Canada Punks Palin. Again!
Last time it was two DJs from Montreal who cooked up a prank that had Sarah Palin VP candidate on the phone with someone she thought was French President Nicholas Sarkozy. Not so, much to the amusement of many.
This time it’s comedian Mary Walsh in her character ‘Marg Delahunty’ that got the last laugh. She asked Sarah Palin if she had any words of encouragement for conservative Canadians about their socialized health care.
Of course, our neighbors to the north (or in my case, to the east) are basically pretty happy with their health care system, and look at ours with even more horror and disgust than we do.
Palin strolled over, looking down on Walsh and her crew to tell them that “Canada needs to dismantle its public health-care system and allow private enterprise to get involved and turn a profit.”
“Basically, she said government should stop doing the work that private enterprise should do,” Walsh said.
In addition to those comments, Walsh said, she found it equally bizarre that no one was allowed to ask Palin any questions at the book-signing.
“It was great fun, but also very strange,” Walsh recalled.
“We’re in a bookstore, at a public event, in a place one would think was a bastion of free speech. And no one was allowed to ask questions. What are they afraid of?”
They are afraid, my Canadian friend, that she will answer them.
So, yet again Canada comes through and gives us all a chuckle. It makes me proud that I can see Canada from my house.
It was a real gotcha question.
Canada has earned the right to give her 1/2 a peace sign. What a complete jacka$$ $P is.
You notice how they just walked right in past uniformed security etc, and were very close out back as well. I guess all you have to do is look like a news crew. I would not be happy with the security.
Palin never follows the rules, so why shouldn’t the peons ask her questions anyway? I’m just sayin’.
We all know Sarah lives in an alternate universe — up is down, down is up and so on …
Also, too, when all else fails, just make things up.
I just found this piece from the Onion that pretty much describes the Palin approach to facts: http://www.theonion.com/content/news/area_man_passionate_defender_of
Here’s a sample:
“Our very way of life is under siege,” said Mortensen, whose understanding of the Constitution derives not from a close reading of the document but from talk-show pundits, books by television personalities, and the limitless expanse of his own colorful imagination. “It’s time for true Americans to stand up and protect the values that make us who we are.”
Sound familiar?
I just posted in my blog:
Ms. Twitta-Quitta, why don’t ya quit making ”backasswards” noncommonsensical nuggets, and while you are at it, read my lips, or have your lovely Piper help you with this…..
KEEP YOUR MAB OFF MY COUNTRY AND MY HEALTHCARE!!
Oh excuse me, we Canadians are very polite by nature, so allow me to re-phrase that…..
Please Keep Your Moose Addled Brain Off My Country And My Healthcare!!
You can read the entire post here: http://thedailypingpong.wordpress.com/
/ Mia
Stories from Democrats Abroad (Canada). Read, watch, understand why universal health care coverage is the way of the future. Public option is not good enough for my dear muddy friends. It’s a start only. http://healthcare.democratsabroad.ca/share-your-canadian-health-care-story/
I was amused by Mary Walsh and her bout with Sarah. ——It brings another question to mind. Is there anyone out there that has a problem connecting to the Greta Wire blog? Anytime I try to log on to this site, my computer locks-up. I am beginning to think I have been blocked off altogether. Or am I being paranoid? I try to refrain from watching G’s show, as I sit and yell at her and her guests. GRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!
OMG GOP WTF?
Nothing “gotcha” about it really, she just kept yelling until she got an answer! Our “Marg” aka Mary Walsh has long experience dealing with politicians.
OMG, that’s hysterical! I’m very glad I can see Canada from my house too. A BIG shout out to my neighbors to the north.
I’m Canadian. Mary Walsh is one of our most famous comediennes, and This Hour Has 22 Minutes is our equivalent of The Daily Show.
That is a gotcha question. In a land of free speech, in a public place, Palin is allowed to stomp on the 1st amendment rights of other citizens? What would happen if someone challenged this? Besides filling the world with yet more news of Palin, rather than vets’ rights or exposes of Blackwater?
All the same, this is a 1st amendment issue — and if there is an actual piece of paper with this prohibition, from the Palin camp, and someone does challenge it in person — we have a way to shut down her whole tour. Because she’d quit before being put in the position of having to face questions.
