A couple of good columns today (that aren’t in our own columnist section, which clearly beats all).
A good one by Calgary Sun news columnist Ian Robinson today.
I think of my vote as a wooden stake
[…] He was an actor named Christopher Lee but to us he was Dracula himself, Vlad Tepes, Son of the Dragon, come to unleash horror. Goodbye sophisticated man of the world who knows how to tell an oyster fork from a salad fork … hello dark, festering evil.
For some reason, watching the Liberal Party of Canada’s recent set of attack ads against Stephen Harper, I thought of Christopher Lee flashing fang.
The Liberals reveal their true selves only when it’s time to feed again upon Canadian voters at election time.
The difference between their attack ads and the ones launched against them—talking about Prime Minister Paul Martin, the Liberal party, the Gomery Commission, and Martin’s dodging of Canadian taxes by registering his shipping company’s vessels under foreign flags—is simple.
The Tory ones are actually part of the public record.
[…]
And another good one in the Edmonton Sun by Paul Stanway.
Liberal fire sale of ethics, decency
t was the week the federal election campaign didn’t just get a little dirty. Courtesy of an increasingly desperate governing party, it wallowed in the mud, taking the conduct of Canadian politics to new and sordid depths.
In Canada!
I’m not making this up.
Paul Martin began the week, in Monday’s leaders debate, by scolding his opponents for negativity and demanding a higher level of political discussion all about ideas and policy.
He said this shortly after approving a batch of television ads that represent an appalling new low in the conduct of politics in this country.
I’m sure most people have by now seen the infamous Liberal attack ad that suggests Stephen Harper has some half-baked plan to impose martial law, with armed troops patrolling the streets of Canadian cities. “Soldiers with guns. In our cities. In Canada!”
The ad was pulled at the last minute, but made it to the federal Grit website and, according to some reports, was aired in French in Quebec.
Yet even more dreadful in its way was the prime minister’s explanation of why he approved the ad in the first place.
“It has nothing to do with soldiers,” he waffled. “It simply says, should you be spreading your military forces all across the country? Or should you be concentrating them in those areas where a disaster happens in Canada?”
Does he think we’re stupid?
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