Oh, piffle. I know how Americans fixate on their presidents. It's bizarre. The president is considered like he was some kind of surrogate father figure for the whole nation...the commander-in-chief...and also the most important man in the entire world. Canadians don't take their prime minister nearly so seriously, because they know he's just some other guy in a business suit. ;-) You'd have to grow up here to know what I mean about that...or at least live here for a few years.