It is not encouraging for McCain-Palin ticket when the Anchorage Daily News is even backing Obama. Too hard not to see the face and fictions of George Bush when you think of McCain as the faux-maverick.
Will Canada reject the radical right and return to its classic liberal values in the next election? I'm thinking so. Tough times ahead and we see a legitimate role for government in this country. We in Canada cringe at the thought that a government that redistributes wealth for the common good is somehow acting inappropriately "Socialist." This socialist labelling is the most recent reactive foray by McCain into attacking Obama as not being fit for governing.
Labels and misleading memes seem to be the essence of the Republican and other far-right Conservative political tactics these days. It is getting "old" in America and is seen as dangerous domestically and in foreign policy approaches too. Lets hope Canada returns to it socially progressive and fiscally conservative roots coupled with a political passion for the planet as a renewed common cause.
The political centre has been progressively moving to the right ever since the Reagan years. The left is irrelevant and passe.
ReplyDeleteAgreed but now it is moving back to the centre with the advent of Obama.
ReplyDelete"Labels and misleading memes seem to be the essence of the Republican and other far-right Conservative political tactics these days."
ReplyDeleteNearly every single one of your blog posts about the PM makes the assinine comparison of Stephen Harper to George W. Bush.
And you say misleading labels are the exclusive property of the right ...
Give me a break.
When Palin was asked what newspapers she regularly reads by Katie Couric, Palin was non-committal and could not think of any. A few days later she said she read the New York Times, Washington Post and Economist. I was shocked that she did not mention an Alaskan newsapaper. I guess they don't like each other.
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