From the office of the Honourable Live Shot Layton;
Over the past two weeks we have put our country’s greatness on the world stage and we met and exceeded our own expectations.
The unparalleled bravery of a young figure skater and the inspiration that lead a freestyle skier to Canada’s first gold on home soil are just two of the lasting memories that will come from these games. But their legacy will likely be even greater. Far from the glamour and lights of the Olympics, young Canadians now have a new inspiration to lead active, healthier lives.
And now, for the rest of the story...
From the comments - "How fitting it is that Jack Layton enjoyed the game at Wayne Gretzky's restaurant while Prime Minister Harper enjoyed the game with Wayne Gretzky."
Outed by a card carrying Liberal...Sweet!...
Live Shot Layton's press releases are as important as Lizzy May's. In other words, a waste of dead trees, oxygen or bits/bytes, depending on the media used.
The NDP's Own the Podium.
"...two-year-old anti-poverty group (...) sent representatives to Tokyo..."
One has to wonder where said "anti-poverty group" found the money to send representatives to Tokyo.
Is it insensitive of me to suppose that it wasn't collected from the demographic that they claim to support?
Get over it! It is time to get over this non-story.
Layton's opposition to the Toronto Olympic bid was one of the only smart things I've ever seen that guy do. He probably did it for typically f-ed up Lefty reasons rather than straight common sense and responsible governance, but oppose it he did and that was good.
Just goes to show that even a blind pig finds the odd acorn.
How fitting it is that Jack Layton enjoyed the game at Wayne Gretzky's restaurant while Prime Minister Harper enjoyed the game with Wayne Gretzky.
Love the descriptor Live Shot Layton. Jack elbowing is a penalty, 4 more years in the penalty box.
"the inspiration that lead a freestyle skier"
This is what happens when you trust GrammarCheck. The past tense of lead is led.
Jack Layton is a hypocrite? In other news, water is wet and the sky is blue.
hypocrisy and showmanship combined!!
come on T, just your kind of story.
the man was on a vendetta against the Toronto Olympics and now fakes an embrace to the games in a very public recorded hand up to a minority.
Can we come up with some kind of prize for Syd B., who deserves a Best Comment of the Month Award? I jealous, dude. That was awesome!
Jacques? Two minute for ya lookin so good! He leave a little on da side. Da wife? She like it!
Looks like Layton is very selective in the "lasting memories" department.
isn't a podium kinda, like, hierarchical?
Layton truly is pathetic.
Non story T? Yeah..... Kinda like prorogation.
Anybody notice the video of CBCs darling Snuffalupagus interviewing Laytoon?
Hmmmm. Birds of a feather...
TalibanJack is a calculating media whore.
Why else would he do what he did, live and in front of a whole nation?
Question Period in the House should be full of torpedoes which should sink this man's political career. He should be shamed right out of the country!
I had to laugh when Jack pulled that young woman's arm down because it blocked the camera's view of HIM!
And that's what JL's all about, HIM! Not "little people", the "poor", "working class Canadians", or any of the other groups of the perpetually downtrodden he claims to represent.
There have been NDP governments in several Provinces,never Federally,thank God, and in each Province,the numbers of "poor and downtrodden" seem to increase despite their vaunted war on poverty, and all their activism.
I suppose the main reason is because whenever the NDP forms government,they treat business like the Enemy, and watch them shut down and leave the Province, as they did here in BC all during the NDP reign.
Jack Layton has always personified the term "political whore",as he stands for nothing, mouths vague generalities, and sucks up to anyone and anything that might promote HIM.
I won't remember you pretending to cheer for our hockey team, Mr.Kayton, but I sure as hell will remember you calling our troops war criminals.
dmorris
ya need soldiers to fight poverty, thusly the need to increase the poverty numbers
git with the program:-)))
Because of Jack Layton's recently announced medical situation, I have been searching for something good to say about the man.
And I've come up with something ... at least he is not a Liberal.
"I have been searching for something good to say about the man."
We wouldn't wish Layton's medical situation on anyone. Therefore he deserves some sympathy.
However, he remains nothing more than a self-centred, shallow, insufferably phony excuse for a human being. Not being a Liberal is probably his one and only redeeming feature. That being said, being a New Democrat is not a whole hell of a lot more admirable.
Wacko Jacko Bin Layton...hypocrite, media whore, leader of the Not Democratic Party...shocking that anyone would vote for this self serving, insufferable ass turd.
It would have been far more fitting if Live Shot Layton rubbed elbows with the down trodden and washed dishes in the kitchen while everyone else celebrated and had fun.
I thought Jack Layton and Olivia Chow looked great on TV from the bar with other average patrons.
Gretzky in the stands with Harper? I've been told he was the only public figure who would be seen with him. Even BC Premier Gordon M. Campbell kept his distance. And I have been wondering why Gretzky agreed to be used as a photo-op prop by the Tories, and will those pics appear in Tory advert material in the next election?
" I have been wondering why Gretzky agreed to be used as a photo-op prop by the Tories..." not the Tories dipwad but the leader of the host country, Canada. He didn't give out personalized golf balls you know.
David: "I've been told ... "
I don't know about the rest of the folks around here, but that sure impresses the hell outta me.
I don't know, but I been told, that a big-legged woman ain't got no soul.
I,m confused? Is this a Jack Layton attempt at a come back?
Love this chipper like comment thrown Layton's way.
It must of hurt.
"How fitting it is that Jack Layton enjoyed the game at Wayne Gretzky's restaurant while Prime Minister Harper enjoyed the game with Wayne Gretzky."
Ouch!!!
Maybe Gretzky is going to trow his hat into the fray and he sure doesn't need his legendary on-ice vision to see the winners and losers of the sport called politics.It's hard to believe that anyone could could be so gullible as to buy into the Jack and Olivia average Canadian charade.
I have the same feelings for Jack Laytoon that I have for the neighbourhood mutt that left turds in my yard all winter.
I tell ya...Jack-off's upbringing in Hudson, Quebec really showed Sunday evening...no doubt he sang the national anthem in French because it would be the only version he knows from the fatherland, the sawed off little twerp.
OMMAG
I just had a vision of Jack taking a crap in your yard,thanks for that.
Jack Layton's prostate cancer is a non-event in my books. All men if they live past 60 will get prostate cancer. My dad did at age 75, but was told he would probably die of something else. Guess what, he did die of something else.
You-Hoo,Mr DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up!
Be easy on poor Jock(strap) Layton. He was only trying to show us what an athletic supporter he is.