The "Black guy" Walt refers to is Conrad Black, the ex-con who was formerly Lord Black of Cross Harbour, and founder of the Daily Tubby, [National Post, surely. Ed.] for which newspaper he continues to write a column.
His ex-lordship is a keen observer of Canadian politics, and of American politics even more so. Today he has a dire prediction regarding the upcoming presidential election. Its title: "Canada's front row seat for the American disaster". It's virtually impossible to precis Mr. Black, so Walt has selected three excerpts to give you the flavour and gist of his argument.
It is notorious that most Canadians are to some degree anti-American, though most are also appreciators of America, and this makes the present election in the United States, unfathomably banal though the campaign has been so far, a matter of legitimate comfort to most Canadians....
In an astounding demonstration of national fecklessness, a failed president is running slightly ahead in the polls of a challenger who has a real CV, unlike recent presidents, but who is so politically oafish and plastic, he makes Elmer Fudd seem charismatic....
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.
Strong stuff. American voters, don't say you weren't warned!
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