By Jim Tankersley
Ok, we’ll ask: What’s up with all this Canadian meddling in our presidential election?
First there was a leaked government memo claiming a top economic advisor for Barack Obama had privately assured America’s northern neighbor that Obama didn’t really mean those nasty things he said about NAFTA (a charge the campaign denied).
Now, it appears a Canadian radio show managed to get a Hillary Clinton surrogate – a member of Congress no less – to say he believes Obama will win the presidency. Even worse for Clinton, the congressman compares her to the anemic Kansas City Chiefs.
Christopher Beam of Slate.com has a post up today on the subject:
“Surrogates seem to think that telling something to a foreign news agency means that their words won’t get back to the United States,” he writes. “How else to explain Sam Powers’ ‘monster’ comment to the Scotsman or a new statement on Canadian radio by Missouri Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, a Clinton superdelegate, that ‘Barack Obama is going to be the next president’?”To call Cleaver’s remarks off-message would be an understatement,” Beam continues. “Cleaver goes on to say with brutal, hilarious honesty that ‘[i]f I do the party line, I’m supposed to say—and maybe I’ll say just so if anybody hears it they can say well, “Cleaver did the party line before he told the truth,”—we believe that a contest going all the way to the convention is good for America,’ he said. But he calls that scenario a ‘tragedy of tragedies.’ Cleaver then reveals that he knows he’s supporting the losing team: ‘Even though I don’t expect the Kansas City Chiefs to beat the Indianapolis Colts, I cheer for the Kansas City Chiefs.'”
The audio is here.
The Chiefs, FYI, finished last year with a nine-game losing streak and a 4-12 record.
Clinton fans: If you’re feeling a little, shall we say, anti-Canadian right now, feel free to sing along with this (slightly edited for a family blog) “South Park” classic:
Sheila: Times have changed
Our kids are getting worse
They won’t obey their parents
They just want to fart and curse!
Sharon: Should we blame the government?
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Liane: Or blame society?
Dads: Or should we blame the images on TV?
Sheila: No, blame Canada
Everyone: Blame Canada
Sheila: With all their beady little eyes
And flapping heads so full of lies
Everyone: Blame Canada
Blame Canada
Sheila: We need to form a full assault
Everyone: It’s Canada’s fault!
Sharon: Don’t blame me
For my son Stan
He saw the damn cartoon
And now he’s off to join the Klan!
Liane: And my boy Eric once
Had my picture on his shelf
But now when I see him he tells me to —- myself!
Sheila: Well, blame Canada
Everyone: Blame Canada
Sheila: It seems that everything’s gone wrong
Since Canada came along
Everyone: Blame Canada
Blame Canada
Copy Guy: They’re not even a real country anyway
Ms. McCormick: My son could’ve been a doctor or a lawyer rich and true,
Instead he burned up like a piggy on the barbecue
Everyone: Should we blame the matches?
Should we blame the fire?
Or the doctors who allowed him to expire?
Sheila: heck no!
Everyone: Blame Canada
Blame Canada
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Sheila: With all their hockey hullabaloo
Liane: And that b—- Anne Murray too
Everyone: Blame Canada
Shame on Canada
For…
The smut we must stop
The trash we must bash
The Laughter and fun
Must all be undone
We must blame them and cause a fuss
Before somebody thinks of blaming uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuus!!!!