Any volunteers? Because I’m nowhere near a Palinesque part of America.
palin should have watched greta tonight…karl (marx) rove thought he was cleverly making a snide point re: Prez Obama’s slide in poll popularity vs palin’s increase, leaving only a 9 point separation between the two…greta (in a rare & subtle palin slam) told rove that Obama has to make important decisions and therefore wouldn’t make a lot of friends…or words to that affect…even rove said there was a real difference in selling books to running for Prez (considering seriousness & intellectual ‘bandwidth’) and how you shouldn’t do both at the same time.
…the pendulum swings
Sarah never disappoints does she. The tighter you wind that key in her back the more nonsense she spouts.
Sarah is supposed to have international expertise becasue foreign countries are Alaska’s closest neighbors. So she should know that Canadians are pretty happy with their health care.
It bed time EST. This song has been going through my head all day so I will pass it on to the mud flats to sing it to sleep or wake up to.
And have a great and huggy Thanksgiving – everyone.
Good morning starshine
The earth says hello
You twinkle above us
We twinkle below
Good morning starshine
You lead us along
My love and me as we sing
Our early morning singing song
I just cannot find the words. Well I can, but those would put me in moderation. How did this ignorant woman get so far? How many f###ing lemmings are ready to follow her off a cliff?
Even after this episode, her followers will blindly listen to her. She can at least say that she is not familiar in that subject, but I guess “I don’t know” is not part of her answers.
Great Happy Thanksgiving letter from Margaret & Helen. She talks about Palin briefly there. http://margaretandhelen.wordpress.com/2009/11/18/thanksgiving-letter-to-the-family-2009/#comments
Happy Thanksgiving Mudflatters. Cheers
There’s a great post about Trooper Wooten on HP with a HT to mudflats in the comments.
Hee, Marg Warrior Princess strikes again!!
What did we all do before Sarah Palin? So will this spoof be in her next book so she can put her own spin on it, or should we look to FB for a rebuttal? I am amazed at how much credence she is given. One could only hope that she would fade away – or better yet – spend time in jail, where she could WRITE her own book. Please God! Bring all her deception into the light!
Happy Thanksgiving All! I am most thankful she is not among my relatives, and is not the VP, for sure.
Palin will just cry victim…..again….John McCain will defend her….again…..her rabid fans will cry our for Saint Sarah to save them….again.
But, her stupidity has no bounds.
Now, she has the nerve, to tell other countries how to run their country…and she couldn’t even stick around to run Alaska. Good Gawd.
What a sad, bitter, ignorant, pathetic excuse for a human being.
LOL! Oh wow! I just got home from a horrible last 3 hours of work. I was not looking forward to working tomorrow or the problems arising and then… I turn my computer on, check mudflats and… voila! A nice little laugh and I feel better. Thanks for the uplift!
Poor Sarah, I almost (!) pity her. She is so unfit for the league she is playing in. It can be really hard to draw a professional politician into making a careless statement, especially when he/she can SEE the camera. Our sarah couldn’t help herself, the way a fish can’t help striking at a lure, the way a kitten can’t not play w/ a piece of dangled string. Some total stranger shoves a mic at her, & starts barking Conservative code-words, & she opens her yap. Again. Oops. She has no political future- check out Matt Taibbi at http://www.trueslant.com (“Yes, Sarah, there is a media conspiracy”)- & likely doesn’t want one. By 2012, she’ll be co-hosting The 700 Club. Sic transit gloria mundi!
Just saw the comments from Trooper Wooten on the Huf Po. He does not mince words about how he feels about the Palin/Heath families. I hope he sues.
@ Chris
Couldn’t care less about her whack job followers – they are long lost to reason, real knowledge and open hearts. They live in a carefully contrived reality and are easily manipulated and lied to. Many lack ethics and a sense of right and wrong – they are just like her. Many just don’t know any better and have been successfully brainwashed by their churches. She makes these people comfortable with their stupidity just like Reagan made people comfortable with their prejudices (Rosalyn Carter).
It’s every one else that that needs to know Sarah in all of her snotty, lying, overly ambitious glory. Anyone with a shadow of a doubt needs to know. And we need to prove her to be a pathological liar with a dangerous agenda. But it’s certainly OK in my book to have a lot of laughs at her expense along the way! Keeps us fresh for the fight.
Mary Walsh is one of our national treasures.
So, Sarah says, Canada needs to dismantle it’s health care system to turn a profit for those greedy insurance companies. Wow. Have seen and lived on both sides of the border. Our private health insurer in the States had so many deductibles. I had a flu once and it cost me $750 for a 3 hour visit to have IV fluids, because I was dehydrated. This was during hubby’s layoff. No insurance. We lived on pins and needles, with worry, which in itself causes health problems.
