Election-Mania!

Well- not really.

While straddling between the much-anticipated vice-presidential debates and the English-language debates here in Canada, I can conclude one thing- nothing is what one expected.

The vice-presidential debates went off better than the presidential debates did, in my opinion. While it was expected Governor Palin would be a train wreck, she was (as I predicted) very well-spoken. She was able to hold her own with Senator Biden, a politician with over thirty years experience. However, his experience did not sway my feelings of him raising taxes and making things miserable for the average American should he ever - God forbid- get elected.

While in Canada, we saw the five major parties quarrel over who would best stick it to the tax-payer. However one may feel about Stephen Harper, he runs the country as an economist, thereby watching every penny instead of frittering it away. Elizabeth May eviscerated whatever good mood was in the room by declaring she would run every aspect of Canadians' lives and by attacking Harper at every turn. If my dad is right- and he sometimes is- she will split the Green Party/NDP vote. Jack Layton, with his champagne-socialist demeanor, did not allay my fears of moving jobs to China and raising taxes. Gilles Duceppe, a man incapable of happiness, struck a particularly iresome note when he said- and I quote- "Canadian and Quebec troops". He doesn't see Quebec as a part of Canada, yet he is allowed to have his own party whose mandate it is to separate Canada. It was Stephen Dion who came off as the nicest but this nice guy will finish last.