Posted 6 years, 2 months ago at 08:09. 0 comments
I sat down to try to watch to the Leadership Debate tonight. Rarely have I been more disillusioned.
Paul Martin, you, sir, are an asshole. There were 4 men involved in the leadership debate tonight. You paid attention to exactly one of them. How about showing a little common courtesy towards the NDP and Bloc, regardless of how credible a threat your senior staff has told you they might be?
I have to say that, even though I’m pretty much against everything his party stands for, I have oodles more respect for Gilles Duceppe than any of the other leaders. At least Gilles is unapologetic about representing the minority interests of Quebec and will actually take a stand in that regard.
However, given that the Bloc Québécois does only represent one province out of ten in this country, what the hell are they doing in the national leadership debate anyway? Why allow the Bloc to participate and not someone like, say, the Green Party?
I’ll tell you why: because once they get on stage, the party leaders — the people who are vying to run our country — act very much like two-year olds, and no one wants to have to chaperone yet another toddler. I listened to part of the French language Leadership Debate from the night before, and with all 4 leaders speaking at once, along with simultaneous translation of all 4 leaders, you couldn’t tell what any of the 8 individual speakers were saying. The English language debate proved no different.
In most polite societies, if you ask someone a question, it’s considered good etiquette to actually let them respond. I guess that’s true, unless you already know what they’re going to say: absolutely nothing. If they’re all going to talk at the same time anyway about the same things (nothing), you would think they could at least get together before the debate, figure out who had the best baritone, and then do a little barbershop number or something. It might even improve the ratings.
But I doubt it would make it any easier to figure out who won.
(Here’s a hint: if you can’t figure out who won, then you all lost. Time to mow the lawn in your wife’s Sunday Best)
Well, I suppose it could be worse.
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Posted 6 years, 2 months ago at 08:09. 0 comments
I sat down to try to watch to the Leadership Debate tonight. Rarely have I been more disillusioned.
Paul Martin, you, sir, are an asshole. There were 4 men involved in the leadership debate tonight. You paid attention to exactly one of them. How about showing a little common courtesy towards the NDP and Bloc, regardless of how credible a threat your senior staff has told you they might be?
I have to say that, even though I’m pretty much against everything his party stands for, I have oodles more respect for Gilles Duceppe than any of the other leaders. At least Gilles is unapologetic about representing the minority interests of Quebec and will actually take a stand in that regard.
However, given that the Bloc Québécois does only represent one province out of ten in this country, what the hell are they doing in the national leadership debate anyway? Why allow the Bloc to participate and not someone like, say, the Green Party?
I’ll tell you why: because once they get on stage, the party leaders — the people who are vying to run our country — act very much like two-year olds, and no one wants to have to chaperone yet another toddler. I listened to part of the French language Leadership Debate from the night before, and with all 4 leaders speaking at once, along with simultaneous translation of all 4 leaders, you couldn’t tell what any of the 8 individual speakers were saying. The English language debate proved no different.
In most polite societies, if you ask someone a question, it’s considered good etiquette to actually let them respond. I guess that’s true, unless you already know what they’re going to say: absolutely nothing. If they’re all going to talk at the same time anyway about the same things (nothing), you would think they could at least get together before the debate, figure out who had the best baritone, and then do a little barbershop number or something. It might even improve the ratings.
But I doubt it would make it any easier to figure out who won.
(Here’s a hint: if you can’t figure out who won, then you all lost. Time to mow the lawn in your wife’s Sunday Best)
Well, I suppose it could be worse.
Current Tunes: GrooveSalad, courtesy of somafm | Filed under General |
