We’re Canucks, and yet our children are becoming passionate about American politics.  Even my youngest who is only 9.  And it’s not only my kids.  My oldest son’s friend was wearing an Obama 08 shirt the other day.  Whose vote is he trying to influence up here in the north?  My oldest son has “Democrat” and “Obama” as his politics in his Facebook profile, and he does understand that those can’t really be a Canadian boy’s politics.   Is this due to the celebrity McCain is accusing Obama of riding?  Or is this a youth’s perceptiveness?   He has seen and heard the crap coming out of the Bush admin,  and American politics are frighteningly important to the world in general, so maybe he’s just hoping for the change that Obama seems to represent.