the outcome of the election

[Skandranon]

Ok.  Hope you enjoy it when your close-mindedness and unilateral thuggery land you in the thick of a nasty, nasty mess.

Aren't we getting just a little vitriolic here? Discussion is good, but this isn't discussion. Internal politics are internal issues, anyway, and I don't think any of us outside the USA have a right to complain or condemn the people for voting the way they chose to vote. I have concerns about Bush's approach to foreign policy, too, but there are better ways to express it.

Canada will be dragged along with you.  Britain might jump out just in time.  I thought that maybe the time had come, and that the people would realize what was really going on in the world.  I guess I hoped for too much.  Seems that it will take the utter decimation of the American world-standing for change to come, but it WILL come. 

Actually, Canada will do quite nicely out of this. Better than if Kerry was elected. Bush isn't going to stop outsourcing, and we Canadians get lots of outsourcing jobs. He isn't going to steal our drugs with plans like Kerry's confoundingly illogical reimportation idea, and he's definitely more likely than Kerry to let Albertan beef back into the U.S. market. Quite simply, Bush is good for the Canadian economy. And it isn't as if he's enforcing a gay marriage ban up here. I may not agree with America's conservative social values, but they are, after all, America's values, and unlikely to have too much impact up here. The only real negative is missile defence, and that's just the price of doing business. China, by the way, is taking a real interest in Canada as well, so we'll have the world's fastest-growing economy to pick up any slack America's market might leave.

Canada's future looks sunny. Our economy is humming along even with an 18 cent increase in the dollar holding down exports. We're still reporting surpluses, paying down debt, increasing programme spending. What's not to like? Cheer up, Chaerophon. Optimism! You know, that's one thing I've always respected about the NDP. Their policies might be on the imaginative side, but they've always been willing to dream. We need some more of that.