In Canada, we are very blessed, and no one in their right mind (like SP) would try to dismantle a system that provides it’s people with PEACE OF MIND, which reduces stress, and worry from already economically-challenging times. Yes, our taxes are higher, but the reassurance knowing if one takes a fall down a flight of stairs, has a stroke, illness, emergency surgery, the ambulance will be right there, and whatever treatments are necessary are done, and NO BILL in the mail.
Sarah, go read a book.
Did anyone else find it just a bit creepy (although certainly not surprising) that both answers were given in almost exactly the SAME WORDS. Not even just the same idea…exactly the same words in the same order with the same inflection. I know she’s got no original thoughts of her own and has to rely on her right wingnut talking points but that’s just eerie.
‘Stepford Republican’ perhaps?
BTW, Happy Thanksgiving to you folks. May your thoughts turn to sweet remembrances of Thanksgivings past.
rebekkah,
Reminds me of that joke, “How do you hide something from Sarah Palin?”
Put it in a book
Makes me proud to be a Canadian.. I wonder if Rick mercer will take a run at her he did such a great job on Bush in 2000…:)
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I will soon be doing more of my part while traveling to the states. All I have to do is tell people I’m from Alaska and they immediately bring up Palin. We’ve gotten our licks in trashing her during the last year on every trip we took south, and the satisfaction never stops! Pretty fun, eh?
It might be a fine thing that you can see Canada from your house, but Mary is from Newfoundland – clear on the other side of the continent. A province where most of the population, until recently, relied on fishing to make their living and where every inhabitant can recognize a dead fish, metaphorically or real, when they see it and can spot someone faking it in hip waders for reporters. (Watch those clips again and you can see that Sarah Palin knows as much about fishing as she knows about child raising – not much beyond the photo op.)
What makes this post more ironic is the paper you link to, the Edmonton Sun who reports the story favourable to Mary, is part of the syndicate of Canada’s populist right wing paper. Their readers are as close to the tea partiers as we get here and even they won’t slam our public health insurance system too hard. Why would anyone when the annual premium, in Ontario for someone paying taxes whose income is above a certain threshold high enough to exclude almost all students, seniors, people with disabilities and low income earners, is $300. Some provinces don’t charge anything.
And Mary, in her role of Marg Delahunty who usually dresses as a middle age Zena Warrior Princess complete with sword, has access to every politician in Canada. With sword raised high, she cuts through any media scrum she wants to interview them face to face and when she questions them the gloves are off. She has had slumber parties with the leaders of opposition parties which she films and shows on air.
I just hope the security people denying reporters access to Palin didn’t push her too hard. She has a bad back and Canadians are fairly protective of her. She is like one of us: an average-Joe-six-pack and we have better beer. She would know her hockey, supports our troops, and always tells it like it is. She roots out corruption in politics and the corporate world. She is filled with common sense and knows what it is like to be main street, even if it only consists of a co-op on the corner of the only intersection in town. She eats cod’s tounges and drinks Screech. Her high popularity here has never taken a plunge.
Perhaps we should run her for Prime Minister.
so did sarah have a heads up on this particular punk? or not…..
Rick Mercer? That would be fun.
I found this on youtube while surfing the internet. Sarah speaking at her church telling the members they are “cool looking Christians”. There is no separation of church and state for the Quitter.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmlJfkhyNdc
My Canadian wife nearly coughed up her spleen when she heard Palin’s suggestions for Canadians.
So, Sarah’s brainpower has determined that Canadians should voluntarily lower their life expectancy, raise their infant mortality rate, decrease coverage, and make it more expensive, even unaffordable to as many as 40% of its citizens. Gee, I can’t figure out why the Canadians aren’t dismantling their healthcare system as we speak.
Palin is an imbecilic twit.
Canada has a great sense of humor and I especially love your “boldness”. Thank you for giving us a much needed laugh after the barragge of Palin news with her mini-campaign disguised as “book signing” tour.
I would LOVE to see Rick Mercer skewer this broad…then again, “princess” does that to herself every time she opens that festering maw of hers. He’ll catch her yet!
She is a total twit. What cheek – telling the Canadians they should dismantle their public health care system? HA! What a moron.
Guess she didn’t the newspapers and magazines documenting Canadian’s national pride in their health care system.
Next she’ll be telling the Brits and the Aussies to get rid of their public health care!
