Home run: PM didn't fawn, Bush didn't get ugly

The Globe and Mail ^ | 1/15/04 | Lawrence Martin

[headsonpikes]

Lawrence Martin is Paul Martin's Monica Lewinsky.

Lawrence Martin - Journalist-Fellator.

But it's okay - he gets paid to do it.

[Billthedrill]

Hey, don't worry about it - we had Clinton for eight years and the scars aren't faded yet. I'm a Canadaphile myself...except when the Jays are in town. ;-)

[headsonpikes]

All metaphorically, of course.

Which is morally worse, imo.

[headsonpikes]

All metaphorically, of course.

Which is morally worse, imo.

Well, the money's not metaphorical.

[baseballmom]

except when the Jays are in town. ;-)

OMG, you don't want to take me there, I'm STILL not over '93. LOL

[hershey]

This guy's got a hugh inferiority complex, and no wonder. It must be hard to live right next door to the US.

[albertabound]

It would be naive to assume that Central Canada and their liberal lapdog media will change their spots overnight but at least the pendulum is starting to swing back in the right direction. Alberta is leading the way and our influence is starting to be felt economically and politically across the country. Canada ia an extremely difficult country to manage with the population spread in a thin line along a three thousand mile border interupted by a clannish group of disaffected Francophones who will always take the opposite side of any populist issue. Many of us are looking to America to replace the Britain as the "mother Country" and this is the root cause of liberal anti-American sentiment among the faint of heart.

[Snowyman]

Many of us are looking to America to replace the Britain as the "mother Country" and this is the root cause of liberal anti-American sentiment among the faint of heart.

I know it's damn cold outside. Just what are you drinking?

[jagrmeister]

LOL. This is so simple-minded and pompous, I can't help but laugh. Paul Martin came hat in hand and Bush tossed him a nickel. Let's see if Martin behaves. If not, he'll be an another irrelevant world figure unable to engage the world's sole superpower.

[albertabound]

Nice and warm here and I am a quite sober. Neither Alberta nor Canada will survive another 10 years of Trudeau style socialism. The futile attempt by Ottawa and the Liberals to create a " Canadian" cultural identity based on United Nations guidelines has been devisive.Face the facts,Canada consists of five distinct regions, all competing for Ottawa's benevolence, all going in different directions and all dependent on trade with Uncle Sam in order to survive.Unless someone pulls this rats nest together soon, the outcome is very predictable.

[SolutionsOnly]

I tend to agree. We've already had out civil war. I sometimes think that Canada's is yet to come. You came close with the Quebec Secession vote a couple years ago.
That's a problem that's not going away. Then there's the left/right ideology divide. All things considered, it's sometimes a wonder that Canada has held it all together for this long.

I said before on this forum "I'd rather hang out with Canadian conservatives than American liberals". But that there are so few Canadian conservatives is a problem. Good luck winning hearts and minds!

[wayoverontheright]

Bush's concession to Martin was only partially about Canada, it was also a message to the people of France and Germany that if you replace those fools you are now saddled with, then something good may well happen to you.

[Sunsong]

I'm not impressed with Martin. When you elect a decent government, I will sure acknowledge it. Until then, Canada deserves to have truth be told about Her. Canada is an irrelevant, arrogant, socialist, European wannabe pain is the @ss country. It is dishonest, imo, to compare our 20% of the pop far left with your majority population far left.

I have to wonder why so many Canadians have so much time to spend on this American site instead of working to change their own smug and complacent country?

[albertabound]

http://www.freedominion.ca/phpBB2/portal.ph
Check this site out and enlighten yourself.Canadian Conservatives have recieved much help,constructive criticism, support and advice from the good freepers on this website, that is why we come here.

[albertabound]

http://www.freedominion.ca/recent.php

Sorry about the bad link, try this one.

[NZerFromHK]

In Australia Paul Martin will be considered a member of the Australian Labor Party Left. (The ALP has plenty of MPs more conservative than him and yet the party as a whole isn't conservative enough for mainstream Australia). Sorry Paul, but you aren't good enough for Australia (and Canada for that matter as well).

[Sunsong]

Your link didn't work, but I was already aware of Free Dominion. Forgive me for stating the obvious here, but wouldn't you get more done toward changing your country by posting there than by posting here?

So many of the Canadian posters that I see here do not seem to be here to promote conservatism in America. They seem to be here to defend Canada or sometimes even to defend the socialist or anti-American policies of Canada.

[hawkaw]

Give me a friggin break. This site is one of the best to sit back and pick up the news where I don't get it from anywhere else. And I get the added flavour of some good discussion on the topics.

I have been here since ... gee... I think 1998 ... and now someone like you decides to slam me because I find this site very good at what it has to offer and tells me what I think I need to do?

Yeah .....

[Sunsong]

You said that you didn't like people here putting down Canada and Canadians. I'm saying that as long as Canada stabs us in the back and calls themselves "morally superior" to us and our President a moron -- that you should be joining us in putting down Canada instead of complaining about it.

As long as your country sucks -- we're going to say so. And if you were honest about it, you would admit it yourself. I don't have a problem with Canadians on this site who tell the truth about Canada and are here to promote conservatism in America. I have a problem with Canadians who are here to defend a (currently) indefensible country.

[hawkaw]

Thanks for the useless strawman arguements and thanks for not bothering to read what I originally wrote about where I stand on Bush 43.