Golf clap, if you please

Andrew Coyne was not impressed with the Obama fan(atic)s who stood out in the cold to yell encouraging words to a passing SUV.

I don’t think this is a uniquely Canadian deficiency – remember Berlin? – so there’s no need to be concerned. Our national neuroses (of the beer commercial variety) played no part in this.

No, the reason I bring this to your attention is because Coyne makes reference to the Jonas Brothers, and that struck me as inordinately humourous. Read the post. It’s fun.

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We’ll follow this adorable story throughout the day

CNN is treating Obama’s visit like a water-skiing squirrel.

“Flaherty’s budget is a limp noodle”

John Ibbitson is absolutely right that we are missing a tremendous opportunity being so out of synch, politically, with the Americans.

If politics is a car, Stephen Harper knows the Canadian public will not put up with any backwards motion, but by God, he’s got his hands on the emergency brake and he’s not letting up.

Obama or no Obama, there will be very little in the way of progressive politics for Canada until we get a new PM – maybe even a new government.

First-world ignorance

Here is something loosely related to the historic election of Obama to the US Presidency.

Did you know Peru has a Japanese-Peruvian president for most of the 1990s? He is currently serving a six-year jail sentence for abuse of power.

This seems like the sort of thing I should have heard about before.