{"id":1849,"date":"2004-05-28T10:09:59","date_gmt":"2004-05-28T15:09:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/1849.html"},"modified":"2004-05-28T10:09:59","modified_gmt":"2004-05-28T15:09:59","slug":"now-foreign-campaign-ads-use-america-as-a-model-of-what-to-avoid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/now-foreign-campaign-ads-use-america-as-a-model-of-what-to-avoid\/","title":{"rendered":"Now foreign campaign ads use America as a model — of what to avoid"},"content":{"rendered":"

I know Bush has soured relations with Canada over the last few years, but I didn’t realize it had come to this<\/a>.<\/p>\n

As I noted a couple of weeks ago, foreign leaders have found that creating distance between themselves and the U.S. is suddenly a key to political success. In recent years, it’s worked in Germany<\/a>, Brazil<\/a>, South Korea<\/a>, and Spain<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And now, it’s spread to Canada, which is not only our neighbor, but our best trading partner and long-time political ally.<\/p>\n

An alert reader sent me a link yesterday to a new campaign ad<\/a> hitting the airwaves featuring Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin, suggesting that a vote for his Liberal Party will prevent Canada from being like the United States.<\/p>\n

Look, you can have a country like Canada, or you can have a country like the U.S. But you can’t have a country like Canada, with the taxation levels of the U.S. Not without risking the very social programs, the institutions and values that make us, us.<\/p>\n

We look out for one another. That’s the Canada we choose: Prosperous, yet generous of spirit. We hope, that’s the Canada you’ll choose too.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I think it’s safe to say we’ve lost that whole “shinning city on a hill” allure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I know Bush has soured relations with Canada over the last few years, but I didn’t realize it had come to this. As I noted a couple of weeks ago, foreign leaders have found that creating distance between themselves and the U.S. is suddenly a key to political success. In recent years, it’s worked in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1849\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}