americanson said:
Come on now. That may be a fairly common mistake... mistaking Africa the continent for South Africa the country. Besides the election is over lay off Palin lefties your guy won. As I recall President Obama also said the president of Canada. He visted 57 states with 3 more to go. He was unaware of all of Nafta. (Not ignorant just unaware of it's overall importance) even going so far as to say he would tear it up. That changed about 3 days later when one of his advisors must've sat him down and expalined it's importance.
Is any of this relevant? No. They are honest mistakes by an otherwise very intelligent man. Just shows tho the double-standards in the media's lack of ridicule.
1. Dude, fix your public schools if that's a common mistake. If anything South Africa should be to Africa what the United States of Amnesia, er, America is to America.
2. Obama wasn't unaware of NAFTA, he wanted to renegotiate it. Trust me, there are plenty of people here that would like to do the same. He caved on that one. Moved to the centre-- Ohh, you'll see more of that.
3. President of Canada may or may not have been a fatigue mistake, and 57 states certainly was, but Palin's problems wasn't fatigue mistakes-- It was that she didn't know, didn't know what she didn't know, and by all accounts would have a hard time learning it. (
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/04/palin-attended-5-colleges_n_124036.html ) Oh, plus fatigue mistakes.
The person that described Palin's problems the best was Fareed Zakaria: "http://www.newsweek.com/id/161204"
4. Frankly, I'm a fair bit further left than Obama-- My inner man child, and the part of me that's a 'decent human being' was happy he won. On the other hand, American domestic policy doesn't mean as much to me as American foreign policy, and McSame would have cemented the decline of 'America the Empire'. The cynical part of me wanted to cheer for him for that reason, but I was afraid of the off chance he'd end human life on Earth (or start WWIII).
The pessimist in me fears that Obama will restore the velvet jackboot of Empire (if he isn't otherwise too distracted with that mountain of domestic issues.). Canada will prosper more in a truly multi-polar world-- while remaining a good friend of the USA. I'm not sitting here chanting "death to America", but the Monroe Doctrine has to go, and Europe has to emerge as it's own pole. Quite simply, Canada does better as a middle power if there is more than one large power to play with, and we spent the first half of our history as a toady to a declining Empire and I'm afraid of us doing the same again.
5. The Librul Media in the States is a joke. It is narrow, neo-liberal (not liberal), and corporatist. A creature in it's own bubble helping Americans' live in their bubbles. On all economic issues it is centre right to far right, on religious issues it is centre to far right, on social issues it is centre left to far right. Fair and balanced being the least fair and balanced of all.
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