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Originally Posted by OldDutch
I hate Trump and Kenney and anything they do is stoopid.
This is thought pattern of the group that bought tickets to see Obama speak in Calgary. Just to hear someone validate them with a pat on the head and “thats a good boy” speech. All the while being the same man hard screwing the very country, province and city they are sitting in.
Classic Canadian culture. So insecure and obsessed with what others think we will gladly cut off any body part to get a wink and nod from anyone.
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I "liked" Obama when he was elected in the sense that I was 17 and thought he was cool and a breath of fresh air. The guy did March Madness brackets and had a basketball hoop installed in the White House. That was more or less why I liked him, I'm not a citizen of the US and don't care about their politics so it was nothing policy wise for or against him in my opinion. When he was re-elected in 2012 I was in Vegas for an Oil and Gas related conference through the U of C and was pretty pumped, me and couple buddies crashed the Nevada Democrats election party at the Mandalay Bay and celebrated hard. There were a bunch of Texas oil guys at this conference and when we talked about celebrating the previous night they told us that if we cared about oil and gas in Canada then we should've been mourning and not celebrating. Turns out they were right, if Obama hadn't capped us for naked pandering reasons Keystone would be in the ground right now flowing 800k bbl/d to tidewater and everyone in Alberta from oil and gas workers to public sector unions would be much much better off than we are right now.
Obviously I'm biased but I think that through approving Keystone and pushing it forward Trump did more for Canada than Obama did his whole presidency. If someone could articulate how that's not the case I'd be glad to listen. Sure Obama and Trudeau had a bro-mance but that's just all talk and photo ops, when it comes down to hard economics and actions Trump came through for us and Obama kicked us in the nuts. Sounds like his right hand man is getting set to do the same. Trump is crass, unhinged, and deeply unpopular with Canadians for understandable reasons. It doesn't change the fact that he's helping us.