I prefer a swing to the left down there then for them to stay as they've been.

Vote Conservative up here vote Obama down there. simple as pie.

Harper and Obama are both becoming sophisticated enough to realize the raw ideas that the internet has been able to generate to deal with the worlds problems. They are the best suited candidates to refine such ideas and put them to use especially given the other options which are steeped in Leftwing/Rightwing rhetoric and thinking.

Extreme is Dion and 4 years of Palin.
The moderates are Harper and Obama and I can say such things with the utmost certainty.

Anyone who still feels McCain is right for the job should take a look at this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEtZlR3zp4c

If you still support him than you can't be help. You don't have to vote obama but you shouldn't vote McCain.

Not all republicans are bad but they should consider distancing themselves away from both their candidate and their party and perhaps go independent. future campaign financing be damned! If they're are really fit for office they'd be able to manage on their own fine enough through good fiscal policies and common sense.

PS to all those hardcore “Liberal” canadians reading this, you should realize that there are Conservatives in the democratic party too. Just as their are NDP like folk and radicals but they don't decide the final policy breakdown since it is a Big Tent party and a moderate consensus has to be reached first. Works the same for the Conservatives up here, only the Canadian conservatives do it better. And are a lot less dated.

It's because love of country ensures that you are concerned about others, not just yourself. If you love your country—which is more than just a chunk of geography—its history, its heritage, its hard-won battles, its democratic institutions, its forebears who sacrificed for future generations, you can't, by definition, be concerned for only yourself. You understand that, put in proper context, the individual is part of a much larger whole, is a citizen of a much larger community which precludes pure self-interest. Self-centredness doesn't work in this configuration.

The “me generation,” the perpetually entitled, self-referential cohort we now have entering the workforce and politics needs a wake-up call. They need to understand that all of the benefits they have, everything that has made their lives affluent and comfortable, has been bought at a price by the generations that came before them.

That's what patriotism is: an appreciation of the shoulders upon which the present generation is standing.

That's what I love about Americans and what I regret about being Canadian: Americans have a highly developed (some would say too highly developed!) sense of how fortunate they are to live in the U.S.A., while Canadians tend to denigrate and belittle the great benefits bestowed upon us by our forefathers and mothers and TAKE THEM FOR GRANTED.

Americans KNOW their history and celebrate it. Canadians are suffering from historical amnesia: We neither know our history nor celebrate it. We have rewritten it and live in a commensurate revisionist haze. That, sadly, is Pierre Elliott Trudeau and his party's legacy to Canada.

We need to stand up and fight to get our country back from the minimalist, monochrome revisionism we are suffering from now.

John McCain’s wife has held ownership interests in two Arizona medical buildings that rent space to companies involved in the destruction of human embryos found to have genetic defects — a practice some anti-abortion activists say amounts to the taking of human life.

McCain’s financial disclosure forms show that Cindy McCain has invested more than $65,000 in Estrella Medical Plaza I. Estrella rents space to Arizona Reproductive Medicine Specialists and Sonora Quest Laboratories. Dr. Kimball Pomeroy of ARMS said that if his firm discovers that an embryo was affected by a serious disease, “in most cases, it would be discarded.” A brochure for Sonora Quest says that “if a birth defect is found, your doctor or a genetic counselor will help you make decisions in the best interest of you, your family and your baby.”

McCain’s disclosure forms also show that, until recently, Cindy McCain had at least a $100,000 investment in Princess Medical Center, which rents to Arizona Associates for Reproductive Health. An AARH employee confirmed that the firm discards embryos if its clients ask it do so

……it doesn't take much to fool you folks does it. Now, Palin has consistently lied – and McCain is a scuzz.

Somethings amiss.

If Obama-Biden get elected to the White House, you can bet their protectionism will destroy the Canadian economy, particularly in Ontario … and yet Liberals in Canada are supporters of Obama. Talk about stupidity …!!!

Boy, those are rallying cries Canadians could /should take up here in the True North, Strong and Free.

When you compare and contrast the two campaigns, McCain's and Obama's, one has been coming across as over-the-top, extravagant, hanging on cliches and a messianic here-I-come-to-save-the-day rhetoric while the other has been much less extravagant, down-to-earth, gracious, humble, and I'll-do-what-I-can-to-serve-my-country-not-my-party-or-myself .

Senator John S. McCain is going to let the extravagance of the Democratic campaign (what I call Obama Bling) speak for itself–and maybe run itself out. I loved the fireworks at the RNC: a light show played on the screen, not actual fireworks!

Funny, I didn't see Cindy McCain's speech, though a little long, as you did. I'm a wife. I'm a mom. I'm concerned about motherless children living in poverty and I was quite impressed with her obvious love for her husband, her kids, and her genuine concern for the downtrodden. (I know, I know, she's an heiress. But she could be living a life of pure luxury rather than going into war- and poverty-torn countries to help where she can. Bringing an Indian baby home and adopting her into her family isn't just window dressing.) I was actually surprised that she was more than a pretty face!

I loved John McCain's unabashed patriotism. We need more love of country north of the 49th parallel. I hope the Republicans are re-elected. McCain and Palin are a great team, and it won't be business as usual if the two of them are Presidenta and Vice President. I want McCain with all of his experience, especially his military experience, at the helm of the most powerful country in the world given the volatility of our position here in the West vis a vis the terrorist threat, which is very real.

I was heartened to hear a pundit on WNED last night say that Barack Obama has the fight of his life ahead of him.