Queen Honours Cretien
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hahahah awesome. good ole' Chretien he should run again probably the only liberal that could win.
When you pick Chrétien, someone who won three back to back majorities (and rescued the economy from life support) as the worst PM ever, it only shows wishful thinking on your part (and of course, your bias). I assume you think Harper is the best PM ever.
But surely you would rate Trudeau worse than Chrétien, wouldn’t you? Or are both of them the worst ever? Do you rank all the Liberal PMs as the worst ever and all the conservative PMs as the best ever (with the exception of Mulroney, of course)?
Quite so, Lu. If Chrétien had been the PM when sponsorship scandal blew up, Liberals still would be in power today. Martin was too nice a guy to be the PM. Chrétien would never have appointed the Gomery commission (neither would Harper), he simply would have referred the matter to RCMP.
Without the Gomery inquiry keeping the issues on the front page month after month, the wrongdoers would have been punished and the whole thing would have faded into obscurity. That is how Chrétien or Harper would have handled it.
Chrétien was a mean street fighter (so is Harper, but without the compassion and charisma shown by Chrétien), Martin was a nice guy, and totally unsuitable to be the PM.
All the more kudos to Chretien for a well earned honour.
True, because he would have made the RCMP go after Mulroney in order to divert attention from his crooked friends.
Chretien is a classic old style corrupt politician, and while he did some good, there's no need to dismiss his nasty vindictiveness toward Martin, nor his patronage that cost us untold millions. He makes Mulroney look like an even-handed non-partisan PM.
I visualize Chretien as a top notch politician, who reached his point of incompetence.
Quite so, JLM, Chrétien was a consummate, skilled politician. As to being incompetent, anybody who rescued the economy (which was put on life support by Mulroney), converted 40 billion plus $ deficit into 10 billion $ plus surplus, who fought for minority rights (in his case gay rights) is far from incompetent, in my opinion.
Really? There are more and more such ‘farces’. First there was Carter, then Gore, then Obama, now Chrétien. Could it be that there is nothing wrong with these prizes, they are well deserved, but the problem is with the whiners, the complainers, the sour grapers who are mad because their candidate, their hero didn’t win?
Well, it could be...or maybe there is something wrong with the prizes and they aren't deserved and the only ones that are happy are happy because their hero won.
I wouldn't really know as I have no heroes when it comes to politics.
lol ChRETIeN won the award for his 40 years of self-service. Obama won his for not being Bush. What's to whine about?
Rewards for potential and for screwing up aren't really rewards, are they?
Dead heros are moulded by the imagination of the living. For example, I like Elvis now he's up in Graceland.
Me, too. Mum drove me crazy with that Elvis stuff. Good thing I recovered. lol (from the Elvis stuff
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You assume wrongly that alienation is a conscious feeling. Anyway, all Canadians are subjects of her Majesty. Before being a free subject, one has to be subjected/alienated. That is why we are speaking since Hegel of the barred subject.
http://massthink.wordpress.com/2008/06/13/the-lacanian-subject-according-to-fink-the-barred-s-alienation/
