Bottle of Blog: Total Hosers

Yesterday in a speech to the Canadian Club in Ottawa, US Ambassador David Wilkins warned Canadians to tone down their criticism of the United States in their current national political campaigns. Canadian elections are scheduled for January 23rd…

It was hardly the most caustic speech you've ever heard. But it's the essence of diplomatic etiquette that foreign ambassadors simply don't poke their noses into their host country's election campaigns, especially not to tell them not to criticize his country, except in cases where the host country amounts to a dependency or de facto protectorate.

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How on earth do 35% of Americans delude themselves into thinking these totally incompetent Bush clowns are going to help bring about an American friendly democracy in the Mid-East when they can't even bring about an American friendly democracy in fucking Canada???