POSTED RESPONSES TO A COLUMN BY JOHN IBBITSON IN TORONTO'S GLOBE AND MAIL
Speaking of being a "master of delivery," consider Ignatieff's ridiculous ad running over and over on CBC Radio, the one about his mother - yes, you heard right, his mother - and health care.
It is absolutely off-putting.
Instead of talking hard and seriously about a major issue, this so-called master of delivery talks about mom.
Who in his right mind is going to pay attention to that?
It's a pathetic effort to play on emotions associated with motherhood to gain support. Yuck.
And it is clearly also a weak further attempt to cement the idea that he is, after all, a local boy.
Ignatieff has always been overrated as an intellectual, as a speaker, and as a man concerned with human rights.
Many people clearly see all this, and it's why Ignatieff is falling on his face.
Again, what "master of delivery" plays Pa Kettle on a long cross-country bus trip and thinks he is doing anything worthwhile?
Playing Pa Kettle was already an admission of failure.
People aren't listening because they know the Ignatieff Show is boring, and his season is about to be cancelled.
He will win only a bitter legacy of being responsible for Stephen Harper's winning a five year term, free to tear apart the Canada so many of us love.
Ignatieff is the perfect example of hubris - a man of no political talents and not having the character to resist taking what was handed to him by some sorry backroom politicians.
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From another reader:
"Freedom of choice, Harper and, his Evangelical Christian Theo-Cons if successful at a Majority Government dream of a roll back of same-sex marriage laws plus enshrine fetal rights on the citizens of Canada"
Harper represents a far more pervasive threat than that, an act which would be next to impossible.
Harper will eliminate federal subsidies to parties, thus opening the gates to complete special-interest campaign contributions. You want to see what a set of disasters this can open up? Look at the United States where this is the way it’s done.
Supreme Court appointments represent the some kind of long-term danger as campaign-finance changes.
Harper will continue marching in lock-step with the United States on a huge range of issues, from purchasing the clunker F-35 which costs the GNP of a small nation to sending more Canadians on America's now regular crusades against those with whom it disagrees and to a perimeter treaty and to giving the US a special place in our Arctic.
Of course, we will continue for years to hear intellectual trash about criticism of Israel is anti-Semitism. Maybe we'll even get a law in that police-state direction.
He will build his new gulag of prisons, no matter what the cost.
The Foreign Service - Pearson's beloved Foreign Service - will continue to be told that there are no such things as child soldiers.
Our reputation internationally goes from being another Sweden to being another Pinochet's Chile.
Program cuts to end the deficit. You ain't seen nothing yet.
