Balls,
With all due respect for your opinion that fully 1/2 of Americans are dumber than the average Canadian...
The election is absolutely about voter confidence. Bush's #1 platform is the "War on Terrorism". Take away any of the facts about how successful he has actually been in this cause, and take away how unproductive the American occupation of Iraq is turning out to be. He won votes because he has the majority of the voting public nervous about world events- namely the terrorism threat- and has them convinced he's the man to meet the threat head-on. Security. We have the advantage of viewing their situation from a safe and objectionable distance. That said, and I tell you what now, if buildings in Vancouver were brought down by terrorists, I'd be voting for the guy who'd vowed to increase security and defense spending. And you know what? A hell of a lot of other otherwise intellectual and objectionably thinking Canadians would too.
I'm not saying it's good, or right that Bush got voted in, just pointing out why.
With all due respect for your opinion that fully 1/2 of Americans are dumber than the average Canadian...
The election is absolutely about voter confidence. Bush's #1 platform is the "War on Terrorism". Take away any of the facts about how successful he has actually been in this cause, and take away how unproductive the American occupation of Iraq is turning out to be. He won votes because he has the majority of the voting public nervous about world events- namely the terrorism threat- and has them convinced he's the man to meet the threat head-on. Security. We have the advantage of viewing their situation from a safe and objectionable distance. That said, and I tell you what now, if buildings in Vancouver were brought down by terrorists, I'd be voting for the guy who'd vowed to increase security and defense spending. And you know what? A hell of a lot of other otherwise intellectual and objectionably thinking Canadians would too.
I'm not saying it's good, or right that Bush got voted in, just pointing out why.