Preston Manning sets a new record for meaningless, delusional commentary.
"Americans invest more time, energy and money than Canadians do in preparing the politicians and supporting casts for their roles and responsibilities on the political stage."
Investment in politicians in America?
Palin? Bush? Cheney? Lott? DeLay? Thurmond? Agnew? Quayle? Gingrich? Hastert? Rumsfeld? Dole?
Preston Manning just has to be kidding, or we can only conclude he's gone completely off his rocker.
The only investment these folks and scores of others have received is tons of money from right-wing lobbies to promote themselves.
They are all uninformed and parochial, but they are/were immensely well financed to promote uninformed, parochial, and even hateful views.
Mr Manning refers to America's “think tanks.” Good Lord, save Canada from that fate!
The Heritage Foundation, The American Enterprise Institute, and a number of others are nothing but well-financed propaganda mills posing as quasi-academic institutions.
Their "fellows" are mostly retired right-wing hacks having been given sinecures. They remind me of actors in white lab coats on television ads pretending to be doctors.
A while back I checked the Internet site of one of the largest of these to get an e-mail address for one of their "fellows" who had been on CBC Radio promoting hostilities towards Venezuela, in the process making an ignorant claim that Hitler was also, like Chavez, elected.
The truth is Hitler's party's high-water mark in elections was 37%. He was appointed Chancellor by the ancient President von Hindenburg in a desperate hope of restoring a civil peace that Hitler's very party helped destroy. An "historian" should know better, but not at one of these crummy joints.
My point is that in looking for an e-mail on the fancy site of this "think tank," the opening page had a big banner singing the praises of Rush Limbaugh. Yes, the poisonous frat boy who gets to spew hate year after year for millions of dollars. Some serious institution. Some investment.
