Paul Revere by Cyrus Dallin, North End, Boston

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Thursday, February 19, 2009

OBAMAMANIA HITS CANADA!



From CNN's Ed Henry's twitter:


Along motorcade route, one handmade sign said, "After God, It's Obama".


Sharp contrast from protests here in Bush years.


Today, President Obama arrived in Canada, his first foreign trip since taking office. Already, the trip is a stark departure from the Bush years. U.S. presidents have traditionally made their first trip abroad to Canada. President Bush, however, broke with tradition and headed south to Mexico.


Already, there’s been a noticeable difference in the way the Canadian public has received the two presidents. Bush was wildly unpopular in Canada. Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper, who supported the Iraq war (and later admitted it was a mistake), was lambasted by Canadians as supporting “Harper-Bush” policies. Not surprisingly, Bush’s visits to Canada spurred massive protests.

Early Crowds Await Obama,” the Toronto Star reads today.

American flags are being hung up around Ottawa in preparation” for Obama’s visit, reports the Ottawa Citizen.


How wonderful it is that our neighbors and other people around the world actually respect and like our leader again.

7 comments:

Joe "Truth 101" Kelly said...

I figured all the Canadians would have been in the United States looking for better health care according to the right wingers.

dmarks said...

No, the Canadians just rely on their American friends to send them supplies and money because the national healthcare monopoly in Canada does not work well.

Arthurstone said...

dmarks-

Heh. Heh.

Canada has a longer life expectancy and lower infant mortality while spending considerably less than the US as a percentage of GDP and per capita.

Joe "Truth 101" Kelly said...

That explains all the Canadians lined up outside the hospital in Rochester NY when I was there for a family reunion. Never saw so many sick Canadians in my life. They were begging to pay any amount to open up and say "aaahhh."

dmarks said...

Arthur: I mentioned that because I've actually been on the sending end of that situaton, for a friend who was screwed by the Canadian system.

Anonymous said...

What a great relief to have someone as smart and elegants as President Obama to represent us around the world.

That idiot, Dubya, was an embarrassment to our nation.

Only the yahoos thought he was great. The rest of the world laughed at the dope.

Anonymous said...

It differs depending on where in Canada you live. Some have it better than others. The wait times in emergency rooms are almost exactly like our wait times but they seem to wait longer for specialists. They have a shortage of doctors. Doesn't mean our system would be the same. Pessimism doesn't help. It's easy for those of us to yell and scream about socialized medicine when we have coverage and get good care. Nobody seems to give a crap about those who go without. I actually care about my fellow Americans. The Repubs do not.