POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN BY LAWRENCE MARTIN IN TORONTO'S GLOBE AND MAIL
It was an unpleasant melodrama.
It is simply idiotic to appeal to people on the basis that your relative died after you've shown such insensitivity.
If Ms. Raitt's personal experience had been so moving, why did it not inform her future speech?
Ridiculous.
This is American bathos politics at its worst.
And Ms. Raitt is an unpleasant narcissist.
No wonder Harper likes her.
