Know When To Fold 'Em

President Obama's all too brief visit (five hours) to Canada in order to blow smoke at Harper discuss with Prime Minister Stephen Harper issues of mutual international interest might have stoked the dying embers of love from some of the more fluff-headed of his groupies but in the end proved to be nothing more than a PR stunt.



Harper remained his clear-headed and cool self to Obama's hem-and-hawing to the ever-loving media and gushed poetically about his "love" for Canada, the typical reaction of an American socialist who has never had to wait for six hours in a Canadian emergency room because he can't find a family physician (also has never had to shovel his drive way). Harper explained in the simplest words he knew to CNN's Wolf Blitzer how Canada is not completely drowning in the greed-induced recession and refrained (wisely so) from giving America any advice in stemming the oncoming tide of poverty. Obama, eager not only to rob Americans of their money in social programs that won't work and to bulk up support for a war in Afghanistan he hopes will be his grand military legacy, smiled and poured on the silken charm that some believe got him the highest office in the land.



Had Mr. Obama studied physics instead of "community organization", he would know that once up, there is nowhere left to go but down.

The love affair can't last forever.