Obama's America looks a lot like Canada (VOMIT)

Financial Post ^ | 2/23/2oo7 | Diane Francis

[libh8er]

This U.S. election represents a major inflection point for that country as well as for Canada and the world.

Obama will crush Hillary and then McCain in the fall, a new comprehensive poll shows.

Why? Because America is not working like it used to and has deteriorated in the past generation into more have-nots than haves. This is not news, but now the have-nots, and other disenchanted voters, are turning out in record numbers to vote.

This week's poll shows Obama with a 14-point edge over Clinton, 52% to 38%, after being in a statistical tie last month. In a head-to-head matchup, Obama beats McCain 47% to 40%.

Obama is uniting those left behind by the Republicans and other social Darwinists who have exclusively looked after -- to quote President George Bush -- the "haves" and "have mores." Enormous tax cuts go to rich people, while the rest are given a stern lecture by the Republicans about the benefits of hard work and the American dream, which, by the way, is mostly unobtainable if you were born a member of a minority or if you cannot stay healthy or are educated.

Republicans have created budget deficits with their tax cuts for plutocrats, CEOs, Wall Street hedge fund pirates, lawyer ambulance chasers, overpaid doctors and insurance companies. (Their combined profits last year were nearly what provinces spend on providing health care to 32 million Canadians).

Tax cuts to rich people are regressive and don't help people who don't make much money or pay little, if any, taxes. They are an instrument of class division.

The point is, if Bush policies worked for the majority, McCain would be ahead. Instead, there is a large, and growing, "third-world country" inside the United States that consists of unhealthy, damaged and disenfranchised people victimized by lousy education in poor neighbourhoods, little or no medical care or war injuries that are not compensated for properly. African-Americans have been damaged for centuries and there is no help for America's "downstairs" -- the millions of illegals, exploited as nannies, delivery "boys" or orange and avocado pickers -- who cater to America's wealthy "upstairs" elite.

Is it any wonder that African-Americans and Mexican-hispanics vote solidly Democrat and will opt for Obama in dizzying numbers? They represent two out of every 10 voters. Many of these have never bothered to vote, but Obama is getting virtually all of the 15% voting in primaries who are "first-time" voters.

Obama also connects with prosperous voters concerned about what I call the "Brazilling" of America -- the reduction of the middle class and the increase in poverty.

Here are Obama's initiatives, which are common policy in Canada and other developed nations:

-Americans will have the same health-care benefits as its politicians;

-Poor American children should enjoy the same quality of public education as well-off children; and

-The United States will pull out of Iraq and work on multi-lateral efforts to restore peace around the world. President Obama will expect Canada, Europe and others to pony up much more to help create global police forces.

dfrancis@nationalpost.com

[libh8er]

I thought of writing a long protracted email to this fool, and only because she sits in the board of directors of a major Canadian mining company and claims to be an "entrepreneur" in her video biography

[libh8er]

typo : ..she sits ON the board..

[squidly]

This is quite at odds with today’s Rasmussen poll that’s just down the page. Not that any of these polls mean much, if anything, in February.

[1curiousmind]

“Obama’s America looks a lot like Canada”
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Although not as white.

[fieldmarshaldj]

...or as clean.

[1curiousmind]

If Obama crushes McCain it will be due to McCain’s weakness as a candidate, not Obama’s policies.

[darkangel82]

the American dream, which, by the way, is mostly unobtainable if you were born a member of a minority or if you cannot stay healthy or are educated.

Vomit indeed. Who writes this bull crap?

[Paul Heinzman]

In reality, it looks more like the Soviet Union; he’s just dressing it up to look like Canada.

[VictoryGal]

“This week’s poll shows [...] Obama beats McCain 47% to 40%. “

WHICH poll? And what kind of sample? Sloppy liberal reporters, biased pollsters... not sure which group are the bigger prostitutes.

[Joe Boucher]

Here in S.E. Florida, Canadians come around for several months
this time of year. I don’t ever care to be like no stinking french canadian. Nor do I want my govt like theirs.

[1curiousmind]

I had to laugh at that comment coming from someone with the last name of “boucher”.

[cripplecreek]

If Obama is elected only we will be able to stop him from having his way with the country. Sitting around whining about it will only give democrats free reign to do as they wish. Just be ready for a fight folks.

[Thrownatbirth]

Obama will expect Canada, Europe and others to pony up much more to help create global police forces.

That would be fun to watch.

[squidly]

This one is even better.... there is a large, and growing, "third-world country" inside the United States

I've traveled extensively in the 3rd World, and I've never seen anything in the USA that remotely compares. I have seen a bunch of whining crybaby Americans though.

[donna]

If you spell Canada like this: V-e-n-e-z-u-e-l-a

[donna]

I think people are equating unhappiness with poverty. Moms working, everybody working 10-hour-days, kids getting in trouble, the constant barrage of bad health ads, political hatred, terrorism . . . it all seems like poverty and hopelessness.

[flat]

and how long is it that the AMERICAN TAXPAYER has subsidized canadian security with our treasury and the blood of our GALLANT MILITARY?

if we are protecting socialist noodles like this... i want my money back

[ccmay]

In a head-to-head matchup, Obama beats McCain 47% to 40%.

That's one poll, six months ahead of the election, showing a lead that's not a great deal more than the statistical margin of error. I don't believe it will last, and here's why:

• Media driven Obamamania is at its height. The bloom will definitely be off this rose by November. Even left-wing suck-ups will have to take a break from the cheerleading and do some real reporting between now and then.
• Hillary is a leftist too, so she can hardly attack his policies. McCain will feel no such compunction. Obama is particularly vulnerable on guns and abortion, especially his vote to allow doctors to kill babies that are born alive during abortions. Actual infanticide for the mere convenience of the mother is not popular, even among some people who otherwise support abortion on demand.
• In every election that I can recall in my lifetime, the Democrat held an early lead in the opinion polls that did not persist until the election. Dukakis was supposed to slay Bush Sr., remember? And Gore held a convincing early lead over Bush Jr., too. I believe much of this is due to push-polling by the media in order to encourage bandwagon-jumping.
• The Dinkins-Bradley-Wilder effect. When a black candidate takes on a white candidate, there are many people who are so scared of being perceived as a racist that they will tell a pollster they are voting for the black man even when they have no intention of doing so. This effect is routinely good for at least five or ten percentage points. This is not the same thing as racism, of course, though it will be portrayed as such by the media. Be prepared for some vehement anger and resentment in the black community, and a whole new raft of conspiracy theories from the truthers, when Obama is beaten by five or ten percentage points come November.
• Michelle Obama is a flake who is going to turn lots of people off, especially women.

Be of good cheer, even if you don't like McCain. He will beat Obama quite handily and be an acceptably good President.

-ccm

[Doc Savage]

Diane Francis’s Canada looks a lot like Stalin’s Russia! National Post my ass!

[ccmay]

I had to laugh at that comment coming from someone with the last name of “boucher”.

My wife is half French-Canadian extraction, and is descended from this well-known Québec pioneer: Marin Boucher.

So are you, Joe, in all likelihood.

-ccm