Well, clearly I am going to have to address headers and stories like these:
Hillary Invades Canada!
Canadians hosted hundreds of American air passengers whose planes were grounded on 9/11. They opened their hearts and their homes to us. During the Iranian hostage crisis of 1979-81, fearless Canadian diplomats in Tehran helped smuggle out of that maddened country endangered Americans.None of that seemed to matter this week. Not content with putting an end to America’s historic “special relationship” with Britain, nor with bullying the U.S.’ only reliable ally in the Mideast, Israel, the Obama administration has launched an attack on our Northern neighbor, Canada. Their unguided missile landed squarely on Parliament Hill in Ottawa. It was Hillary.
Hillary reprises `Ugly American’ at G8 summit
What the heck is with the U.S. Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton? Meetings of the type she stormed out of are scheduled months in advance and a list of attendees is available to all.
Well, yes Canada, we do remember all that as well as the hoards of young Americans who rushed to join the RCAF long before Pearl Harbor, and we do appreciate, although it is not mentioned, your harboring of young guys who fled to you when they objected to the war in Viet Nam. The fact that we are friends does not imply total agreement. That is a message we have been hearing consistently throughout the first year and a quarter of this administration, most recently in the wake of the stand-off on the continued building in East Jerusalem. For what it is worth, consistency and even-handedness appear to be an important stanchion in the building code of the Obama administration. All of the stakeholders shou ld have been represented. Anyway, I, personally, am still upset that you guys let the baby seal hunt commence on the day our SOS arrived.
Now as for the “storming out” story. This is the first story I have encountered saying she stormed out. The story does not specify which meeting she “stormed out of” – I doubt it was G8 as the header implies. Sorry about that, guys. She tends to get impassioned – some of us actually LIKE that about her – voted for her because of that. If you do not find her fire for the disenfranchised particularly endearing, well, all I can say is that I am glad she is ours and not yours. We like it and are more than happy to keep her!
I am not pro-abortion, but I am pro-choice and pro-planning. Hillary Clinton is not pro-abortion when unwanted pregnancy can be prevented. She is talking about access to preventive measures, primarily, and abortion as a last resort. Like some men in our own Congress, men in Canada would do well to hear her out on this. She is well-versed on this topic.
Afghanistan? Her job is to try to keep you on board.
I have never seen evidence that some of the 9/11 terrorists did NOT come through Canada. Nine of them lived eight blocks from me. Three (I believe) left Canada on flights to the U.S. If she was wrong about that, I want proof.
Whatever! She looked as charming and diplomatic as ever to me.
So what special friendships were wrecked? Hillary Clinton did not declare war on Canada!
Then there arrived this: In which Hillary Clinton speaks for Canada
Update: Lawrence Cannon does not think any of this was a big deal, and agrees that the maternal health issues needs to be revisited by Canada.
Just a note: CBC, my former haven from the sexism everywhere on NPR since the early 1980s, has gone shrilly anti-woman since the lockout in 2005 (2006?). Seems they’ve made the same losing bet NPR did when Regan slashed their funding: ditch women and hope the guys will pay for you.
Just one example among many: in 2008, Neil McDonald published a piece strongly condemning racist epithets, but quoted without comment the use of the word bitch to refer to Hillary Clinton in a later article. Even Henry Champ has become strongly, if without any stated basis, anti-Hillary.
It seems to be part of their general coverage where men like Rpbert Picton are given a pass for the cold blooded murder of many women but girls as young as sixteen are named, front-paged, photographed and hysterically condemned for any act of violence. CBC and the Star seem almost to be calling for the return of capital punishment for girls and women only.
Unfortunately Canada, with its Bushesque PM and Reidesque Liberals like BCs Gordon Campbell, may seem more liberal than the US only because it has a twenty to thirty year lag time.
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Wow! Seriously scary stuff!
Yes, now that you mention it I see Harper and Dubya similarities.
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