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Wake up and smell the disenchantment

JOHN IBBITSON

From Thursday's Globe and Mail

Latest comment posted at 1:13 AM EDT 16/05/08

Republicans face reality that there are now few safe seats in the House of Representatives ...Read the full article

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  1. Nick McLean from Halifax, writes: For my entire life the US and most of the western world has been run by conservatives. I grew up in hte "me" age--one man, one vote, one gun. Individual rights flourished, innovation was encouraged and many people prospered. But many were left behind in what is becoming an increasingly polarized world.
    I grew up, to coin Mulroney's term, in a "a community of communites"--everyone had their own are, their own property, their own place. Public initiatives usually targeted one group or another--but rarely society as a whole. While these were often necessary initiatives, they served to seperate people emotionally.
    I think among my generation there is a great yearning for some sort of collective purpose-not some sort of radical socialism (red scares have blocked unity for two decades)--but an idea that we are all in this together. That is why Obama's message has such appeal in my view.
    We cannot solve the pressing problems of the present with further balkanization. What unites us is greater than what divides us. We need to hear this message and we need leaders who will bring us together whether we are black, white, asian, latino, male or female. I hope to be part of this change.
  2. L Harder from Canada writes: Run the country into the ground while making your buddies rich and eventually the populace starts to smell the coffee. The nasty underbelly of the Iraq war is starting to hit home at the domestic level with veterans coming back, sometimes injured to tell their stories. Combine that with people losing their homes and you can't get much more personal than that.

    An honorable administration would admit failure and step down rather than rub salt in the wounds of America by pretending that everything is fine.
  3. Cheryl Nelson from Bloomington, MN, United States writes: On the "new" Republican platform - Pete Townsend said it best: "Meet the new boss...same as the old boss."


    Voters should take another page from Townsend: "We won't get fooled again."
  4. Michael Tripper from uver, Canada writes: solid column - though I already know stuff like this as an avid follower of American and Canadian politics - it's good to report this stuff and let canucks know what is really going on down south.

    That third consecutive Democrat win in Mississippi makes Clinton's cry that only she can win the general election an even bigger canard than before.
  5. Marc S from Canada writes: I, for one, cannot wait for the flat earth society to be replaced already by say , perhaps, a government perceived to be in the 21st century at least. Harper is next to go.
  6. B Fulsom from Menlo Park, United States writes: When a Democrat wins an election by declaring himself pro-life, pro-gun, and by publicly distancing himself from the presumptive party nominee, is he really a Democrat?
  7. Derek Elliot from Canada writes: McCain, endless war, yeah sure that's going to fly with the American people. The three leading candidates are dancing to the new world order: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpjObTiwxug
  8. A J from Canada writes: I was happy to see this story covered in the Globe and Mail. Good work, John Ibbitson.

    Seems to be a lot of fear afoot among Republicans this year--and well deserved fear, too. Many of the Republicans in Congress just went along with whatever the Bush Administration asked them to do, rather than challenging the Administration when they should have.

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