Confirming something I noticed a long time ago – most of what the average Canadian claims know about the US is the result of watching American TV.
h/t
Confirming something I noticed a long time ago – most of what the average Canadian claims know about the US is the result of watching American TV.
h/t
the NDP to keep Ottawa honest. What would Canada be like without them??
A NON FASCIST/COMMIE COUNTRY!!!
It’s obvious that ok4ua doesn’t get around much, that he watches the wrong television channels. Among U.S. politicians, there are a few wrestlers–or one, anyway–and an actor or two (I know only of Presdident Ronald Reagan and Arnie Schwartzenegger), but who else would he be talking about: Well maybe Hillary Rodham Clinton, but she’s a BAD ACTOR.
You’ve got to widen your horizons, ok4ua, and watch some actual political shows, before you can make the kind of judgments you’re making. Tim Russert’s “Meet the Press” is pretty good, The McLaughlin Group’s another one, and there are a whole lot more that I don’t watch anymore. You’re not going to see a lot of wrestlers or actors on those shows, but maybe some commentary that would go over your head.
There are A LOT of really bright Americans running the U.S.A., and they’re on both sides of the political spectrum: Republican and Democratic. They’re SERIOUS about politics which, until the CPC became the government, you couldn’t say about politics here in Canada. The Bloc (which shouldn’t be allowed to sit in our Parliament, seeing as their main goal is to break Canada apart), the NDP, and the Librano$ have a lot of hacks taking up seats in our House of Commons, so as a Canadian I’d be very careful about calling U.S. politicians “not too bright.”
I think there’s a major case of projection going on here.
ok4ua (not) wrote, “The President has veto power so that makes him a dictator.”
Well, this Mr. or Ms. Smartie (not), doesn’t realize that the US is still a DEMOCRACY because the President is ELECTED for a set term. (And can be defeated.)
This is unlike Canada, which is really no longer a democracy, but an oligarchy–nok4u might need to look that up–because, since the Charter (1982), non-elected, for-life, activist judges have constantly made an end-run around Parliament. In this country, judges actually MAKE laws–laws which no elected parliament would be able to enact. (Read Lorne Gunter’s fine article about the elitist, leftie-hijacked Court Challenges Program in today’s National Post.)
And nok4ua has the sheer gall to posit that Canada’s a democracy and the US is not: Like most of the smug and deluded lefties who post here, nok4ua’s an ignorant fool. And that’s my objective opinion.
ok4ua, doesn’t know what the hell he/she’s talking about.
Re the “democratic deficit” in this country: I suggest ok4ua check out the powers of the Prime Minister in this country. Why not report back here about the vast powers of the PMO (Prime Minister’s Office)–vastly expanded under Liberal rule for the past few decades–which can be exercised minus the knowledge or consent of Parliament?
Debate’s a good thing, but the opinions of people who go off half cocked about topics about which they know very little are not constructive.
ok4ua: D-