January 30, 2009 @ 08:15
Fred...what I would love to see from you and I think it is deserving in this case....is an acknowledgement of Ignatieff as a Rational Man. Give credit where it is due. He did the right thing.
Stu
Hey Stu, glad you asked because I've been thinking about this since Ignatieff became leader of the Liberals.
This may come as a shock to a lot of you, but I've made this comment many times before, I'm not partisan. I don't care what the party is if their policies make sense.
Problem is, there was so much corruption and deceit through the Chretien years I was literally pushed towards the Conservatives because any "rational man" could never give himself to the NDP.
So disenchanted with the Liberals I supported the Conservatives and became even more committed to this party by the unfounded and often silly criticism of Stephen Harper.
He was hated mostly because he was Conservative and that never sat well with me.
Then along came Stephane Dion and there was absolutely no reason for me to change my position. This odd little man with his goofy ideas served to do nothing but reinforce by support of Stephen Harper who, crazy as it seems, given his mandate, continued to act in the best interests of the country.
Now the landscape has changed a bit.
I've got to admit that what I've seen of Michael Ignatieff so far has impressed me.
In the wake of the coalition crap he came along and brought some sense to it all. He took the pulse of Canadians and put an end to it. He considered the budget and declared it reasonable, but more than anything else, he realized that another election at this time was not in the best interest of the country.
Unlike Jack Layton and Gilles Duceppe he has put Canada first.
I'm not naive, I realize part of Ignatieff's plan is to let the Conservatives flap in the wind and take the heat for the economy which will only strengthen the Liberal position going into the next election, but that's OK.
That's politics. It's rational above board politics, something we didn't get from Chretien and something we'd definately never get from Layton.
Nope, I can't deny it, So far so good with this Ignatieff guy.
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