Some thoughts about the election:
- the Liberal "attack" ads - wow, how original. These are perhaps the most loathsome, laugh out loud examples of negative advertising I've ever seen. They are chock full of false innuendo, quotes from 10 year old speeches taken out of context, and outright lies. Basically, I guess they are trying to say that Stephen Harper is a radicalrightwingRepublicanmilitarydictatorbabykillingnotwithstandingclauseusing crackpot. Whew. I never knew!
I guess when you have nothing positive to offer Canadians there is nothing left to do other than lash out and attempt to slander the oposition. Will it be effective this time around? Who knows...we'll see on the 23rd.
- What really gets me in all this is that every time he is near a microphone Paul Martin calls for "civility" in the campaign...and then, in the next instance, he's getting out the mud cannon and firing away at Stephen Harper as if he were talking about the devil himself. Can we all say "hypocrite"? I wonder how Martin can actually keep a straight face as a spews this bullshit - I'm kind of waiting for the internal contradictions to finally collide within that overwrought cranium if his and simply cause his head to explode.
- If it wasn't obvious before, after the way Martin deftly reached behind him during Monday's debate and pulled a new notwithstanding clause policy out of his ass it should be obvious now that PMPM is just making this up as he goes along. Proposing a major constitutional change, basically as a crass political ploy in the middle of an election campaign, surely should be evidence that Martin is categorically unfit to lead the country. The man will literally say anything to get elected, and as a result, you can trust nothing he says. Nothing. I'm still waiting for word, for instance, on how that war on the politics of cronyism and corruption is going...or does that end only when he runs out of cronies to appoint to the senate? How about that democratic deficit? Still there? Right...
- Its getting to the point where I am going to have to buy a new TV. Everytime I see smiling Jack Layton on television begging us to elect more New Democrats because they work for "people" I throw something at the damn TV set. What an idiot. That and his constant railing against corporate tax cuts infuriate me. Who employs those "people", Jack? Especially union members? Oh, right - Corporations. And in a competive global economy what is a good way to attract more of those companies to your jursidiction? Oh, right, don't tax them into the ground (see Ireland - great example of what can happen when you try and create a business friendly climate). Jack should pay a little more attention to 21st century reality and less to his class-warfare ideology. More companies choosing to do business in Canada means more jobs (yes, for people, Jack) and more revenue for gvernment to throw away on all your pet projects.
- the Liberal "attack" ads - wow, how original. These are perhaps the most loathsome, laugh out loud examples of negative advertising I've ever seen. They are chock full of false innuendo, quotes from 10 year old speeches taken out of context, and outright lies. Basically, I guess they are trying to say that Stephen Harper is a radicalrightwingRepublicanmilitarydictatorbabykillingnotwithstandingclauseusing crackpot. Whew. I never knew!
I guess when you have nothing positive to offer Canadians there is nothing left to do other than lash out and attempt to slander the oposition. Will it be effective this time around? Who knows...we'll see on the 23rd.
- What really gets me in all this is that every time he is near a microphone Paul Martin calls for "civility" in the campaign...and then, in the next instance, he's getting out the mud cannon and firing away at Stephen Harper as if he were talking about the devil himself. Can we all say "hypocrite"? I wonder how Martin can actually keep a straight face as a spews this bullshit - I'm kind of waiting for the internal contradictions to finally collide within that overwrought cranium if his and simply cause his head to explode.
- If it wasn't obvious before, after the way Martin deftly reached behind him during Monday's debate and pulled a new notwithstanding clause policy out of his ass it should be obvious now that PMPM is just making this up as he goes along. Proposing a major constitutional change, basically as a crass political ploy in the middle of an election campaign, surely should be evidence that Martin is categorically unfit to lead the country. The man will literally say anything to get elected, and as a result, you can trust nothing he says. Nothing. I'm still waiting for word, for instance, on how that war on the politics of cronyism and corruption is going...or does that end only when he runs out of cronies to appoint to the senate? How about that democratic deficit? Still there? Right...
- Its getting to the point where I am going to have to buy a new TV. Everytime I see smiling Jack Layton on television begging us to elect more New Democrats because they work for "people" I throw something at the damn TV set. What an idiot. That and his constant railing against corporate tax cuts infuriate me. Who employs those "people", Jack? Especially union members? Oh, right - Corporations. And in a competive global economy what is a good way to attract more of those companies to your jursidiction? Oh, right, don't tax them into the ground (see Ireland - great example of what can happen when you try and create a business friendly climate). Jack should pay a little more attention to 21st century reality and less to his class-warfare ideology. More companies choosing to do business in Canada means more jobs (yes, for people, Jack) and more revenue for gvernment to throw away on all your pet projects.
