So the United States will be spending another four years locked into a paranoid nightmare where logic and reason cease to function, and the very idea that there might exist an objective reality or truth is shat upon by foaming political mullahs who value only loyalty and blind obedience in a way that makes one think it wouldn't be so bad if the machines took over, not so bad at all...
What does Canada make of this?
News flash: George Bush is still as popular up there as pustulent gonorrhea, and he's dribbling all over our the few pissy scraps remaining of our country's reputation. He is so reviled, in fact, that the White House is currently thinking it would be a bad idea for him to address Parliament when he visits Ottawa at the end of the month...As it would be bad publicity if he were heckled.
No final decision has been made, but those involved with the planning of the visit (Nov. 30 and Dec. 1) want to avoid pictures on U.S. network television of a president being booed or shouted at as he embarks on a second term seeking warmer ties with allies who had cooled toward his administration.
In fact, the Prime Minister was forced to expel MP Carolyn Parrish from the Liberal caucus for her most outspoken Bush-hatery. She has been something of a critic of Bush in the past, and said a few undiplomatic things in the wake of the election. I certainly understand and even share her sentiments; I hate damn American bastards too. But perhaps she was a little blunt, a little gauche, when she stomped on a George Bush action figure on an episode of This Hour Has 22 Minutes and then told the Prime Minister to 'go to hell'. Hating the bastards in private is one thing, but that's just silly. That's the sort of thing one expects of a blogger, not a Member of Parliament.
And that's in Canada; you know how passive-aggressive they usually are. Just imagine what the French are saying about us...
Posted by aloysius at November 20, 2004 01:50 PM | TrackBack |