In an interesting article in today's Globe & Mail, Martin gives us a very pithy, very apt, and very useable definition of the politics practised by our current prime minister: brutish.
"In Jean Chrétien, he was marketing a populist; in Michael Ignatieff, someone who was to the manor born and who must stake out that higher ground as opposed to being dragged into the pit of tactical games and brute politics that Stephen Harper relishes."
Let us all hope that Harper's style of politicking leads to his foray into the prime minister's office as being one that is nasty, brutish and short.
Especially short.
Thursday, October 29, 2009
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3 comments:
Harper has dropped the partisan process to a new low. he would attack his mother if she stood in his way.
So very true Terry1. Unfortunately, the majority of Canadians don't pay much attention to politics. They get their news from Canwest or the Sun or the nightly 10 second soundbytes. It's all about advertising $$$$.
Penny
Am I missing something here? I thought it was Cretien that was the brute...does no one remember the way he grabbed a protester by the throat and threw him to the ground...ciao
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