Bullshit Artists

"Hollywood in general is on red anxiety alert for an Obama loss.
Crack teams of chiropractors are at the ready, and Nissen huts full of qualified shrinks and aromatherapists line Rodeo Drive to soothe the tortured brigades of the psychologically wounded should 'The One' be robbed of victory.

Actress Susan Sarandon has already issued a veiled threat to the public.

'It's a critical time, but I have faith in the American people,' she told Britain's Telegraph newspaper with a touch of implied menace in June this year. 'If they prove me wrong, I'll be checking out a move to Italy. Maybe Canada, I don't know. We're at an abyss …'

Sarandon's words qualify her for membership of a small but committed group of Potential Canadians (PCs) in American artistic and creative circles.

Barbra Streisand vowed to emigrate to Canada in 2000 if George Bush were ever elected President, an undertaking she refreshed four years later at the prospect of his re-election.

But she was still sufficiently resident in California on September 16 this year to host a $US2500 ($3800) a head fund-raiser for Obama at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel.

The actor Alec Baldwin and Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder made similar threats in 2000, as did Robert Redford in 2004, but none has since enriched the Canadian cultural scene.

In fact, Canadian immigration records show that arrivals from the United States actually slowed in the six months after George Bush's re-election in 2004."

-- Annabel Crabb, on the NewAge "creative types" who have delivered much of our bad political art - but delivered nothing on their promises to leave - in the Sydney Morning Herald.