I’m not actually sure if Don Martin knows what prescient means. It means having foresight. It’s normally seen as a good thing. Someone who is prescient is someone who knew before the rest of us.
So today in his column, while he portrays Prime Minister Harper’s aid Ian Brodie as being a dumbass villain (don’t worry, he called him a “brilliant sidekick” first), the top Chretien Liberal aid was “prescient” in calling President Bush a “moron” back in ‘02.
…the spokesman for former Prime Minister Jean Chrétien who, in 2002, was overheard saying “what a moron” to describe President George W. Bush.
Francie Ducros may have been prescient, as it turns out…
But at least she was “dismissed” by the good Liberal, unlike Ian Brodie, Harper’s aid (or at least he hasn’t been dismissed so far, and it’s been a whopping 13 hours since this broke). Martin informs us:
The trouble is that, except for her dismissal, it’s eerily similar to the Ian Brodie scenario.
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Oh sorry, Mr. Martin, but there’s just one other difference: Ducros’ “slip” was a nasty-ass lie and an insanely stupid remark. Brodie’s verbal diarrhea, methinks, wasn’t, and actually served a higher purpose: it was a valuable advisory to not only Canadian voters, but Americans too, with regard to how liberal politicians think of their potential voters—which is manifestly as suckers and pawns to be trifled with. (P.S.—Also see article “PM refuses to fire aide over ‘moron’ remark”)
Martin then goes on to formulate that because Obama has now (finally!—my word) been outed as an alleged double-talking BSer as a result of this leak, then if he is elected president, he will have to renegotiate the biggest trade deal ever created in the history of the world (NAFTA), simply to prove this young fella Ian Brodie of Canada wrong.
The long-term problem for Canada is that Sen. Obama, if elected president, must prove that it was a lie by giving the free trade deal a rewrite.
A brilliant strategy for Obama, sir! I’m so sure he’ll follow it.
But Martin’s comment does serve a purpose: This is not an example of “prescience”. This is utter stupidity. Knee-jerk, reactionary, alarmist, nonsense, from someone who is over-thinking the issue.
Obama, for those of you who haven’t read any of the 8,700 glowing stories which have appeared daily in the National Post for the past six months, is the one who has declared, without even a smirk on his face, that he will engage in friendly conversations, and come to friendly understandings, and make friends with, and create “unity” with, evil leaders of the world’s most infamous terrorist-supporting rogue nations, to cause them to love America again (like they used to?) because his nation being “loved” by terrorists is so damn important (and possible!) to Obama and all liberals. I guess this is the “hope” and “aspiration” that Obama speaks of.
And yet he will have to undermine the world’s biggest economy—his nation’s—and that of two allies, and end or re-write the world’s biggest .jpg "Francoise_Ducros")
trade agreement in history with its best trading partner and friend, and essentially destroy our relationship and possibly cause an economic meltdown, because of some dumbass leak of a dumbass memo. Alrighty then.
The logic of the left is astounding.
If the erstwhile disgraced “Francie” Ducros and her moronic statement of international consequence is any indication of the future for Obama, Martin simply couldn’t be more wrong. Francoise Ducros, as she is more officially known, was appointed to another post. She serves as the current Director General of the Canadian International Development Agency.
Someone’s a moron—but it ain’t George Bush.
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