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McCain loves Freedom. Obama Loves Equality

I wander. Boy do I wander on the internet. Amidst my wandering I tend to stumble on some useful, and not so useful stuff. I'm not sure where many of our readers will place this tool, so I'll just leave it up to you guys. I came across this page called SpeechWars. What they do is they take ...

Black Monday, McCain and Obama Ads

Overview of the past few days Well, the campaigns are well under way and it's starting to get ugly. John McCain got grilled on the View and Barack Obama keeps taking punches from the McCain camp. As more time passed the punches eventually hit below the waist. Enough that Karl Rove of all peo...

McCain an Agent of Change?

After a rather successful couple of days at the Republican convention tonight, John McCain gave his acceptance speech. It was a lackluster speech to say the least. When you compare it to such speeches as Sarah Palin and Barack Obama, it makes you wonder what John McCain was thinking with this spe...

Democrat Success & Republican Shocker

As I sat and watched Barack Obama, Joe Biden and their wives walk to the centre of the stage during the closing moments of the democratic convention I remember thinking to myself – “How could the republicans possibly steal the spotlight after this?”

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2008 Olympics & Soft Power

The Olympics that have now come to pass mark the first time that China finished with more medals than the United States. Several years ago we were introduced to the term soft power by political scientist Joseph Nye.Read More

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2008 U.S. Election

There are a few things that I really needed to vent about today...Read More

Canadian Election Blog Post

Apology in Blog Form

A few people have asked why I haven't been posting. The simple answer is that the race in Ottawa-Centre - the original purpose of this blog - is a tremendously boring race.

And in other news

Did you know: If McCain is elected he will be the oldest person to be elected President of the U.S. at 72. If elected Barack Obama would 5th youngest person to be elected President of the United States at 47 years old (Bill Clinton was 46).

Did you know: John McCain has seven children: Douglas (b. 1959), Andrew (b. 1962), Sidney (b. 1966), Meghan (b. 1984), John Sidney IV "Jack" (b. 1986), James (b. 1988), Bridget (b. 1991)