No thanks Palin – stay away from the Commonwealth please, we’re doing just fine! hahahhaha Idiot.
And oh – happy thanksgiving to my American Mudpups!
I’ll be headed to Indianapolis for the weekend and looking forward to a relaxing weekend of eating and…..more eating.
Is Sarah from Fargo???
That accent of hers sure sounds like it for sure, what’s up with that???
Proves how stupid she really is when she can not even spot being punked and her helpers can’t either.
Hope it happens again and often LOL.
True narcissists see admirers in every crowd because they’re projecting their own self-admiration on the crowd. The painting of Narcissus gazing lovingly into the reflecting pool is an apt metaphor for this phenomenon. That’s why narcissists are so easy to punk.
Fellow Canadians, though we love our healthcare, Canada is turning into almost as much of a whack job country with these freaks in power. Let’s not be smug but vigilent and stop thinking that sun shines out of our arses as it really doesn’t..we are so backwards in the world now and growing ever more dimwitted by the day.
Right on Marg! We love you. Here she dresses as the Warrior Princess and actually holds her plastic sword blade to the throats of politicians. Guess she thought that might land her in a pickle with dear vicious Sarah.
My first thought when I heard her statement was “Oh crap. Now I won’t be able to go to that beautiful country next door that is Canada and her people because the Canadians will just close the border…” ha, ha, than I thought “And what-exactly-gives her the right to make any comment whatsoever about Canada or its healthcare system as if she were some kind of expert?” Yes- free speech allows her to blabber whatever she wants (unfortunately). Makes you wonder how many insurance companies are subsidizing her crazy…
Canadians are great. You all crack me up.
Living in Ontario, I made a doctor’s apt. (with our family doctor) for myself this Monday…my apt was scheduled for this Wednesday (yesterday) at 3:20…After seeing the Dr. promptly at 3:20 (it is common with our medical group to see the doctor very close to the time of your appointment but I will admit that on rare occasions I’ve had to wait a short period of time), I was on my way back home by 3:45. All is well…no long wait time; no unfamiliar medical professional examining me, just my family’s GP (who often asks how other members of the family are doing and who phoned me after my last mammogram to let me know that everything was OK–and I do not have a bad history here, she just wanted to set my mind at ease); no co-pay and no bill in the end.
So what exactly does Palin want to change about Canadian health care?
@43, Lee, Nice insight. So true.
I do wish someone from Canada would write an editorial about Sarah, saying stay out of our healthcare, moran (new offical teabagger spelling).
I may need to move to Canadia… they seem like fun people.
Gotcha again, stupid. Or is it now, Gotcha again, Palin(again)?
Mary Walsh, a great canadian. Of course, there are virtually no canadians who want to be like us. Didn’t ya hear Sarah, GM just gave another big car contract to Canada. Their health care is cheaper, so it’s cheaper to build stuff up there, doncha know.
This sage advice comes months after her plea to President Obama to improve our country’s relationship with Canada.
I think everything was fine until her health care revelation yesterday.
Her indulgent arrogance and capitalist superiority is simply astounding!
Happy Thanksgiving MudPups, at least she’s not telling it from the VP’s office.
I hail from Montreal, Quebec, Canada and am a big fan of Mudflats for a while now. Thank you for your kind words about your Canadian neighbour.
Far from being a Palin fan, I am so proud of the fact we have been able to dupe the infamous crackpot from Wasilla. Our Mary Walsh is a wonderful comedian – she is such a hoot! You can’t help laugh at this latest episode as many Canadians think she is a total farce! We just keep shaking our heads in disbelief that she was so close to the Presidency. Argggg!
I’m equally a proud supporter of our health care system. And as you pointed out, more than a majority of us Canadians are. I do hope my neighbouring American friends are successful in obtaining your much improved healthcare system as we do. Keep up the fight! You are making a difference!
From Mary Walsh:
“In addition to those comments, Walsh said, she found it equally bizarre that no one was allowed to ask Palin any questions at the book-signing.
“It was great fun, but also very strange,” Walsh recalled.
“We’re in a bookstore, at a public event, in a place one would think was a bastion of free speech. And no one was allowed to ask questions. What are they afraid of?”
http://www.torontosun.com/news/canada/2009/11/24/11913421-cp.html
“Gasman Says: My Canadian wife nearly coughed up her spleen when she heard Palin’s suggestions for Canadians.
