An open letter to President Obama and ALL Democrats, from a Canadian.

An open letter to President Obama and ALL Democrats, from a Canadian.

I have been a fan of Barack long before the Primaries. I have followed each and every step very carefully. In fact I am more up to date on your politics than my own here in Canada. Frankly, Canada needs an Obama clone. We have our own version of Bush to contend with right now.

Lately, of course I have been following your incredibly vicious health-care debate. It seems anyone can put out bold faced lies, be (disguised) racists, and even coercing the odd Canadian to pee on their own health-care system. But such is your First Amendment were people can do or say anything they want… without any limits.

I am sensing President Obama, that you are starting to crack regarding the Public Option. If you do cave in, your dream of health-care coverage for all WILL evaporate forever. Mr. President, now is the time to be more determined than EVER and resist the fake hysteria the right wing is generating. The American public will take a while to understand everything about health-care reform.

It is time for you Mr. President, and all Democrats, to get some cojones!

Health-care is a huge and very complex issue. It is starting to sink in slowly, but there are too many Rep/right winger’s throwing “ied’s” and other roadblocks in your path. Resist big pharma, the insurance providers, Wall Street and all the rest. You must.

Health-care for ALL is essential to the US. There MUST be a Public Option, period! All your predictions for the future (if nothing is done) are as bleak as you said it would be, and worse. And they WILL come true. I know businesses that prefer to be in Canada BECAUSE of our health-care system. Don’t blow this chance.

You must be strong and fend off your wealthy or uninformed foes. Middle America (85%) want the Public Option, so be prepared to settle for nothing less. Get the cojones together, and fight this to the bitter end. You have everything to gain, and so does the American public (just some of them don’t know that yet).

Listen America! This is a GOOD thing for you ALL… and it won’t hurt a bit. Go for the GOLD!

IW
Toronto, Canada

(Sent via email to the White House)
August 17, 2009

Barack Obama at 2009 White House Correspondents' Dinner

Parts 1 and 2 will play back to back automatically. Lots of audience reaction shots.

Wanda Sykes at 2009 White House Correspondents' Dinner

Parts 1 and 2 will play back to back automatically. She was brilliant! Lots of audience reaction shots.

An amazing speech Mr. President!

It's one hour long and worth watching every frame. A masterfully executed speech. Historical in every way. At times I forgot I was watching reality. Like a movie. All that was missing was music reaching a soaring crescendo!

Watch the full screen version here CLICK HERE (advisable considering its length)

Or you can watch a smaller version here...

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Proposition 8 - The Musical

(If video is not filling frame, click on "Funny or Die" logo, bottom left in player)

Canada's "Maverick" Prime Minister an embarassment to world

Stephen Harper... The world is laughing at us, because of your actions. What an embarrassment! Just look at what US television thinks...

Four days in Denver - A behind the scenes mini doc - Delightfully real

A behind the scenes look at the Obama family in Denver.
This is what family is all about. Beautifully done. Beautiful family.

Obama/McCain 'Dance Off' video - Brilliant !!!

Watch this brilliantly done video of John McCain and Barack Obama in a 'Dance Off'. A lot of very hard work went into this. Special guest appearance, Tina Fey...err... Sarah Palin. For more interesting videos check out minimovie.com

Canada wishes Obama well

Canada needs someone like Barack... desparately! It is my hope that the Canadian Liberals follow Obama's lead and elect an Obama clone to rescue our government from the clutches of Stephen Harper and his Bush-like cronies and policies. Yes we CANada!!

Colin Powell - The headline says it all - Goodbye McCain

Editorial: The phone call . . . Stephen Harper/George Bush

Harper emulates George Bush. Simple really. Has done so for many years.
Harper is secretive... just like Bush.
Harper twists the truth... just like Bush.
Harper lies like Bush (and McCain).
Harper followed Bush into war.
Canada used to be a nation of peace keepers... now we are targets of aggression.

This will have to do until Canada get's its own version of Obama.

Federal Canadian politics have grown old and stale. It needs an infusion of younger candidates with new, fresh ideas for today's world. Out with the old... In with the new... even if it includes members of my generation.

Follow the spirit of the Obama revolution happening before our eyes in the US. Canada desperately needs to find that very same magic.

Canada doesn't want or need Bush style politics!!

You can STOP Harper by voting strategically. Just enter your postal code HERE to find out the best way to STOP Harper in YOUR riding... Anywhere in Canada
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Over the top, but fun to watch. lol...

Harper = Bush = Harper / Cast your vote wisely . . .

Harper and his LIES

"It's Over: Why Bill Ayers Won't Save John McCain" - Howard Wolfson

"This race will not be decided by lipsticked pigs. And John McCain can not escape that reality. The only unknowns are the size of the margin and the breadth of the Democratic advantage in the next Congress."

Perpetually fretting Democrats will not want to accept it. The campaigns themselves can't afford to believe it. Many journalists know it but can't say it. And there will certainly be some twists and turns along the way. But take it to a well capitalized bank: Bill Ayers isn't going to save John McCain. The race is over.

John McCain's candidacy is as much a casualty of Wall Street as Lehman or Merrill. Like those once vibrant institutions, McCain's collapse was stunning and quick. One minute you are a well-respected brand. The next you are yelling at the messengers of your demise as all around you the numbers start blinking red and stop adding up.

McCain's road was difficult to begin with: the President of his party has had record-low approval ratings for two years and the number of Americans who say the country is heading in the wrong direction is stratospheric. He also had the misfortune to be pitted against an exceptional candidate running an extremely well-executed campaign.

