I didn't see footage of - cue the spiritual - Obama invading, erm, visiting Ottawa. Nothing like watching politically apathetic Canadians with massive inferiority complexes run after a President more popular than our own. What a country.
Whatever and nonetheless, I did hear some priceless comments from people about the event.
One lady compared Obama to Moses. As the modern Moses, he was going to bring peace to the world and Afghanistan was going to be the first place he was going to make work because "there are terrorists in Afghanistan."
So let me get this straight. When Bush was talking about the need to democratize Afghanistan the world laughed in his face. When Obama says it, people accept it?
Worse, we call our own leader a "puppet of the Americans" for deciding to fulfill a promise he didn't make to stay in Afganny-stan until 2001. In fact, you can't imagine how many times I've read on political threads that erroneously claiming "Harper took us into Afghanistan." No he didn't. The Liberals did.
On the economy, someone said his "top-bottom" stimulus package would work. He claimed there was going to be a "trickle down" effect right down to the "people." Funny, if I'm not mistaken, wasn't that how Reaganomics worked? And look how popular he's among the "mainstream."
In the young and naive corner, one student said Obama was "very intelligent and a great President." Based on what exactly wasn't forthcoming. But hey, she was a student. They're supposed to be stupid. As long as they exercise their mind without scant lessons in critical thinking it's all good.
Ooof, the double standards are dizzying to the point of giving me vertigo.
Kafka couldn't make it any more surreal.
One has to admit that O)bama is a great PR man. The beaver tail and the souvenir shopping in By market was a ghreat PR shot. Substance there was not, but what a great show. As far as I'm concerned, I reserve judgment.
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