Canadian federal election 2006

[phil]

You guys just stated everything
that had to be said about the next election ...

Can we vote NOW and be done with it !!

[Dr. Drum]

So impatient, Phil! Surely you want to see Gilles Duceppe’s new line of Bloc promo hockey pucks first? And Stephen’s new "5% GST" Christmas tree ornaments. And come on, you know Jack Layton’s New Year’s Eve party is gonna be a blast!!

[Rit]

i do, i do!

[rockkid]

I posted this before but for some reason it's gone.



A young man named Paul bought a donkey for $100. When the farmer arrived, he had bad news. "Sorry, son. The donkey is on my truck, but he's dead."

"Then just give me my money back."

"Sorry, son, I can't. I spent it."

"OK, just unload the donkey anyway."

"What are ya gonna do with a dead donkey?"

"You'll see."

A month later, the farmer met up with Paul and asked, "What did you do with that dead donkey?"

"I raffled him off. I sold 500 tickets at $2 each and made $698."

"Nobody was angry about the donkey being dead?"

The only guy who found out was the raffle winner. When he came to claim his prize, I gave him his $2 back plus $200 extra, double the going value of a donkey. He thought I was a great guy."

Paul grew up and became the prime minister of Canada.

No matter how many times he stretched the truth or how much money his party allegedly stole from Canadian voters, as long as he gave them back some of the stolen money, most of them thought he was a great guy.

[phil]

Was the farmer's name Steven by any chance ... ? ;D ?

[Dr. Drum]

Sorry, RK, but that’s not our Paul. You had to get the bit in where he tries intently to figure out what did the donkey in in the first place and somehow manages to shoot his own foot off in the process.

[Dr. Drum]

"Move over Tony Blair: If elected, Mr. Harper will quickly become Mr. Bush's new best friend internationally and the poster boy for his ideal foreign leader."

washingtontimes.com/commentary/20051201-081526-4938r.htm

Safe to say that the Conservatives will not be playing up the 'Harper as poster boy for George Bush’s ideal foreign leader' angle as part of their current election strategy.

[Rit]

docdrum said:

"Move over Tony Blair: If elected, Mr. Harper will quickly become Mr. Bush's new best friend internationally and the poster boy for his ideal foreign leader."

washingtontimes.com/commentary/20051201-081526-4938r.htm

Safe to say that the Conservatives will not be playing up the 'Harper as poster boy for George Bush’s ideal foreign leader' angle as part of their current election strategy.

that article was nauseating.

[riley]

docdrum said:

"Move over Tony Blair: If elected, Mr. Harper will quickly become Mr. Bush's new best friend internationally and the poster boy for his ideal foreign leader."

washingtontimes.com/commentary/20051201-081526-4938r.htm

Safe to say that the Conservatives will not be playing up the 'Harper as poster boy for George Bush’s ideal foreign leader' angle as part of their current election strategy.

Let's hope they do.

[phil]

I'd hate to be a Conservative candidate in Québec ...

They will probably get less votes than the Green Party
or the Bloc Pot party ... !!

[phil]

AMBASSADOR'S CRITICISM IS MANNA FOR LIBERALS

Globe and Mail

When trying to gauge whether Paul Martin actually takes a popularity hit from yesterday's scolding by the White House, consider this question: Is anybody going to join David Wilkins in attacking Mr. Martin over the next few days, or will the opposition prefer to let sleeping dogs lie?

The U.S. ambassador to Canada delivered what many Liberals believe was manna from heaven when he censured the Liberals for using President George W. Bush's administration as a punching bag in the election campaign. The fact is that taking a few well-pointed jabs at Mr. Bush is not an unpopular thing to do in Canada these days, and it will be instructive to see whether opposition politicians join with Mr. Wilkins in trying to get Mr. Martin to quiet down.

Canadian public opinion suggests they won't.

With the election race as close as it is, Conservative Leader Stephen Harper is acutely aware that a misstep on the Canada-U.S. file could be disastrous.

After being portrayed in 2004 as the man who would have brought Canada into the Iraq war, Mr. Harper took pains yesterday to reiterate that it simply isn't true.

He was also compelled earlier this week to set the record straight with a major U.S. paper that had published a column suggesting Mr. Harper was pro-Iraq war, anti-Kyoto and socially conservative.

In his letter to The Washington Times, Mr. Harper noted that, in a recent speech, he warned that Canada will have to make other "long-term choices" about its trading future if the United States doesn't respect the free-trade deal. On Iraq, he said that while he supported the removal of Saddam Hussein, he would not commit Canadian troops to that country.

Finally, a Harper-led government would not initiate or support any effort to pass legislation restricting abortion, he wrote.

Mr. Martin, of course, is already using Mr. Wilkins's comments to attack Mr. Harper, suggesting yesterday that the Conservative Leader's solution to Canada-U.S. relations is to "concede everything to the United States."

[phil]

Politicians ... !!

They will say anything if they think it will get them
a few more votes without too much alienating their base ...

[phil]

I do remember Stephen Harper going on record in 2003
in support of invading Iraq in the Wall Street Journal.

He is also the Canadian politician who falsely told
two American network television audiences
that most Canadians did not agree
with their government's decision to stay out of Iraq.

[rockkid]

You know I was actually a little offended.
This is not a US election so they need to stay out of it (the states that is)
Let the chips fall where they may.

[phil]

Rockkid ~ But not offended enough to vote Liberal ...

... HÉ ? ;D ?

JK\JK\JK