{"id":194603,"date":"2008-09-08T17:51:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-08T22:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/09\/08\/canada-calls-snap-elections\/"},"modified":"2008-09-08T17:51:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-08T22:51:00","slug":"canada-calls-snap-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/09\/08\/canada-calls-snap-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada Calls Snap Elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/09\/08\/world\/americas\/08canada.html?ref=americas\">Here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2689817\/Canadas-PM-calls-snap-election.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here is his political calculus in calling snap elections:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>If Obama wins, Canadians will favor someone who is closer ideologically to the new president.<\/li>\n<li>If the sick old man wins, then Canadians will want someone who will do their best to oppose 4 more years of Bush and His Evil Minions<sup>\u2122<\/sup> without the military restraint.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Thus holding Canadian elections after the US election is simply a losing proposition.<\/p>\n<p>I hope that this doesn&#8217;t work for Harper, because he really wants go with Bushonomics, and we can say &#8220;buh-bye&#8221; to the best health care system in North America if he wins another term.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here and here. Here is his political calculus in calling snap elections: If Obama wins, Canadians will favor someone who is closer ideologically to the new president. If the sick old man wins, then Canadians will want someone who will do their best to oppose 4 more years of Bush and His Evil Minions\u2122 without &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1113,1000,978],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canada","category-elections","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194603"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194603\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}