Canadians vote Bush least-liked president

Globe and Mail ^ | July 12, 2003 | SHAWN McCARTHY

[Lockbar]

Good god, who gives a Rats A$$ what liberal Canadian idiots think about Bush. Let them go suck on some raw Canadian bacon and get worms!

[Mark]

Jean Chrétien, go beat some more baby seals.

[gymbeau]

I'm a Canadian now living in Alberta (the one island of relative sanity in this sewer of socialist crap) and once again I'm embarrassed but not surprised at this so-called survey, or in Canadians' attitudes.

Not surprised to see it reported in the Glib and Mail, one of the leading liberal mouthpieces.

Anyway, thanks, Americans, for keeping us safe and as free as our government lets us be. May the wings of freedom never lose a feather.

And may Alberta become the 51st State by year's end.

Okay, that isn't likely to happen...

[Right_in_Virginia]

"I happen to be a Canadian and I think President Bush is honest and speaks right from the heart.I would be honoured to meet him and shake his hand and tell him I believe in him 100%."

Thank you, friend. I'm an American who feels the same way.

[deJaz]

And God Bless You Too but I am a female as in she.

[vbmoneyspender]

Is there any chance that Canadians will ever decide to roll back the welfare state or is nannyism too entrenched in Canada? Sometimes it seems that being a neighbor of the U.S. is the biggest impediment Canada has to rolling back the welfare state because many Canadians would prefer to do anything other than become more like the Americans. So, in the case of free-market reforms, Canadians are opposed to rolling back the welfare state not because they are necessarily against becoming more free-market oriented, but because they are against becoming more like Americans.

[Mike Darancette]

Canada gets my vote for the nation most easily taken in by a left wing media and a socialist government.

[gymbeau]

Unfortunately, I think it's too late for Canada.

Besides your points about the nanny state, our national pride seems based more on being not American and having "free" (as opposed to state-of-the-art) health care where everyone stands in a line of equal length unless they can afford to visit the true land of the free for care - and then get pilloried for it when they return home.

I hear so many references to "stupid Americans" from people who are otherwise relatively bright. People here love to dump all over the US and Americans; gives them a feeling of smug superiority, I suppose, though it's beyond me to try imagining what Canadians have to feel smug or superior about over the past few decades.

Reminds me of a favorite line in Casablanca when Louis Renaud tells the German (after he slurred the blundering Americans) that he shouldn't write them off, that he was with them when they "blundered into Berlin."

If only you'd blunder into Ottawa!

[zbigreddogz]

Wow, yet ANOTHER reason to love GWB.
He must be doing more right then I thoguth! :)

[TennTuxedo]

Frankly, Americans don't care what the Canadien people think? They are irrelevent in our world affairs. Let them ally themselves with the French. When you get down to it, who really cares?

[battleax]

We will also continue to keep our money in USA. After trip fiasco last year in Canada our decision to do our yearly fishing trip was changed from Canada to New York. Still buy nothing French also.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien addresses the Progressive Governance Conference in central London, July 12, 2003. The second day of the three day gathering also included round table speeches from former U.S. President Bill Clinton and Chilean President Ricardo Lagos

The Progressive Governance Conference presents "The Three Commies!"

[Dan from Michigan]

Where's my poll for that frog Jean Cretin?

[AnnaZ]

etc.

A hearty LOL!

[ntnychik]

Thanks, Canadian friends. I'm sure there are many more like you out there.

[Lancey Howard]

Ottawa — U.S. President George W. Bush is the most unpopular American president in recent memory among Canadians, with more than 60 per cent saying they have an unfavourable opinion of him,

LOFL, who cares what New France thinks about anything?
People who embrace the "safety and security" of big government socialism, and who allow their government to ban guns, etc., are weak people. Weak people fear strength, so it is no wonder they fear George Bush. But again, who cares what those mice think?

[microgood]

Canada has really gone down hill since the days of Dudley Dooright.

[Former Proud Canadian]

Canadians vote Bush least-liked president

Putting a story like this in the paper is a waste of good pulp. First of all, who cares? Second, what does it matter?

[Former Proud Canadian]

Lagos is a commie???