How many Americans knew that Obama was in Canada yesterday?

Very interesting to see hardly any US media coverage of Obama's historic
first foreign visit as president. Normally the media covers everything
Obama does, every door knob he reaches for that's really a window, etc.

Also very interesting to see not one mention of the trip to Ottawa on
Drudgereport.

I have to wonder what was really the point of the 7 hour visit. I
think, again, as usual, that the EXTREME preoccupation with energy,
particularly oil, is at the center of what most presidents do for the
past 30 years.

While most of the coverage is slanted towards "green" energy development
and usage, I think Obama's brief mention of "energy security" is key to
understanding why the trip was made, and what was discussed in private
with PM Harper.

While Bush and Cheney were quite ignorant of Canada and for the past 8
years were quite content with spending billions and expending thousands
of lives to keep mid-east oil flowing west, I think what we're seeing
here is a huge policy shift where the Obama whitehouse will focus more
on insuring that the US has ample access to Canadian oil and natural
gas, possibly to the point of *preventing* environmental and climate
concerns from impeding the extraction of tar-sands oil.

And while all this is going on, feel-good TV commercials during the
evening network news (put out by the US energy cabal) continue to extol
the virtues of extracting every last ounce of "American energy" from
"American sources". Such advertizing is, naturally, designed to soften
US opposition to energy extraction in environmentally sensitive areas.
Look for more "clean coal" PR coming soon to a TV and newspaper near
you.

So to re-cap: The message that Canada is getting from the Obama white
house is this: Keep the oil, the natural gas, the hydro-electricity
flowing south to the US, and we'll take out some of the "Buy American"
clauses in the stimulus package and maybe keep the US/Canada border from
"thickening up" too much in the (false) name of security.

The trip and Harper's and Obama's remarks were reported word for word in
French and English on Bloomberg, among other media.

Step outside the bubble lately?



MoPar Man wrote:

> Very interesting to see hardly any US media coverage of Obama's historic
> first foreign visit as president.

Canada isn't "a foreign visist"...

....he says and ducks out of the way of flying brick-bats...

:-)
DAS

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> The trip and Harper's and Obama's remarks were reported word for word in
> French and English on Bloomberg, among other media.
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> Step outside the bubble lately?
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> MoPar Man wrote:
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>> Very interesting to see hardly any US media coverage of Obama's historic
>> first foreign visit as president.

Dori A Schmetterling wrote:

> Canada isn't "a foreign visit"...
>
> ...he says and ducks out of the way of flying brick-bats...

You know, we (Canadians) know that.

American's (generally) don't.

MoPar Man wrote:
> Very interesting to see hardly any US media coverage of Obama's historic
> first foreign visit as president.

Perhaps these were some kickoff meetings towards dissolving borders and
establishing the North American Union.

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> MoPar Man wrote:
> > Very interesting to see hardly any US media coverage of Obama's historic
> > first foreign visit as president.
>
> Perhaps these were some kickoff meetings towards dissolving borders and
> establishing the North American Union.
>
> --
> Bill Putney
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Horrors.
We know what it was about- OIL and other energy!

What?

What about NAFTA?

Or do you mean the assimilation of Canada within the USA...?...

DAS

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> What about NAFTA?
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> Or do you mean the assimilation of Canada within the USA...?...

Well, you know, if a bail-out package of sufficient size could be
split among a portion of 30 million (plus) Canadians, maybe certain
parts could be purchased..................)

I mean establishing a N.A. equivalent of the E.U., which is on the
agenda of certain people.

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> What about NAFTA?
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> Or do you mean the assimilation of Canada within the USA...?...
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>> Perhaps these were some kickoff meetings towards dissolving borders and
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Dori A Schmetterling wrote:

> What about NAFTA?
> Or do you mean the assimilation of Canada within the USA...?

Bill Putney wrote:

> I mean establishing a N.A. equivalent of the E.U., which is on the
> agenda of certain people.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_Union

http://tinyurl.com/ddgzww