Canadians? Is this what you are proud of?

[Buddy]

Heather Mallick of the CBC say:
"I assume John McCain chose Sarah Palin as his vice-presidential partner in a fit of pique because the Republican money men refused to let him have the stuffed male shirt he really wanted. She added nothing to the ticket that the Republicans didn’t already have sewn up, the white trash vote, the demographic that sullies America’s name inside and outside its borders yet has such a curious appeal for the right.
So why do it?
It’s possible that Republican men, sexual inadequates that they are, really believe that women will vote for a woman just because she’s a woman. They’re unfamiliar with our true natures. Do they think vaginas call out to each other in the jungle night? I mean, I know men have their secret meetings at which they pledge to do manly things, like being irresponsible with their semen and postponing household repairs with glue and used matches. Guys will be guys, obviously.
But do they not know that women have been trained to resent other women and that they only learn to suppress this by constantly berating themselves and reading columns like this one? I’m a feminist who understands that women can nurse terrible and delicate woman hatred.
Palin was not a sure choice, not even for the stolidly Republican ladies branch of Citizens for a Tackier America. No, she isn’t even female really. She’s a type, and she comes in male form too.
John Doyle, the cleverest critic in Canada, comes right out and calls Palin an Alaska hillbilly. Damn his eyes, I wish I’d had the wit to come up with it first. It’s safer than “white trash” but I’ll pluck safety out of the nettle danger. Or something.
Doyle’s job includes watching a lot of reality television and he’s well-versed in the backstory. White trash — not trailer trash, that’s something different — is rural, loud, proudly unlettered (like Bush himself), suspicious of the urban, frankly disbelieving of the foreign, and a fan of the American cliché of authenticity. The semiotics are pure Palin: a sturdy body, clothes that are clinging yet boxy and a voice that could peel the plastic seal off your new microwave.
‘Turn your guns on Levi, ma’am’
Palin has a toned-down version of the porn actress look favoured by this decade’s woman, the overtreated hair, puffy lips and permanently alarmed expression. Bristol has what is known in Britain as the look of the teen mum, the “pramface.” Husband Todd looks like a roughneck; Track, heading off to Iraq, appears terrified. They claim to be family obsessed while being studiously terrible at parenting. What normal father would want Levi “I’m a fuckin’ redneck” Johnson prodding his daughter?
I know that I have an attachment to children that verges on the irrational, but why don’t the Palins? I’m not the one preaching homespun values but I’d destroy that ratboy before I’d let him get within scenting range of my daughter again, and so would you. Palin’s e-mails about the brother-in-law she tried to get fired as a state trooper are fizzing with rage and revenge. Turn your guns on Levi, ma’am.

Palin has it all, along with being vicious and profoundly dishonest. Just hours after her first convention speech, the Associated Press did a good fast listing of her untruths and I won’t dwell on them.

I did promise to watch the entire convention so you wouldn’t have to, but I discovered a neat trick. I switched between the convention and the 2003 folk music mockumentary A Mighty Wind on Bravo.

They were indistinguishable. Click on a nervous wreck with deeply strange hair doing a monologue on society today and where it all went wrong. Are you watching Christian belter Aaron Tippin singing Where the Stars and Stripes and Eagle Fly in the Xcel Centre in St. Paul or the actors from Spinal Tap remixing the 1966 version of Potato’s in the Paddy Wagon?

Who delivered this line: “To do then now would be retro. To do then then was very now-tro, if you will.” Was it Rev. James Dobson of Focus on the Family talking about Bristol Palin’s shotgun wedding or was it a flashback to the Kingston Trio?

The conventioneers are nothing like the rich men who run the party, and that’s the mystery of the hick vote. They’d be much better served by the Democrats. I know Thomas Frank answered this in What’s the Matter with Kansas?; I know that red states vote Republican on social issues to give themselves the only self-esteem available to their broken, economically abused existence.
Lie works for Palin

But surely they know Barack Obama is not planning to finish off the ordinary hillbilly when he adjusts tax rates. He’s going to raise taxes on the top 2% of Americans and that doesn’t include anyone at the convention beyond the Bushes and McCains and random party management. So why cheer Palin when she claims otherwise?

Is it racism? I’m told that it is, although I find racism so appalling that I have difficulty identifying it. It is more likely the dearly held Republican notion that any American can become violently rich, as rich as those hedge funders in Greenwich, Conn., who buy $40-million mansions unseen and have their topiary shaped in the form of musical notes.

When Palin and Rudy Giuliani sneered at Obama’s years of “community organizing” — they said it like “rectal fissure” — the audience ewww-ed with them. Republicans dream of a personal future that involves only household staff, not equals who need to be persuaded to vote.

