How cute.
Nevermind the fact that it will take all of 6 weeks to complete, a mere couple of hours to count the ballots and disclose the results.
What, this piddly little so-called "nation" to the north of the big bad Eagle thinks they are showing anyone up? Yeah, so what if in the USA it takes them a full year (or is it two?) to decide who's even running for president and then another three months to "campaign" (as in dig up dirt and sling a nice even mix of mud and poo at the other side) before it's time to actually go to the polls. Then finally it's election time, at which point the votes will be counted and the winner declared based on...wait, NOT the popular vote but via the indirect method of voting called the electoral college. Rather than directly voting for the President and Vice President, U.S. citizens cast votes for electors. Electors are technically free to vote for anyone eligible to be President, but in practice pledge to vote for specific candidates.
Much superior way of electing one's leaders than this silly Canadian "six week campaign plus the 1-2 hour bush league way of tallying to figure out who has the most votes" thing. PFFT! Probably only costs 1/1000th of what a typical US election costs. Canadians, I tell you. :D
Anyway it seems there's a [tee hee] little story in this election in Canada. Apparently their version of the Conservative party won a minority government last time, and has called this election in order to try and win a majority. The Libs have a new front man, some guy named Stephane Dion that nobody likes, and there's another party called the "New Democrats" (who never win) led by Jack Layton. Um...what did they do to the
old democrats? Nevermind, you don't want to know. What's important, in a small mickey mouse kind of way, is that these three are about to square off along with a handful of also-ran parties like the "Green" party (lol) and a few others no one can remember until they see them on the ballot. Why would any country need more than two parties? Silly silly Canadians.
Will it be that this Steven Harper guy (the current Prime Minister) gets his majority, or is he dreaming and just wasting taxpayer's money only to get the same minority handed back to him? (effectively telling him that Canada has SOME confidence in him, but not THAT much) Time will tell.
Anyway, while those crazy canucks sit up in their igloos and laugh at the convoluted long-winded pompous way the US drags out their year of endless campaigning, conventioning, media-circusing etc, those in the US (the ones who realize Canada even has elections) are having a good chuckle at the cute Canadians who are again doing the monkey see - monkey do thing that they always do. "We have an election, they have to have an election"... lol.
Watch, pretty soon now they'll even be having their Thanksgiving, a month before the US does, and even THAT they copied.
Bastards!
If they didn't squawk about it on message boards no one would even know they were even having an election up there. Isn't the tundra too frozen, how do they put up yard signs?
God bless Americah, 'n Canada too.
