From Canada

I like Canada, I married into a Canadian family, and in New Hampshire I live less than an hour from the border. I even like the AM French stations I hear late at night with the music so un American.

Now from north of our border comes the following statement:

The fact that Willard M. Romney is still running almost even in the polls despite his demiurgic implausibility as a candidate, afflicted by a one-person pandemic of foot-in-mouth disease, illustrates the concern of the American voters. Either Romney lucks through and numerate sanity starts to return to American public life, or the most self-destructively incompetent regime since James Buchanan brought on the Civil War, will come back and stoke up a truly spectacular inferno that will purify America in a mighty economic Jonestown. There will be no more tugging at a trouser leg from Canada — either a comradely pat on the back, or a neighbourly blast with a fire extinguisher, but this operatic crescendo can’t continue for one more full act.

 Perhaps we should listen and heed it. From the time of Gov Thompson and his need to arm New Hampshire with nuclear weapons to defend themselves against the "Commies" in the North, to now with the North telling us that we are worse off than most others, and they are correct, it will be interesting to see if any down here are listening.

This is worth a read.