This is op-ed piece written by Bob Rae about how, because the Canadian economy is also fucked, he'll no longer be the only Canadian politician whose name will forever be associated with deficits and job losses.
It's a very funny article, reminding me again why I can't understand why Michael Ignatieff is the leader of the Liberal Party. On a tangential and completely unfair comparison, we have:
Ignatieff, who writes a smarmy non-apology in NY Times magazine to cover his ass re: Iraq.
Rae, who takes to what is arguably the largest right-of-centre newspaper in Canada to write a humourous take on the fact that our country is going to shit (again) and now someone else's political career will have to suffer for it.
Fair? Balanced? Not in the slightest, but it's a damn funny article.
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"And when the people have had their say, you will get into the back of a car, and nothing will happen."
ReplyDeleteBrilliant. This is why I love Bob Rae. I was talking in the summer to my fully Ontario family about how he should be PM, but they all insisted I simply don't know enough about him and the Rae Days.
Just to be safe, though, NP responded to Rae's article with one of their own, gently reassuring those conservatives out there who are thinking of straying that Rae fucked up, a lot:
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Well, obviously. Because you know that humour is no way to deal with a financial crisis and the looming spectre of lost jobs and a tough time ahead; better to be solemn about how people will have to suck it up and stop whining for a few years.
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