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Originally Posted by Keith P.
^^^ This. All true, and an excellent post. Thank you Mr. May.
I fear that the election of Trudeau is Canada's equivalent to the USA electing Obama, perhaps the most ineffective and divisive President in that country's history. The similarities of the campaign and surge in public opinion leading up to election day are very close. I suspect the results after he is done will be equally bad for the country.
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LOL.
Oh come on. I presume, Keith, you remember how Bush left things in 2008? Financial system on verge of collapse. Economy tanking. Unemployment skyrocketing. Tens of millions without health insurance. Two ongoing wars.
Obama saved the financial system from collapse. Has turned the economy around, with hundreds of thousands of jobs being added monthly. The unemployment rate in the U.S. is back to what it was when the last time there was a decent economy in the U.S. -- Clinton, a Democrat, was in power. Tens of millions more Americans now have health care coverage thanks to Obamacare and Obama has brought a level of sobriety to a previously out of control American foreign policy. He even got Bin Laden, which Bush couldn't do because he was too busy trying to start other wars.
The only reason Obama has been "divisive" is because Republicans understood the threat he posed as a post-Boomer and post-partisan President, and set out to deny him every single potential political victory. They opposed him on everything he has done, seeking no compromise or middle ground. Obamacare was originally based on Romneycare, a Republican plan pitched in the 1990s). But not a single Republican voted for it.
This is nothing new. It's all been reported on. Washington Post has reported on this in a series of articles in 2011, about how the "Young Guns"-- new young GOP congressmen Paul Ryan, Kevin McCarthy, and Eric Cantor-- decided on the very night of Obama's inauguration to recruit tea parties and oppose Obama on everything.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/...howdown/2011/08/03/gIQA9uqIzI_story.html
There are also books written about it: "The New New Deal: The Hidden Story of Change in the Obama Era "
http://www.amazon.com/The-New-Deal-Hidden-Change/dp/1451642326
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Not long after the 2008 election, after his party had promoted him to minority whip, Virginia Rep. Eric Cantor summoned a few colleagues to his condo. The topic: How Republicans could take back Congress, as soon as possible. We’re not here to cut deals and get crumbs and stay in the minority for another 40 years,” he told them, according to some later reporting by Time’s Michael Grunwald. “We’re going to fight these guys. We’re down, but things are going to change.” The party would deny President Obama any bipartisan cover on his policies, and then it would beat him. Source: http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_p...d_the_house_majority_leader_lose_to.html
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The Republican Party has been radicalized since George W. Bush's Presidency, with moderates disappearing.
But that's not Obama's fault. It's because the GOP base has become radical. Look at whom Republican voters are today supporting for 2016: Trump and Carson, two clueless clowns, spewing racist and ridiculous policies daily.
If Trudeau turns out to be our version of Obama, then that would be an excellent result.
Thankfully, we can trust the wisdom of Canadian voters, who turfed out our own divisive clown, Harper.
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