Kerry speaks French better than Bush speaks English....Dean in Canada.

SNIP..."After correctly assessing that "the vast majority of us" would like to see John Kerry the next President of the United States, Dean pandered to an audience whose mother tongue is French.

"I know the Bush administration makes fun of (Kerry’s) ability to speak French. I find that is an incredible advantage over a president who can barely speak English," he said to laughter and guffaws.

http://www.torontofreepress.com/2004/cover102704.htm

SNIP.."Dean was in friendly territory. Seventy-one percent of La Belle Province residents, compared with 60 percent of Canada as a whole, would vote for Kerry, if only they could.

Dean was received as a conquering hero in the ballroom of Montreal’s ritzy Queen Elizabeth Hotel. The former Vermont governor sat at the head table sandwiched between Gilles Duceppe, leader of the Bloc Quebecois, and Raymond Chrétien, nephew of former Prime Minister Jean Chrétien. As Canadian ambassador to the United States, the junior Chrétien publicly expressed his support for Al Gore over Bush in 2000...."

SNIP.."Incredibly, the man whose own party decided he was a bit too loose cannon to run for president, accused Bush of petulance: "I’ve often said on my side of the border, and I’ll say on your side of the border, no matter what our differences may be, and there will be some, that petulance has no place in the design of American foreign policy."





Pics are from Yahoo news.

You can see the family resemblance. I always liked Jean Chretien...I thought he was a plain speaking son of a gun. I was horrified when weecowboy did not make the traditional "first call" to our neighbors to the north after he stole the pResidency.

And doesn't Howard, as always, look well.

Appropriately disrespectful to a guy who deserves no respect. I like that.
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My Irish great grandmother used the wee word all the time--she knew how to keep unimportant things in proportion.

weecowboy (note how I will not ever give him a W--he only rates a w) is dangerous, but no matter how hard he struts and tries, he will never be IMPORTANT. And the transmitter-wearing, smirky, stumblebum, pretzel choking, Jim Beam guzzling, cokehead knows it!

Good statement. How true.

Pic courtesy of Bartcop.

U.S. lost moral leadership under Bush, says Dean


"We owe Canadians much better than we have given them for the past four years under this president," Dean told a conference analysing U.S. election issues.

"You will have a great deal of goodwill coming towards Canada from the American capital under a President Kerry.''

Dean accused Bush of giving the cold shoulder to traditional allies, such as Canada and Mexico, that didn't support the U.S.-led war on Iraq.

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Political scientist Pierre Martin, also at the speech, said the Democrats may have made a strategic error in keeping their outspoken colleague on the sidelines during most of Kerry's campaign.

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/mini/CTVNews/1098830758067_94239958?s_name=usElection2004&no_ads=

It has been a sad 4 years. :(

I never did like how the US President assumed the mantle of "leader of the free world." (I mean, I feel pretty free, but I don't get a vote!) Still, until Bush, a case could have been made that it was the de facto truth. Not anymore. And much will need to be reversed before that claim is greeted with anything but hoots of derision.

I think this may explain the article's slant:

"Canada Free Press founding editor Judi McLeod is an award-winning journalist with 30 years experience in the media. A former Toronto Sun and Kingston Whig Standard columnist, she has also appeared on Newsmax.com, the Drudge Report, Foxnews.com, and World Net Daily."

I think this paper is garbage.

I noticed the word "pandered" but the write-up was still pretty good. I guess Dean has had a whole lot worse said about him in his own country, really, so that seems mild in comparison.

I guess it is really something that I don't even notice. Strange when things like that go over my head...but he has been called that in the US so much.

Like he said, you have to be careful not to tell the truth too much. Paraphrased.

Canada!

Some of us were wanting Kerry's first call to a foreign Country when he gets into the White House to be Canada!

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