[via Relapsed Catholic] Here’s a breathless writeup of a pro-Bush rally organized by the unintentionally funny site FreeDominion.ca (“Show up and be counted”, the banner ad for the rally says).
Judging from the photos, I think I get more people at my birthday parties, and I’m not a world leader. Yet.
A funny moment: The “Queen Amidala Decoy” trick actually works in real life!
Finally, the big moment — the fake Bush came through with his
motorcade and we cheered, not quite certain if this was the real thing.
Fortunately, the Secret Service intervened and held us back, at which
point everything clicked for those of us who weren’t certain. In
hindsight, it seemed a little strange that the President was driving
his own cadillac.
In addition to being unlikely to solve quadratic equations anytime soon, they’re also bad hosts:
Also unlike the anti-Bush rally, we outnumbered the Americans by about
10 to 1 at our pro-Bush rally. Nevertheless, the Americans who showed
up displayed the class as the President — after the pre-rally, they
approached each of us Canadians and personally thanked us for giving
the President a warm welcome. (They also showed American hospitality
when, despite our protests we should treat them as our guests, they
picked up the tab for coffee and donuts at Tim Horton’s between the
pre-rally and the rally.)
Yup, despite outnumbering the guests 10 to 1 and being more likely to
have the local currency on hand, the FreeDominioners completely fell
down and let the visitors
pay for coffee. The poltical right, in spite of the fun I poke at
them, are generally much better with the social graces than their
cousins on the left, but ours completely fell down on the rules of
hospitality while the Americans went above and beyond the rules of comity. We’re not talking chateaubriand-and-claret dinners here, folks, but coffee! No wonder we Canadians have a rep for being bad tippers.
