Should Ford Resign?
- Thread starter Goober
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If you felt attacked (by a simple provable observation, you feel guilt). You should probably take some time to think about why that is. Because I think you're a pretty 'just' person.
Exactly! I still cannot fathom why anyone who doesn't live in Toronto would even give a damn. An opinion, yes, that I can understand...but why do they have so much invested in it???
Frankly, i couldn't care less if Ford is a Conservative. Toronto's repuation, and by extension, Canada's has suffered.
I guess. But then I've never understood partisan ideology either.
If he stays, if he goes, I couldn't care less one way or the other. But this entire circus is a sad spectacle, from the press to the chief of police to his own behaviour.
I don't doubt you don't care that he's a conservative. But I'd bet money you're happy he's a conservative... ;-)
That's a bit of a stretch.
More so than Adscam or the Mulroney/Shrieber debacle? Frankly I found both of those at least, if not more, distrubing and embarrassing. Toronto may be a large city but it's still just a city, it's still just municipal politics and small potatoes when it comes to scandals.
The press are acting like goons (have for a while now) and the mayor often behaves like a baboons a*s*s*...honestly I think they deserve each other.
Yeah. It makes no difference to me how this goes one way or another. I dont live there, never have and doubt i ever will. I really dont understand people who say he (or any other controversial figure) are an embarrassment to Canadians. Im not bothered by anything he or any other person does. If I lived in Toronto and voted for him I probably would be embarrassed. If I lived there and didnt vote for him Id feel vindicated. As things are Im neither. What I am is very well entertained.
The opinions of people who would judge Canada by what Rob Ford does don't really matter to me. They can't be too smart to begin with.
I can only tolerate the "entertainment" value in small doses. Sometimes it feels like I've been watching Porky's for weeks on end, the humour gets a little old after a while, lol.
Yes it is. And still a notch or two above small potatoes municipal politics on the scandal meter.
They were for about a week. The public by and large have a very short attention span and memory.
I've never, ever understood the whole 'scandal' thing when it doesn't involve their (politician's) jobs. Why the hell should I care if some guy cheats on his wife? Lot's of guys cheat on their wives, lot's of wives cheat on their husbands. I care if my husband cheats, but other than that very, very specific scenario I don't care who's doing whom. Yet that is, traditionally speaking, the biggest of all the big scandals for politicians. I want to know "are the books balanced? was he using taxpayer dollars?...No, then who cares?"
No, I have a short attention span and memory. The public, by and large, has a really warped sense of priorities.
A big chunk of them either dont have priorities at all or just dont care. The voter turnout in the 2011 election was 49.2%. Yes, individual voters dont tend to sway much one way or another, but there is a lot more than one person always staying home. More than half the voters more or less said "I dont care." In a way theyre getting what they deserve.