I see some sound reasoning and insight in all of your contributions. What I have offered you however, is a view from the outside. Regardless of how I feel about Americans personally, I have taken this opportunity to let you see what the rest of the world is thinking/saying.
Impolite of me? Probably but where has politeness got us so far?
None of my business? Not from where I stand and for two reasons....
1) You may not take Lou Dobbs seriously but many do and he has in the past, made some pretty inconsiderate remarks regarding what he thinks America should do to Canada. An American invasion/hostile take over is not inconceivable to most Canadians.
2) I am your friend and your neighbour. If your friends wont tell you, who will.
Preaching to the converted? Yes & no. Not just to the converted. Your country is split right down the middle. To say that only the Democrats are visiting this site is, for the want of a better word, naive. Believe me, there are plenty of Bush supporters here and given the fact that he was elected twice, the chances of any American visiting this site having voted for George Bush is actually greater than 50%.
The chances of any of them owning up to it however are much, much lower.
So Carol: Don't worry too much about my hurt feelings and having brought it on myself. I'm just fine and it would probably take any one of you about thirty seconds of meeting me in person to figure out that I have nothing to offer but friendship and most of you would probably accept it.
That "English" comment still stings a bit though.