The reason, by the way, that we Canadians worry so much and talk so much about the American political system is simple...

It's about 150 times more powerful than ours is, and it directly affects the entire world.

That's why we worry about your elections. You'll very seldom find an American who worries about any Canadian election... ;-)

You must expect, when your country is the equivalent of Imperial Rome on the modern stage, to have it critized and analyzed by people in other parts of the world, specially people who live right next door to it.