After reading a headline about yet another Obama-rama whatever...I think the article was about how sad it was that the States has Obama and we have, well, we have Stephen Harper. My feeling is that this journalist, and a lot of other political journalists, seem to share this sentiment of wanna-an-Obama.
I kind of wanted to smack the journalist...uh yeah, the States have Obama, but they're also in the middle of basically exploding from the inside. Granted, good for the States they finally have a charismatic leader, and yeah, he's black, but for heaven's sake, somebody fire the journalist who complains that Canada does not equal the United States. Wasn't there enough States envy before Obama? And frankly, complaining that Stephen Harper is in power and that the whole Canadian political system is going down in flames is really just repeating the same piece of news in a different headline with the name 'Obama' and 'Why can't we?' attached to it. And article like this doesn't even require thinking to write, just editing of last week's article, and does nothing to stimulate Canadian conscience about anything. I was really annoyed with the article (and I am generally annoyed with most journalism, always), and I wish journalists would try and find something else to talk about, other than what they talked about last week, and the week before that, and the week before that, ad nauseum.
In other news, I'm worried that satirical comedians are going to ruin the slogan 'Yes we can!' for the rest of us? Thoughts on that?
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