tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post7655707534602593960..comments2024-03-22T05:20:44.167-07:00Comments on The Disaffected Lib: Canada Going Down America's Rabbit HoleThe Mound of Soundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-69754069454276452802019-07-16T12:36:41.611-07:002019-07-16T12:36:41.611-07:00NPoV you sent me scrambling for the worlds of Theo...<br />NPoV you sent me scrambling for the worlds of Theodore Roosevelt who, in 1910, standing on a farmhouse kitchen table, spoke for 90-minutes to a gathering of civil war veterans in Osawatomie, Kansas. Early in his speech Roosevelt said:<br /><br />"A broken promise is bad enough in private life. It is worse in the field of politics. No man is worth his salt in public life who makes on the stump a pledge which he does not keep after election; and, if he makes such a pledge and does not keep it, hunt him out of public life."<br /><br />We only get consulted every four years when an election rolls around. If the bastards can't tell us the truth on the hustings, we should hunt them out of public life. That goes doubly for people who are pretty and trade on a legendary name.The Mound of Soundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-13612233735209845972019-07-16T10:07:16.103-07:002019-07-16T10:07:16.103-07:00"Justin knew this when he appealed to voters ..."Justin knew this when he appealed to voters in 2015."<br /><br />I used to believe this ...<br /><br />another narrative that has become more compelling to me:<br /><br />As leader of the third party Jr felt he could promise the moon w/o needing to worry about winning enough power to be held to his promises.<br /><br />Why appoint the greenest rookie to the portfolio otherwise.Northern PoVhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04670080478290108536noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-35235481862391757372019-07-15T13:02:52.388-07:002019-07-15T13:02:52.388-07:00https://reviewcanada.ca/magazine/2017/05/why-trude...https://reviewcanada.ca/magazine/2017/05/why-trudeau-abandoned-electoral-reform/<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-77916441524097572602019-07-15T12:27:31.503-07:002019-07-15T12:27:31.503-07:00.. we like seafaring analogies .. thus
political ..... we like seafaring analogies .. thus<br /><br />political parties are like runaway ship anchors<br />cannot come about & into the wind off a lee shore<br />worm eaten bottom and hull<br />the captain drinks with the chaplain at night<br />there are no navigational charts<br />the world is known to be flat<br />the ship is overloaded with liquid cargo on deck<br /><br />tide is running in<br />not a lighthouse in sight<br />no life jackets aboard<br />its dark.. very dark<br /><br />welcome to Canada eh ..<br />can you swim ?the salamanderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06853337802990122289noreply@blogger.com