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To watch U.S. President Barack Obama go onto unfriendly turf and go a long way to disarming his opponents was almost magical.
I have just returned from a brief holiday in the United States and, when time passed slowly, I watched television. To do so is to conclude that many of our American neighbours are on the verge of national insanity. Reality shows follow reality shows, each more unreal than the last, while commercials pile upon commercials without end. And then there is Fox News, as "fair and balanced" as ever. To see the globe and the U.S. through Glenn Beck's and Bill O'Reilly's eyes is to live in a parallel world that seems almost as surreal as the most asinine of reality shows. There President Obama is almost always presented as a raving socialist ideologue, and his attempts to improve medical care for his people are only an effort to establish cost-controlling death panels to purge the elderly, much like in Britain. Or so a 93-year-old former Surgeon-General appeared to say in a paid advertisement that was almost omnipresent.
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Emulating Obama? Should the Prime Minister visit the Liberal caucus?
To watch U.S. President Barack Obama go onto unfriendly turf and go a long way to disarming his opponents was almost magical.
I have just returned from a brief holiday in the United States and, when time passed slowly, I watched television. To do so is to conclude that many of our American neighbours are on the verge of national insanity. Reality shows follow reality shows, each more unreal than the last, while commercials pile upon commercials without end. And then there is Fox News, as "fair and balanced" as ever. To see the globe and the U.S. through Glenn Beck's and Bill O'Reilly's eyes is to live in a parallel world that seems almost as surreal as the most asinine of reality shows. There President Obama is almost always presented as a raving socialist ideologue, and his attempts to improve medical care for his people are only an effort to establish cost-controlling death panels to purge the elderly, much like in Britain. Or so a 93-year-old former Surgeon-General appeared to say in a paid advertisement that was almost omnipresent.
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