Last night, I couldn’t help missing all of the swipes that the Republican’s took at Canada’s Health Care system during their televised debate. I remember either John McCain or Rudolph Giuliani making a stupid joke that if the US decided to adopt Socialized Medicine, Canadians wouldn’t have anywhere to go for health care. Yeah, right; Believe what you want to believe, Mr. McCain and Giuliani. It was amazing how many times that all of the Republican candidates all repeated the phrase: ‘The US Health Care System is the best in the world.”, as if saying so would make it true.
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When I mentioned to my parents, back in Baltimore, the distinct possibility of a President Huckabee, my mother said “If that happens, then we’ll be joining you.” Really? If I were them, I’d be more serious about that, considering this classic clip from the CBC’s This Hour has 22 Minutes in 2001, where Rick Mercer shows just how gullible they (including Governor Huckabee) can be in Arkansas:
I’ve written before about the staggering lack of knowledge about the rest of the world on the part of Americans, but I would hope that any potential future President would know more about Canada than this. Perhaps I should be worried if there will there be enough room for the Americans fleeing north to join us if Mike Huckabee, a man who might be just as uninformed as George W. WPIUSH, becomes President.
A follow-up on this, thanks to West End Bound: An Article in today’s Vancouver Sun:
Canadian health care better and cheaper than U.S., says research If you think that this source might be not entirely neutral, bear in mind that they are reporting on a British study, not a Canadian one.
Yes, when I heard Giuliani say that it made me cringe. The sad part is most US citizens will probably believe him .…
No way! I remember this episode but my jaw is on the floor now that I realize he’s actually a contender for the US Presidency. God help us all!
I always figured these clips of Mercer’s, hilarious though they are, segmented out the worst of the offenders, whereas the vast majority of people in the states know damn well our parliament is not an igloo! Do you think I’m overly optimistic?
And, I just saw “sicko” last week. Any idea how many people in the States saw it?
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I get more and more upset over how little most Americans know about so many subjects. A recent clip from ‘Are you Smarter Than a Fifth Grader’ was also on YouTube, and the contestant, a woman from the Deep South by the sound of her accent, didn’t know that:
Was this woman the worst of the lot, or is she typical? Based on more and more of what I see and hear, the film ‘Idiocracy’ comes to mind (a future dreamed up by Mike Judge, of Beavis and Butthead fame, where ‘natural selection’ has resulted in steadily dropping intelligence over time, leading to a country entirely populated by slack-jawed imbeciles).
Scary video with Governor Huckabee…
Is it possible to elect a worse president than George W Bush? Oh yes. You could put a creationist in the White House!
G’day, Mike! Long time, no see.
I suspect that we already have a creationist in the White House.
As for Mr. Huckabee, all I can imagine is that if he did actually make it into the Oval Office, it would signal (to me, at least) that the US is now beyond hope, and will continue its decline into a Theocracy. Then again, decline is my term. For some, I guess they would call it an ascent.