Still, before Wall Street's collapse Senator McCain was ahead. His approval ratings remained high, his VP pick had generated excitement and interest, and his campaign operatives were capable, on any given day, of winning news cycles and giving their opponents fits. And then the underpinnings of American capitalism begin to sink -- and with them sunk McCain.

An election dominated at its inception by the war in Iraq is now overwhelmingly focused on the economy. More than half of voters in polls say that the economy is their top concern and Senator Obama enjoys double digit leads among voters asked who can better fix our economic mess. Put simply, there is no way Senator McCain can win if he continues to trail Senator Obama by double digits on the top concern of more than half of voters.

State polls are beginning to reflect this. If the election were tomorrow, Obama would win all of the states John Kerry carried and add...
Read rest of post HERE

Michael Moore's new movie "Slacker Uprising" free to download !

Young voters in the US have the unique opportunity of deciding the Presidential election, and ending the eight years of turmoil generated by the Bush administration. Official Selection - Toronto Film Festival.

If you are a US citizen... no matter what age, register to vote. YOU have the power to oust the Bush administration, and their vile cronies. Every vote counts, and the world is counting on you to set things straight.

Free download HERE

MaCain's outrageous lies debunked by CNN

Ian Grant Wahn B.A., M.A., LL.B., M.P. - My Dad

Remembering my father, Ian G. Wahn, who passed away on this date in 1999. Couldn't have had a better father. Dad rocked!

Born: April 18, 1916 - Herbert, Saskatchewan, Canada
Died: September 14, 1999 - Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Right on Barack! Go for their Achilles heel(s)!

McCain bottom of the barrel ad against Obama (30sec)

Barack responds (well) to that 30 seconds of trash you just saw...

ARIANNA HUFFINGTON . . . . "PALIN: A TROJAN MOOSE CONCEALING FOUR MORE YEARS OF BUSH"

By: Arianna Huffington
Huffington Post

Did Sarah Palin wrongfully push to have her ex-brother-in law fired? Was she really against the "Bridge to Nowhere?" Did she really sell Alaska's plane on eBay, or just list it on eBay? Did she actually have any substantial duties commanding the Alaska National Guard?

The correct answer to all these questions is: who cares? Which isn't to say these aren't valid questions, or that Palin and the McCain camp aren't playing it fast, loose, and coy with each of them. The point is that Palin, and the circus she's brought to town, are simply a bountiful collection of small lies deliberately designed to distract the country from one big truth: the havoc that George Bush and the Republican Party have wrought, and that John McCain is committed to continuing.

Every second of this campaign not spent talking about the Republican Party's record, and John McCain's role in that record, is a victory for John McCain.

Her critics like to say that Palin hasn't accomplished anything. I disagree: in the space of ten days she's succeeded in distracting the entire country from the horrific Bush record -- and McCain's complicity in it. My friends, that's accomplishment we can believe in.

Just look at the problem John McCain faced. George Bush has a disastrous record, and the country knows it. John McCain -- the current one, not the one who vanished eight years ago -- has no major disagreements with George Bush (and I'm sorry, wanting to fire Donald Rumsfeld a bit sooner doesn't qualify) and wants to continue his incredibly unpopular policies for another four years. The solution? Enter Sarah Palin, a Trojan Moose carrying four more years of disaster.

And the plan has worked beautifully. Just look at what's being discussed just 57 days before the election. Is it the highest unemployment rate in five years? The bailout of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac? The suicide bombing yesterday in Iraq that killed six people and wounded 54 -- in the same market where last month a bomb killed 28 people and wounded 72? That the political reconciliation that was supposedly the point of "the surge" is nowhere near happening? That Iraq's Shiite government is now rounding up the American-backed Sunni leaders of the Awakening? That the reason 8,000 soldiers may be leaving Iraq soon is so more can be deployed to Afghanistan where the Taliban is steadily retaking the country?

No. We're talking about whether Sarah Palin was or was not a good mayor, whether she was or was not a good mother, whether her skirts are too short and her zingers too sarcastic.

Contrary to what we're hearing 24/7 in the media, the next few weeks are not a test of Sarah Palin. The next few weeks are a test of Barack Obama.

He needs to dramatically redirect this election back to a discussion over the issues that really matter -- the issues that will impact the future of this country. A presidential campaign is a battle and this is the time for Obama to show some commander-in-chief skills. I'm not talking about calling Palin out for lying about his record and demeaning community organizing. I'm talking about grabbing the political debate by the throat. The country is already angry about what's happened over the last seven-plus years -- he shouldn't be afraid to give voice to that anger. Obama has spent years adopting a non-threatening persona; but he can't let his fear that appearing like an "angry Black man" (a stereotype not-too-subtly fueled by Fox News) will turn off swing voters keep him from channeling the disgust and outrage felt by so many voters --swing and otherwise.

McCain's team, in an effort to distract, is going to keep doing what they're doing -- diverting voters and the media with a tantalizing combination of personal trivia and small lies. It doesn't matter if they're caught in them -- in fact, all the better. Because they know there is no way in hell they can win if this election is about the big truth of the Bush years.

McCain's real running mate is George Bush and the failed policies of the Republican Party. Even if they are dressed up in a skirt, lipstick, and Tina Fey glasses.

For much, much more go to: The Huffington Post

Question: "Mr McCain, how many houses do you own?" . . .

Answer, "I'm not sure. I will have to ask my staff" "...at least four..."!!!!!

Oh really! Check out Obama's response...