Why does America have a social democrat president while Canada has a conservative president?

[Patricia]

because Canada is farther down the road to socialism than we are and have decided it's not such a smooth ride.. they have already gone through actual socialism for around 25 years and experienced the fiscal and social failure in their own lives, and their citizens have just recently voted conservatives back into power.

hopefully, the USA is on an accelerated path back to conservativism. i am of the opinion that is was a WONDERFUL thing that we ended up with Nancy Pelosi & Harry Reid (two ultra left power hungry crazies without a clue) leading a completely Dem/Lib Congress, and, just to put the cherry on that sundae, got saddled with crazy clueless Obama.

American (70% leaning conservative, fiscally and socially) got a front row look at what a Leftist/Progressive/Socialist nation looks like - a veritable pig-sty, with the pigs squealing and snorfling at the trough in a mindless scarfing of the American economy.

If McCain (uber-RINO) had been elected, this process would have been much slower, as McCain's declaration of himself as a Republican would disguise his Liberal/Progressive policies.