So, Sarah’s brainpower has determined that Canadians should voluntarily lower their life expectancy, raise their infant mortality rate, decrease coverage, and make it more expensive, even unaffordable to as many as 40% of its citizens. Gee, I can’t figure out why the Canadians aren’t dismantling their healthcare system as we speak.”
That was too funny. Thank you. I live in Montreal and I agree the Canadian Health Care System is not perfect but I would never want to go back to the U.S. one. I lived in Las Vegas for a decade and health insurance was horrible.
What strikes me as odd is she is wanting private companies to make a profit on people’s health. Really? And nobody is calling her out of it? She is not saying they need to go private for better care or access or shorter waiting list. No. Go private so companies can turn a profit? That is disgusting.
Mary Walsh and Rick Mercer started on This Hour Has 22 Minutes in 1993.
The format of The Daily show is taken directly from this program.
They excelled in spoofing/pranking Canadian and American politicians, but Mercer’s “Talking to Americans” was the most popular.
Here is the YouTube link to hilarious video clips of the program:
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Talking+To+Americans+Rick+Mercer&search_type=&aq=f
Rick Mercer ran the Talking to Americans interviews
asking Americans what they felt about the Russian invasion of Chechnya and Saskatchewan.
persuading Americans that Canada is getting a five-dollar coin. It would have had a maple leaf on it and it would have been called the “woodie”.
getting several Americans to say that Edmonton should be bombed.
telling residents of Chicago that Canada was considering changing its name to Chicago, and asking them what they felt about that idea.
asking if Americans should try to liberate Nelson Mandela.
persuading Americans to congratulate Canada on legalizing VCRs or adopting the 24-hour day (ex-Iowa Governor Tom Vilsack was fooled by this one).
various political controversies involving one or more Canadian provinces.
congratulating the Canadian government on building a dome over its “national igloo” (apparently a downsized version of the United States Capitol made out of ice) to protect it from global warming (one of the interview subjects so fooled was Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee, of whom Mercer later stated in an interview, had asked off-camera if this was a “controversial igloo”).
(Huckabee is as dumb as Palin)
agreeing that the U.S. should bomb Saskatchewan or send ground troops into Gilles Duceppe.
having Americans congratulate Canada on legalizing insulin (although it was a Canadian who first discovered the substance).
proposing the idea that a Canadian company actually had the mining rights to Mount Rushmore due to the plutonium within (plutonium is also a synthetic element).
suggesting that when Canada would make a replica of Mount Rushmore, they might add William Howard Taft, Richard Nixon, and Brian Mulroney – at one point, a woman objected to Taft, saying that he did not best display American qualities, but she was fine with adding Brian Mulroney, former Prime Minister of Canada.
congratulating Canada for getting its first university.
congratulating Canada for getting a grade 9 and a volunteer fire station.
changing the words in the Canadian Anthem and asking Americans to sing it.
congratulating Canada for officially joining North America.
congratulating Canada on reaching a population of 1,000,000, even though Canada has a population of over 30,000,000.
controversy around the reconstruction of the historic “Peter Mann’s Bridge”, named after “Prime Minister Peter Mann” (actually a pun on the name of Canadian journalist Peter Mansbridge).
asking if Jean Chrétien-Pinochet should be charged with crimes against humanity.
asking students and professors at Columbia University to sign a petition asking Canadians to discontinue the practice of abandoning the elderly on ice floes.
congratulating Prime Minister Tim Horton on getting a double-double (a coffee with two creams and two sugars or, according to Mercer, ‘support on both sides of Congress’).
congratulating Canada on legalizing the stapler.
the coronation of Svend Robinson as King Svend I.
congratulating Canada for moving the capital city from Kingston, Ontario to Toronto (the actual capital is Ottawa, and then-Vice President Al Gore failed to correct Mercer regarding Toronto being the capital).
asking university students and professors to sign a petition against the Saskatchewan seal hunt and the Toronto polar bear hunt.
asking Americans how many states Canada has (Canada has provinces and territories, not states).
wishing Canadians a “Happy Stockwell Day”.
congratulating Canadians on classifying Labrador Retrievers as elephants as to prevent them from being used for hard labour.
congratulating the newly-elected prime minister of Chinese descent.
tricking Americans into thinking that Canada did not have “high-tech” things such as airplanes, paved roads or FM radio.
asking if Canada should replace its propeller planes with jet planes.
saying that the country was allowing its Irish citizens to vote, stating that it was previously prevented by the French Canadian separatist movement.
stating that in the last 30 years Canadians did not have any election recounts because Canadians use birch branches or pine cones as voting tokens.
congratulating Canadians on offering bilingual tours of Joe Clark’s Hole.
asking if Canada should have a navy even though it is a land-locked country.
