It's not just DU

[pbca]

Granted it doesn't matter as much because most of the people here can't vote but the comments I'm hearing from people in Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver about Obama and Clinton are much the same as DU. The vast majority of them are appalled by the Clinton campaign and have nothing nice to say about Hillary

Canada, by the way, if it were ever to vote in US elections would be 90-95% democrat (with significant support for Nader)

[Sarah Ibarruri]

1. I love Canada, but I might have to rethink that if they agree with that @$$hole, Nader nt

[pbca]

2. It's different here

It's a 5 party system, people tend to vote based on what they really believe deep down - not the realistic chance of victory.

[Sarah Ibarruri]

8. I know. It's one of the reasons I love Canada. Election freedom nt

[mudesi]

17. Nader is a liberal

I know it's tough to comprehend, but he is as liberal as Kucinich, if not more. And the rest of the civilized world, including Canada, is also liberal.

[Sarah Ibarruri]

21. No he's not. I used to believe he was a liberal. He claimed to hate corporations....

but got rich investing in them. Then he took and continues to take action against those who suffer the most in this country. That's not a liberal. That's an asshole.

[hedgehog]

3. I listened to an NPR interview today with the woman who was PM of Canada

back in '93 (Canada had a female PM? I knew we Yanks tend to be pretty ignorant about the goings on up there, but how'd I fail to notice THAT?!?)

Anyways, I was listening and noticing the contrast between this woman and Senator Clinton. I thought that she really had something to say and meant what she said. It was different from the impression Hillary always gives me of saying something because it's been tested and approved.

[Double T]

4. CTV has probably joined the ranks of the US MSM in undermining and destroying HRC.

I'm with MANY of my friends to the NORTH; "(with significant support for Nader)".

[stellanoir]

5. yeah what I get from the international community is that they vastly favor Obama

[Cant trust em]

14. an Irish friend of mine says that Europe favors Clinton

but this was nearly two months ago, so at this point that could be changing. Just like here, actually.

[pbca]

15. It's also Ireland

They give Bill at least partial credit for settling the problems in N.Ireland

[ericgtr]

6. My message board is also filled with Obama vs Hillary people

It's everywhere you go. In fact when they start arguing as they do here, I point them to this site just to show them it's not only on my site lol.

[pbca]

7. Although the Nafta Thing

has ruffled some feathers - it is already perceived up here as leaning heavily in favour of the US, if Obama were to say 're-negotiate or we're out' it might very well mean the end of NAFTA for Canada.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

9. Props to Canada and my relatives in Bala.

[jgraz]

10. We really should grant you guys full statehood one of these days.

:P

[pbca]

11. lol..no thanks

Where's the upside for us?

We live in a country where the Clinton Democrats ARE the right wing.

[jgraz]

12. Can you adopt us then?

Please?

[pbca]

13. I think we'd take

Any state where Ice is a naturally occurring event (not something you make in the fridge) + the west coast. The rest are on their own.

[woolldog]

16. We need to annex Canada

and make each province a state. :toast:

[pbca]

19. Appreciate the invite but

There's no upside. We already have universal health care and gay marriage, we are very welcoming to immigrants, pot is definitely illegal here, but the courts threw the possession laws out as unconstitutional and no new one has been written so...it's kindof defacto legal, I mean if you ask a policeman it's illegal but your chances of getting arrested for possession are almost none.

We have 5 political parties (well 5 big ones, probably 100 small ones that never win anything)

- The Conservatives: Basically run the gamut between Clinton and Leiberman
- The Liberals: Think JFK, FDR, Obama
- The NDP: Think Kucinich
- The Greens: Fairly new, still not winning but growing - think Gore
- The Bloc Quebecois: Imagine if Texas spoke a different language, started their own party that only ran candidates in Texas and then wanted provisions for Texas in every bill that passed (and occasionally threatened to secede) - annoying but very left wing generally.

That's the political spectrum here. I don't see any advantage to Canada in Canada becoming part of the US - that and it will really annoy the thousands of people (myself included) who left the US and came here on purpose, and the military deserters who we're not granting asylum to, but aren't deporting either.

[unkachuck]

18. "Canada,....

by the way, if it were ever to vote in US elections would be 90-95% democrat (with significant support for Nader)"

....I say, we move the Canadian/US border to the Arctic Circle and bring all that good Canadian wisdom to US elections....

....any country Red Green and Possum Lodge calls home, is ok in my book....we'll send Harold to the new Great White North....

[pbca]

20. See above

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=4815929&mesg_id=4826270