So I’m trying to imagine the pain of realizing, as they all must at some point, that it is not going to happen for them. It’s the green light at the end of the dock. It’s the ship that never comes in, gals, as Palin would put it. But she won’t because the lie works for her. It helps her scramble, without compassion, above all those other tense no-hoper ladies in the audience.

American politics isn’t short of smart women. Susan Eisenhower, Ike’s granddaughter, who just endorsed Obama, made an extraordinary speech at the Democratic convention (and a terrific casual appearance on The Colbert Report as Palin was speaking). The Republican party has already consumed nearly all of its moderate “seed corn,” she said aptly. Time to start again.

Eisenhower, a scholar and journalist, has a point. Or am I only saying that because she’s part of the thoughtful demographic that I’m trying to reach here? Think, Heather, think like a Republican! The Skeptics, shall I call them, are my base, and I’ll pander to them as ardently as the Republican patriarchs tease their white female marginals."

Fuck off. Heather. Stupid bunt.

[Mike Strong]

Almost all the Canadians I come across have this same, - attention needy/ insecure/low self-esteem/passive-aggresive/thing ...

... that they try to pass off as humor.

It's really kind of sad.

[jwalker]

You two together are making this a fucking gay ass forum to hang out on.

Mods WTF is going on? I don't care that these two have been around for a long time, this is blatant trolling.

Boys please take your shit somewhere else, I like EF OTT because it's usually funny. You are not.

[Darth Rock&Roll]

lol. It's funny to watch the intellectually challenged stumble about with their world views. Even more fun when they bleet and foot stamp in writing.
There is value in having your own special people. Often they are living confirmation of the folly of men. We should thank them for being only what they can be and are.

[Walter Joyce]

lol. It's funny to watch the intellectually challenged stumble about with their world views. Even more fun when they bleet and foot stamp in writing.
There is value in having your own special people. Often they are living confirmation of the folly of men. We should thank them for being only what they can be and are.

QFT

[mixjourneyman]

rofl!

The funny part about that article is that its true.

Mix- passive aggressive Canadian that tries to pass these terrible qualities off as humor.

Now lets have some fucking cake already!

[edededed]

What is it with people against Canadians? I don't even know how Canadians are supposed to be different from Americans...

[mixjourneyman]

What is it with people against Canadians? I don't even know how Canadians are supposed to be different from Americans...

We say eh a lot more and our parliament is held in the national igloo.

[edededed]

What kind of food do you have, eh?

[Darth Rock&Roll]

don't forget president poutine and our internationally recognized army of one!

seriously, saying canadians are like americans is like saying the french are like italians or the british are like the spanish.

we share as much in our society as all modern societies do and the things that make us same are not those same things that bind us as nations.

we are actually very different. come visit and see. in fact, even internally, canadians differ from province to province in overall world views, perceived issues of importance and even colloquialisms from province to province.

worth a consider, for some perspective, is a urban new yorker the same as a rural kentuckian?

except for the fact they live in the same nation, I would say there is a broad difference in world views, lifestyles, even dialectic differences. They are bound together through rule of law of the nation, and a lot of the rest is quite different.

sweeping strokes cannot be used to paint a nation and no two are alike.

[Ian]

[Darthwing Teorist]

Almost all the Candians I come across have this same, - attention needy/ insecure/low self-esteem/passive-aggresive/thing ...

... that they try to pass off as humor.

It's really kind of sad.

That sounds exactly like the description of a certain dude from Las Vegas. Are you Canadian, Mike?

[Darthwing Teorist]

What is this finger-licking yumminess?

[Mike Strong]

AND they are lousy tippers, - complete stiffs. They pretend they don't know they are supposed to tip, but they know, THEY KNOW!

Newfoundlanders are okay though, - the salt of the earth really. Ironicly, the Newfoundlanders are the butt of a lot of really lame "Newfie" jokes told by the rest of the country.

I give everyone a chance, and take everyone I meet as an individual, but I am constantly dissapointed by Canadians and their obnoxious, drunken, passive-aggresive, "smile as they stick the knife in" behavior ...

... they "talk shit" in person, the way civilized people only "talk" on the internet.

The Heather Malllick rant ?

Fine for the internet, but that is kind of "shit talk" I hear from Canadians in person, on a regular basis. I would never go to a foriegn country, and spout off sanctimoniously about my hosts society the way the average Canadian does.

I'm sorry, but you Canadians are just plain rude.

Apologize for, (and agree with) Heather Malick and her ilk all you want when you are in The Great White North.

Do it on the internet, - and you'll get a taste of your own medicine.

Do it in person, and ... ?

[mixjourneyman]

Wow, let it all out Mike. You are obviously right.
No one in the world has a right to be dissatisfied with the state of affairs when concerning American public office (who have a much larger place of prominence in deciding world politics than Canada ever will).