(Canada is not in fact landlocked, it has the longest coastline of any nation, having shores on the Atlantic, Pacific, and Arctic Oceans, and has a navy, the Canadian Forces Maritime Command or MARCOM)
Professors at Columbia, Harvard, and Stanford University were consistently fooled by absurdities such as the “Saskatchewan seal hunt”.
The only Americans who were shown outsmarting Mercer were: a university student who spent her time laughing at him (before finally answering), and a small child who pointed out to his mother, who was also tricked, that Canada had provinces, not states.
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The most famous segment, aired in 2000, featured Mercer asking then-presidential candidate George W. Bush – who had previously stated that “you can’t stump me on world leaders” – for his reaction to an endorsement by Canadian Prime Minister “Jean Poutine”.
Bush said he looked forward to working together with his future counterpart to the north, praising free trade and Canada.
That said, Bush never actually used the name of Poutine and only failed to correct Mercer on the name. A few years later, when Bush made his first official visit to Canada, he said during a speech, “There’s a prominent citizen who endorsed me in the 2000 election, and I wanted a chance to finally thank him for that endorsement. I was hoping to meet Jean Poutine.”
What arrogant gall that woman has. Imagine telling Canada now to dismantle their successful system so some privateer can make a PROFIT????!!!!
Palin Punked, could go on forever, she just doesn’t get it and never will. She is unteachable and at her age that could be a sign of early dementia – or continuing dementia – born that way and nothing will help her.
She was a special needs child with eyes that didn’t track and no one got her the special care she needed…huh? So forever after she see things all lop-sided and askew and developed her mentality to match. What the hell, hide it with glasses and go forth to destroy everything in your path…you can always claim that your life is run by God, so anything you do is what God wanted you to do…also. This makes your enemies, God’s enemies, so there na na.
Huffington post now has this story and the trolls are out big time defending Palin saying that she is right….Canada is going broke…bla, bla, and they can’t afford healthcare anymore…bla, bla, bla.
Mind you, these are American right wingnuts who are spewing off about Canada and things they know nothing about.
If you are Canadian, you might just wonder over there and put some truth out for those trolls to read.
Mary Walsh and Rick Mercer started on This Hour Has 22 Minutes in 1993.
The format of The Daily show is taken directly from this program.
They excelled in spoofing/pranking Canadian and American politicians, but Mercer’s “Talking to Americans” was the most popular.
Here is the YouTube link to hilarious video clips of the program:
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Talking+To+Americans+Rick+Mercer&search_type=&aq=f
Rick Mercer ran the Talking to Americans interviews
congratulating the Canadian government on building a dome over its “national igloo” (apparently a downsized version of the United States Capitol made out of ice) to protect it from global warming (one of the interview subjects so fooled was Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee, of whom Mercer later stated in an interview, had asked off-camera if this was a “controversial igloo”).
(Huckabee is as dumb as Palin)
The most famous segment, aired in 2000, featured Mercer asking then-presidential candidate George W. Bush – who had previously stated that “you can’t stump me on world leaders” – for his reaction to an endorsement by Canadian Prime Minister “Jean Poutine”.
Bush said he looked forward to working together with his future counterpart to the north, praising free trade and Canada.
Wow! Lots of Canucks here, eh. Without election reform, changing the healthcare system in the US is just about impossible. Too many of your politicians care more about election funding that they do about their constituents. As a Canadian, I cannot fathom how any person with the ability to support a public healthcare option which will save lives and improve the standard of living for so many can harden their heart and LIE about the situation. I am so sorry that for so many million Americans, employed or not, your lives and the future of your families are of such little value to the insurance industry and your elected officials. What is freedom or the pursuit of liberty without LIFE. I am appalled by your system and honestly Republican or Democrat, without election reform, without removing the ability of corporate American to control the way your government treats its citizens nothing, I’m sad to say, will change.
Unfortunately foe $’err0r, Canada’s health care has no cure for hoof in mouth disease.
Not even the insurance company owned health care of the USA can’t cure it either.
Tell ‘em, Marge!
It has been a very long couple of weeks and I have much catching up to do, but thanks, AKM for this line:
“They are afraid, my Canadian friend, that she will answer them.”
That was the truth and the laugh I much needed this evening.