before they notice the fishy smell. That's because Josh is aggressively ignorant of anything that disturbs his partisan world view.

Ich bin ein conservative.
...-

"BREAKING RANKS
How To Become an Accidental Conservative

In an excerpt from his new book, SPIEGEL editor Jan Fleischhauer describes his childhood in a typical West German liberal family, with parents who wouldn't let him eat oranges because they were grown in countries ruled by dictators, and his coming out as a late conservative.

I can say with confidence that I know my way around liberals. I've spent half of my life in their company. My parents were on the left, as were my schoolmates and the majority of my teachers, my fellow students at university and, of course, all of my professors. Most of my colleagues are still liberals today.

It isn't as if I have suffered because of it. I had a very sheltered childhood; it's just that I was sheltered by liberals. I saw my first Disney film together with my own children. When McDonald's opened a restaurant in our neighborhood, my father gave me a serious talk about the corruptive influence of American fast-food culture. The enjoyment of my first burger was an act of adolescent rebellion, and to this day, I still feel slightly guilty on my occasional visits to McDonald's.

I am part of a generation in Germany that knows no other reality than the dominance of the left. Everyone was a liberal where I grew up. This isn't entirely self-evident, because the neighborhood in which I grew up would generally be described as an exclusive residential area. My parents' friends -- and their friends, of course -- all voted for the left-leaning Social Democratic Party (SPD), and later for the Green Party.

There must have been a few supporters of the conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) nearby, perhaps even among some of our neighbors. After all, Wellingsbüttel in the northern part of Hamburg was one of the few districts where the CDU captured more than 50 percent of votes in the 1970s. But you never saw them. You might have seen Henning Voscherau, the later Social Democratic (SPD) mayor, at the hockey club or, while shopping, the head of the NDR television network's "Panorama" program, who had just completed a critical feature about (conservative politician) Franz Josef Strauss and the arms lobby.

My mother joined the Social Democrats in 1969, because of her enthusiasm for (former SPD Chairman and Chancellor) Willy Brandt. She always took her obligations as a party member very seriously. She could become extremely passionate when the conversation turned to politics, which meant that discussions with her sometimes lasted so long that you would simply give up, out of sheer exhaustion. In all those years, I never heard her say that the party had erred on an important issue. There were certainly tactical weaknesses, she said, but nothing fundamental. The other side, in her view, was constantly in the wrong, making one faulty decision after the next, or it was so deeply corrupt that it was deliberately leading the country astray. It was astonishing, under these circumstances, that the Social Democrats had such a difficult time staying in power. But, in my mother's opinion, this simply proved that the other side was using dirty tricks.

In my family, the SPD was far more than a collection of like-minded people. Instead, it was seen as a sort of political Salvation Army, which would purge Germany of the remnants of fascism and lead it to a better, more just and democratic future."
http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,626346,00.html

" But you don't have the excuse Bush did: He was dim and you're brilliant. "---Folks,read the link,and as Canadian Sentinel pointed out,think sarcasm,or think tongue-in-cheek. I don't know Mr. Freed's original position on the big OWE,but he is not cheerleading for the man in this article.

As EBD said, "that column should never have seen the light of day". The fact that someone with Josh's journalistic skills works for the Gazette and that his emotional droppings got through their editorial process is a good indicator of how competition and shrinking revenue has derailed the press. How the mighty have fallen.

Phantom:

"aggressively ignorant"

cool, I'm saving that for use at some later opportunity

This is the same crowd who see Obama as another Trudeau with a tan. They remain so far removed from reality, it makes one wonder about their mental health.

voltaire's bastard at May 24, 2009 10:57 AM;

Your an even bigger cynic than an Sob like me. That's a compliment by the way.
Great post.
A hearty Amen to Batb. In Alberta we didn't vote a Liberal in once during the PET rampage in Canada. You could smell his rot, straight from the Pit to the fish farms of Ottawa.
Democrates are what used to be known as Idoliters. They all have this need to have another think for them. This is why Personality cults are so prevelant in the left. They need a God but only a human one will do, or what their hands can make.
JMO

O may be losing his shine in the world. Seems he is not being listend to by many leaders. Israel will still build in settlements, British banks may refuse american clients re O's bank requirements, Iran still wants the bomb.
It has only taken him a little over 100 days to ruin the US economy, security, industries, banks to name a few of his accomplishments.
Drudge has the stories.

Unfortunately, Josh Freed is a perhaps a good example of why Americans should slam the door shut...

Here is exactly the point. He is considered brilliant because he has a barritone voice and talks cliches. He has not done a day's work, or a day's thinking, in his priveleged life.

He should have thanked his grandmother rather than insult her as racist.

I belittle the front-man.

"aggressively ignorant"

cool, I'm saving that for use at some later opportunity

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try; educated to the highest level of ignorance

I was highly amused to read Jon Stewart's jokes at the expense of Canadians. Yes, John Stewart Liebowitz does have an acid tongue. Like many of his ilk he carries a deep bitter nastiness. He parlays this off as humour and gets away with it. His prime target was of course, George W. Bush. George is retired now and he is virtually lost as a target,cept' for President Obama little jabs.
Mr Freed will hardly learn a lesson from this, serves him right. That lesson is that life is an enormous joke- except when the joke is on you.

Let's see know.. according to this morning's National Post, Bambam wants Canada to make an even greater commitment to Afghaniland.

So, after unilaterally deciding what will happen to Chrysler and GM - decisions which affect thousands of Canadians - and promising to respect NAFTA, but doing nothing to stops tens of states from adopting "Buy American" clauses, and supporting a head of Homeland Security who continues to insist that the 9/11 hijackers entered the US from Canada, he wants us to commit more Canadian lives and money to support his army?

I'm helping my daughter with a project on "game theory" right now. In games of repeated rounds, the most effective strategy is to co-operate at first, and then do the other what he did to you the previous round. It's called "tit-for-tat". I think it's high time for PMSH to call out Bambam, and say "Sorry, if you're going to beggar our economy with import barriers, unilaterally bankrupt major employers, and erect border walls to tourism, we need to bring those men and women and that money home, and concentrate on Canada. Thanks for playing."

Thanks Gord. I've always liked that one. I didn't coin it, but it does capture the spirit of these kinds of people.

Josh only woke up because he just got mugged by Obama. America got mugged as a whole today, again, with this Chrysler announcement. The One just stole a whole car company and gave it to his buddies in the UAW. Nice! Hope and Change, baby!

Voter remorse will be SO MUCH greater in Canada if the gullible MSM readers go for Icky in 2009/10/, as he has no cute dog, no charisma and no policies or vision. He can't even cope well with people who disagree with him, including his own family! Sabre-rattling and hiding will not cut it.