Harper's tone has always been demeaning and belittling towards those who are in a weaker position than his or at odds with him. Just ask Belinda Stronach.
This psychological characteristic very much resembles one of George Bush's. Among dozens of such ugly statements, Bush once belittled the pleas for mercy of a pathetic woman – one who had “given her life to Jesus” - facing the death penalty, imitating her voice and pleas to a reporter.
Laughing at others in this particular way is the clearest possible evidence of a basic tendency towards fascism in someone's character. It reveals a degree of psychopathy.
Harper is restrained only by the majority of Canadian voters' repulsion of his values. He works very hard to appear somewhat moderate, but he is not moderate at all. It is a deliberately imposed lull by a man who is a control-freak.
I just can’t get out of my mind his trying to blame the brave men who stood at their UN post in Southern Lebanon after Israel deliberately targeted and killed them in its brutal invasion of Lebanon. One of them was a fine Canadian officer, never praised by Harper but blamed.
Harper is not Canada, he is West Texas without the accent and the backslapping.
He is running around the world misrepresenting us and our values, and he is changing law after law in directions most Canadians do not want to go, were they able to vote directly.
We really must do what we can to enable Canadians to pool their support around an opposition leader.
I like Dion very much, he has fine qualities that would have suited Canada at another time, but he has not demonstrated any of the deftness and drive of the remarkable Chretien. And deftness and drive are needed to get us out of the current political logjam.
We need a new opposition leader, soon, and I think he's sitting there, waiting. His name is Bob Rae.
