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December 11, 2008

Elections are for little people

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The tag line for this one was difficult. "A proud day for the Latverian community." "They made a doody and they called it peace." This stuff writes itself.

Having decided the country (and Quebec) needs a new Prime Minister without all the fuss of asking the electorate for their opinion on the subject, the Liberal party has dispensed with the cumbersome process of elections for party leader and simply acclaimed Vampire-Canadian, Michael Ignatieff. Who is kind of awesome. Judicious rule changes smoothed the process, of course. Belinda Stronach (who is smokin', smokin' hot) explains. Hope and change, my friends. Hope.

Also change.

For example, Ignatieff was pro-torture (he called it something else). And he has already attracted the ire of apologists, collaborationists and the enemy at the Toronto Star. Fair dues.

He was an active participant in the American public debate both preceding and following the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. He was among those liberals – a professor of human rights at Harvard, no less – who provided intellectual cover for Bush's neo-conservative policies. Ignatieff's positions were the exact opposite of where a majority of Canadians stood on issues that are a point of differentiation between Canada and the U.S.
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We got a taste of it early this year in Parliament. On Jan. 28, during a debate on Afghanistan, Defence Minister Peter MacKay noted: "He has said previously ... `To defeat evil,' we must `traffic in evils: indefinite detention of suspects, coercive interrogations, targeted assassinations, even pre-emptive war.'"

Two days later, MacKay added that the Taliban "might also be interested to know that he said, `Defeating terror requires violence. It may also require coercion, secrecy, deception, even violation of rights.'"

Call it a silver lining.

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Exit barf: Michael Ignatieff and Bob Rae went to the University of Toronto... seriously, UofT, FOAD. Click through for illustrative photo.

More interesting that the sum of Canadian politics: Ignatieff, known to Canadians as Iggy, and Iggy Pop; both born in the sun sign of Taurus.

Vitriol, xenophobia and ignorance... not just for the leftstream media: Writing for The Vancouver Sun, Stephen Hume is overwhelmed by a tsunami of caustic sarcasm in the Canadian blogosphere. Having been hit in the face by the frying pan of mixed metaphors, apparently.

He thinks conservatives mobilize more effectively, btw.

Posts fretted about "ordinary families" under assault by "lefties," as though some kind of Bolshevik revolution were brewing in the basements of Liberals and New Democrats.

"Lefties" compared Harper's prorogation tactic to Charles I governing for decades without convening parliament at all, as though the prime minister were about to anoint himself king by God's will.

I am happy to take credit for the Charles I comparison though where this "lefty" nonsense comes from is beyond me. I prefer to think of myself as a "reactionary"; they send me my ZOG cheque for making Stephen Harper look reasonable.

Posted by Ghost of a flea at December 11, 2008 05:27 AM

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