Tomorrow my friends north of the border--in Canada--elect their new Parliament and may put a new prime minister in office. I'm interested in this--this is one American who follows Canadian affairs pretty closely.
To them, I humbly suggest: Vote for whomever you like most. Vote smart. Don't vote just to protest or "make a point."
That's what happened in my country in 2000. Remember Ralph Nader? He's directly responsible--though he heartily protests that--for putting President Shrub in office by draining enough votes away from Gore to decide a few key states in an extremely close election.
That was an entirely different time. Remember 2000? America had a booming economy. A big budget surplus. No major foreign entanglements, outside of peacekeeping in the Balkans. People were talking about paying down the national debt or else finally fixing Medicare with the surplus. The U.S. dollar was very strong.
A lot has happened in the last five years, hasn't it?
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