Must go breathe into a paper bag now.

I think that is what scares most conservatives in the US. The idea that current bad spending will continue forever and that new spending, which may be a thousand times more noble will be added to it. I mean, that’s what’s scary about regular democrats. The idea that our money is theirs for the taxing.

I watched the Obama infomercial. What shocks me is the almost total lack of safety net that Americans have. How close they always live to disaster, particularly health care wise, and somehow trumpet this as a triumph of individualism. Yeahhhh ….

Last night on the daily show, Jon Stewart asked Obama if he was a socialist and Obama said, Well, I think I may have shared my toys in kindergarden so yeah, I guess so.

I laughed so hard. Seriously, like our wealth isn’t redistributed already. The only difference between what Obama wants to do and what Bush is doing is that the money will go to the lower and middle class instead of Wal Mart and Haliburton. I’m cool with that.

Can we talk about circumcision now? PLEASE?

I’d have to comment anonymously to actually say why, but I think you might already know.

We study US politics in school, and this past election, you’d be hard pressed to find a Canadian who doesn’t know who Bush, McCain, Obama, and Palin are. None of them know anything about the Canadian election, mind you!

Oh and Bon and Niobe, the whole red/blue thing started on CNN a few years back. Originally in the US, red states were democratic and red was associated with lefty liberals.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_states_and_blue_states#Origins_of_current_color_scheme

And yes Bon, there will be some backlash on the green movement now, not so much because of the economy, but because of consumers who frankly are tired of the whole “green” movement which mostly seems cloaked in the marketing of guilt, and excess cost. Like those stupid Born Free baby bottles? Unfrigging believably expensive, yet you can buy BPA free bottles from Playtex, ultra cheap.
Most of the stuff the green movement has associated with, is all about spending and acquiring more stuff, the “right” stuff, the stuff that is PC enough and will not get you in trouble with the other moms on the playground. Meanwhile, real change never happened.
As long as consumers are obsessed with stupid shit, like plastic bags in grocery stores, industry will not change. Why should they? It’s shame, because it is worth it, but for the next five years, there won’t be much happening on that front….

It’s funny to read the comments. Because of my geography, I have no idea where these aggressive, ignorant conservatives are- at least not personally (I see them on TV). I live in a very, very liberal area so it is absolutely the democrats who speak in very entitled tones and as though everyone in the world who doesn’t agree with them is racist and greedy. Anyone who is remotely conservative in my neck of the woods keeps their head down, speaks in code, and offers a secret handshake before saying a political word to anyone lest they offend the majority.

Oh what I would give for a third party….

it’s funny…here in Canada, red is liberal and blue conservative, so the first online visual i ever saw of the American electorate with the red states and blue states (back in 2000) quite baffled me, too.

do you know whether red was associated with Republicans and conservatism in general back in the McCarthy era, with the “red” scare? cause that would’ve been confusing.