One thing I do think will be really interesting is how Parliament QT will be this week … things ought to be hopping over on the “generic thread” LOL …..

By your logic then Rudd must not be looking forward to 2010?
Canada is better placed than any country to ride it out werent their banks put No1 now i know they’re close to the USA but I’d say the Tories will pick up seats I mean could you vote for a party whose leader cannot even converse well in your own language…nope!

Hussey just got his hundred … second test hundred against India and 9th overall

and Australia has won every game he has got a hundred in… a good omen

http://www.thestar.com/article/515212
Tories show video to play up Dion’s language difficulties

http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/story.html?id=6aa1118e-37d6-4916-b403-896418a5fe9b
Tories try to make hay with fumbled Dion interview

heheheh here comes a Tory majority thankyou frenchie!

It would seem that Obama has been studying the 1932 Great Depression campaign of Franklin D. Roosevelt. In recent days, Obama has painted himself as calm, pragmatic, open and hopeful. He seemed to be channeling FDR when he told a crowd in Indianapolis on Wednesday: "This isn't a time for fear or for panic. This is a time for resolve and steady leadership."

As for McCain, his campaign is trying to sow fear and panic about Obama. That's exactly what Herbert Hoover tried to do with Roosevelt. Days before the 1932 election, Hoover attacked Roosevelt's "inchoate new deal." He predicted it would "crack the timbers of the Constitution" and warned voters to beware of the "glitter of promise."

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/10/deficits_or_not_spending_must.html

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24475191-2703,00.html

* personally, I don’t care a whole lot about Canadian politics but the article here notes that the financial crisis is hitting the incumbent party in the polls there as it is in the US.

Canada's ruling Conservatives, who came to power in 2006 after 13 years of Liberal rule, have called a snap election for October 14 in an attempt to win the 28 extra seats they need for an outright majority in the 308-seat Parliament. Until recently a united political Right had a 10-point lead in the polls over the fragmented opposition, comprising the Liberals, the left-leaning New Democratic Party, the Greens and the separatist Bloc Quebecois. But the financial crisis has scrambled the race; now the Conservatives lead by just five points.

http://www.sfu.ca/~aheard/elections/polls.html