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Don't worry about your guns. Obama's job is to get a country estranged from its great and glorious character back on track, restoring its prestige, getting its industrious, resourceful and idealistic people pulling together to do all the things the republic is capable of doing. No one could fault McCain last night for saying the United States is "the greatest country in the world."

What happened yesterday wasn't right or left, Marxist, socialist, liberal or conservative. Conservatives participated actively in the victory. As many of the so-called Religious Right, a transitory movement, voted Democrat as Republican. Palin's parochialism, embarassing to many conservatives, will be gone by 2012. America's job now is to repair things.

There's a new distribution of world economic and political power. American unilateralism is out, multilateralism is in. The US will embrace the Geneva Convention, the UN affirmation against torture and the right of habeas corpus, revalidation of the International Criminal Court, and tackle nuclear non-proliferation and climate-change.

The American people yesterday demonstrated the moral authority to lead the free world. I was blurry-eyed at pictures of the Grant Park wrap-up last night. I was with MLK in the bad times, at Lincoln Memorial and in Oslo when he received the Prize. I was there when Grisson, Chaffe and White died on the Cape gantry, and with the Kennedy brothers, at Ole Miss with Meredith. Bless them and all of you.

I figured you didn't, Dig. Sorry I snapped.

For what it's worth, a lot of us in the US don't fit into "camps" anymore. Since I'm essentially a Goldwater conservative - pro choice, with little patience for the judgmental social engineering crap that the evangelicals shoved down the throats of the Republican Party during the Reagan years - I have no political "home" in our system.

The fear is well justified. This guy is just another Hugo Chavez. Watching my country being dismantled by a Marxist thug is going to be heartbreaking.

King - I frankly resent be lectured about US successes or problems by a Canadian. And most of your comments about conservatives and who they voted for are completely wrong.

Worry about your own problems including rationing your health care. Hope it doesn't affect you when you need it.

Thanks for your consideration, buddypol. Going in for second cataract operation next week, following the first a month ago on my left eye: 20/25. Two-week wait. Cost out of pocket only for the two lens, total $CAN 580. Universal healthcare isn't perfect but we're getting there. And no more excuses for missing ducks in poor light!

Politics aside King:
I hope all goes well with your eye surgery next week. I count myself as extremely fortunate in that I only need glasses for close in work like reading. No alibis alowed on my part for missing; However if I could just see well enough to get the shells in the gun!
Jim

King - also hope your surgery goes well. Hope you got your choice of doctor and didn't trade rapid turn around for that option. I also think you are lucky it wasn't some other procedure based on what I see on provincial websites about waiting for available space. But, in the end I guess it helps the profit of our border hospitals because they do a booming business in Canadians seekly timely care. Does your government pay for that also?

A shooter with a dog working a hedgerow for pheasant is wasting his time when on his own. At best he is reducing the chances of the hunt by 50%. If he collaborates with a buddy, particularly one who knows the terrain, to walk on the other side of the fence, listens to him when he says what is happening or what coverts or obstacles are there, discusses the options, he increases his chance of success. If he doesn’t listen to his buddy or, worse, p##### him off, he is wasting his time and is doomed to failure,
US foreign policy in a nutshell.

We need each other. Most of us had great friendship with and respect for the US. Solo runs diminished that enormously. Let’s hope Obama will mend the fences.

King, good luck on the eye-op. Some years back my cousin in BC had to wait much longer for his, due to the high number of US citizens going north to get it done more cheaply!
Best,
K.

Kerryman:
Please do not ascribe a motive to this other than a wish to understand.

Do you suggest that our government consult with European government before deciding what is in the best interest of the United States?
Or do you refer to the United Nations for such consultation?
Best regards,
John

And here I thought I was enjoying some recreation.

(just kidding K-man)
Regards
Chuck

Yes, provincial governments have set wait times and if treatment not available will pay for travel and care in US where the appropriate care is available. We choose our own GPs and specialists. There is a doctor shortage.