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Originally Posted by Byrns
So you're OK with an American citizen being the PM of Canada? I couldn't care less where someone is born, but to be PM of Canada while a card carrying citizen of another country is absurd.
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Can I assume that in actuality you find this sort of nativist nonsense despicable and you just forgot the green text?
You'd better hope Harper has got better weapons than that in his arsenal. That pretty much defines "weak."
I'll add this: Harper's panicked ad campaign accused Ignatieff of being "American." But it's Harper who is injecting the American rhetorical style into our politics--attack ads that are devoid of content, making nakedly jingoistic emotional appeals in an attempt to grab the moral low ground before anyone else can get there. That
defines everything that is wrong with American political culture.
Let's remember that we're better than that.