I used to live in the USA. I signed up to Kos when it was on Blogspot. I'd kinda like to know what my "number" is, I never did figure out how to look it up. I'm guessing I'm in the top 200, only a guess. I'm amazed I could sign on tonight. I found this blog after the California Teachers' speech, I loved Howard Dean then, and I haven't changed my mind since. I hated the run up to Iraq. Even here I caught flack about how I figured it would all go sideways, the US army would lose control.
I remember when Ezra Klein had a kiddie blog as a college student. He was a moron about health care and the war back then, as he is still. How that jerk got a rep as a left of centre advocate is still beyond me. Yesterday I read him for the first time in years. He's still speaking out of both sides of his mouth.
I moved back home to Ontario, 2004. Canadians are like homing pigeons, take us anywhere, sooner or later we will work our way back.
I believed in Obama, and still do. I'm hoping he doesn't get shot. I think he is America's best chance to engage with the world, instead of dominating it for cynical national gain. I'm still waiting for America to prove itself as a beacon of democracy. Obama has been courageous about this. I'm hoping America, the heartland, follows his lead. I don't feel good about the chances of that happening.
I still admire Americans a lot. I always will. I loved living among them. The government, that would be Bush when I was there, not so much. He was the primary reason I left.
I'm still hoping that my American cousins get mad enough to take back their democracy, and regain world respect, something they used to have.
Maybe I'll drop back in in a couple of years...TC and God bless...Pete