Last night, me and two of my friends where discussing the current political goings-on. You know, the war, health care and how Obama was handling each of them. Well, two of us are Texas born, and the other was Canadian born.

Interesting conversation, I was fortunate enough to have an epiphany.

            I’ve associated with Canadians in the past, but I have never known a Canadian long enough to really get to know them, let alone call them a friend. Well this fella, is a friend of mine, a good friend.

            My friend, had in the past, mentioned the fact that he moved to America to get away from the Canadian taxes, he desired to live in America in order to provide a better opportunity for himself and his family.

            Last night as we were talking, I couldn’t help but notice how he spoke about the current political situation in a, for lack of a better term, defeated sense. He spoke as one who had either never tasted freedoms victory, or had been beaten down so often, that waving a white flag in middle of an undetermined battle, was the prudent thing to do.

            I didn’t ask him if this was a Canadian way of speaking, I simply remembered the other Canadians I’d met in the past and how similar their speak had been. It was a gray area, in which they spoke, no black or white when it came to the issues. Well, being a Texan, the bad guys wear black and the good guys wear white. The guys wearing the gray outfits were caught in the middle and were simply bullet catchers, fired between the good guys and the bad guys.

I remember my friend constantly saying, when talking about the issues, “It’s complicated.” My only reply was, “Really?”

            When he spoke of Obama, he kept mentioning, how intelligent Obama was. He spoke of Obama’s education, implying how that set him above the normalcy of others. He spoke of Obama as if he where still under the rule of King or Queen. In a nutshell, speaking of one who would willing except what the government handed-out to him, even if it meant he would have to return to the same tax rate he ran away from when he moved from Canada.

            I’m sad to say that my friend has been raised, a defeated man, willing to except what those who have been placed above him, hands down to him. I don’t think he quite understands the American foundation, Americas’ concept, that the ones handing down this, load of crap, we Americans, have excepted for far to long, are elected representatives, replaceable at the whim of the people.

            Though he may be on to something, for if the American people don’t make drastic changes in the 2010 election, the norm that is the politics America, will be passed on to my children and on, until America is nothing more than a nation filled with those who speak like my friend, speaking Canadian.