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Wednesday November 05, 2008 · 8:26 AM PST

2008/11/05 · 08:26

President Bush congratulated President-elect Barack Obama on his victory in a manner typical of his lost presidency.

"You are about to go on one of the great journeys of life," Bush told Obama. "Congratulations and go enjoy yourself."

As if Obama was about to go on an all-expenses-paid eight-year vacation. That's the way 43 approached his occupancy of the White House. But there's real work to be done now.

After collapse, voting McCain would be "perverse"

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Wednesday September 24, 2008 · 8:23 AM PDT

2008/09/24 · 08:23

John Ibbitson is a columnist for the Globe and Mail, Canada's "national newspaper." He's as right-wing as they come, and, early in the campaign, looked for any reason he could to slam Obama and pump up McCain.

But he can't take it any longer. In a column today, "McCain helped create this deregulated mess," Ibbitson asks the question, "How is it now possible for a reasonable voter to cast a ballot for John McCain?"

There's really no alternative now, he observes. John McCain helped create this economic emergency. "Under the circumstances, rewarding him by voting for him would be perverse."

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Thursday June 19, 2008 · 10:44 PM PDT

2008/06/19 · 22:44

On the eve of his visit to Canada, Canadian polling firm Ipsos has bad news for John McCain. Barack Obama leads the race for president by seven points nationally, 50-43. The poll also found 73 per cent of our neighbours (Canuck speller, here!) think their country is on the wrong track.

Ipsos, a respected mainstream survey firm in Canada, conducted their poll among 1,000 American voters June 5-11 for the Canwest newspaper chain and the Global Television Network, both owned by the arch-conservative Asper family of Winnipeg. The results were likely held for the moment of maximum interest triggered by McCain's visit to Ottawa today.

Among all voters, both likely and unlikely, Obama led by 10 points, 49-39, which shows that GOTV efforts in November could be crucial.

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Thursday June 19, 2008 · 4:46 AM PDT

2008/06/19 · 04:46

John McCain is visiting the scene of the crime tomorrow, coming north to Canada to vaunt our free trade relationship with the United States, and maybe, just maybe, remind journalists about the manufactured controversy over Barack Obama's stance on the North American Free Trade Agreement.

Mr. McCain picked Ottawa and the Economic Club of Canada to deliver his speech. Tables, costing between $2,000 and $5,000, sold out in less than an hour when it was announced that he was on his way.

For Canada's governing Conservative Party, holding power with a slim minority in Parliament and steadily losing steam in recent polling, McCain's visit comes at a ticklish moment. It highlights this rookie government's unprecedented interference in the American electoral process and its unseemly alliance with the Republican Party of George W. Bush.

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