Why Harper (Canada) is pinning his hopes on Clinton...

[rateyes]

It's proof of how screwy things are here that Stephen Harper's fortune is now hitched to Hillary Clinton. Canadian Conservatives can only hope she becomes the Democrat nominee for U.S. president and easiest pickings for Republican John McCain.

After this week's primaries, the other scenario, the one that puts Barack Obama in the White House, makes at least for sleepless nights and perhaps nightmares for this Prime Minister and, far more importantly, this country.

No matter who whispered what to whom, it's held as truth south of the border today that Harper's inner circle meddled in the bellwether Ohio race, wounding America's phenom and Boy Wonder. That assumption won't be reversed by the Prime Minister's hee-haw promise to find and plumb the leak and, sooner or later, a price will be paid in public or private.

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A triumphant Obama only makes all of that worse for Harper. A president from a different headspace is bad enough. One angry about being sandbagged by Canada's ersatz Republicans is dangerous enough to make Conservatives cheer for Clinton while praying for McCain.

Read the whole piece here:

http://www.thestar.com/comment/article/309752

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[leftofcool]

1. Harper wants Mccain

and why should be be surprised

[rateyes]

3. That's the gist of the article...

Harper wants McCain, and thus wants Clinton to be the Democratic nominee because:

1. His government (perhaps he) meddled in the Democratic primaries &

2. He knows that McCain can more easily defeat Clinton than Obama.

[TwilightGardener]

2. This whole thing is getting dirtier and dirtier. I want to know if the

Bush, McCain and Clinton camps have connections to the Canadian government's "leak".

[rateyes]

4. Good question. nt

[Iceburg]

6. Certainly Bush & McCain, definitely Not Clinton:Harper likes his women in the kitchen

[TwilightGardener]

7. Bill is "close" with a conservative member of Canada's parliament. A female. She

visited him in NY. This has the stink of the Clintons all over it--Hillary accusing Obama of something that SHE did, and then magically a "memo" is leaked for proof that turns out to be unrelated and debunked. LOL!

[Iceburg]

11. Actually she's a Liberal but she left politics a year ago due to breast cancer

[TwilightGardener]

12. I read that she "crossed the aisle"--Why is she meeting with him?

[Dogmudgeon]

5. The CanCons (Canadian Conservatives) want a divided Democratic party.

Look at the way they played us: first, trip up Obama, then hint that Hillary did the same thing.

Both sides of the pseudo-scandal played on the worst vices of each of our camps. The Hillary camp was desperately looking for something to break Obama's stride, and Team Obama has used the Tu Quoque technique ("Hillary did it, too!") quite heavily.

Quick, efficient, politically and emotionally satisfying, and it fit neatly into a 3-day news cycle right before the primary.

Just how stupid ARE we?

--p!

[TwilightGardener]

8. Uh, no. The Obama involvement was a fabrication. The press did not

follow Hillary's "wink wink". Nope, this deserves a FULL AIRING by the press, including why Hillary's campaign told the Canadians not to worry about NAFTA, and why it was decided to trump up the false charges against Obama right before the Ohio election.

[Dogmudgeon]

13. If you say so. But be careful what you wish for.

I think it's a crap scandal on all accounts, but if you think it's really all on eeevil Hillary, call for an investigation. I'll even second it. We can never have too few investigations.

--p!

[blocker]

9. WHY are the MSM not talking about that?

This is important news.

[TwilightGardener]

10. Because the Ohio election is over, the mission was accomplished--the media

hurt Obama's chances, with Hillary's help, and now they're not interested in exploring the truth, perhaps. They want the HORSE RACE!

[Metric System]

14. You give Stephen Harper far too much credit.