Good God, does Michael Ignatieff talk slowly.
Or maybe he’s just considering the audience.
Whatever – the thing that has me scratching my head after the last couple of speeches are the references to the environmental “crisis”… “giving Canadians hope” … “bringing equal opportunity”… “helping aboriginals” and the children…. oooh, the hungry children.
Have none of them stopped to consider who has been governing for 12 of the last 13 years?
Update I’ve changed my mind.
I … think … he’s had … a stroke. “Let’s win …some seats … in …. Al——berta,”
BWAAHAAA… CTV just cut away from the convention in the middle of his speech. They’ve gone overtime.
As I said – these are the same people who have been confessing all evening long that they ran the country into the ground – so expecting them to get a few convention speeches wrapped up in time is probably unreasonable.
And going back to Rae – did his “Stephen Harper ordered steak” joke make you wonder if he hadn’t just called the Harper family “vegetables”? The delayed reaction at the convention suggests others were wondering what the hell they’d just heard, too.
Quick Wits – Wildrose in the comments – “Pretty funny watching Ken Dryden bash Conservatives for being too cozy with Americans – at a Convention where the keynote speaker was from the US.”
First of all, Iggy was condescending and showed the worst of his professorial arrogance. Bob Rae at least provided some bizarre “theatre in the round”, and I was actually impressed by the positive approach of Gerard Kennedy. He seemed to be the only candidate who realized why the Liberals were defeated.
Ken Dryden on the other hand played to some ugly instincts in the Liberal crowd. I was offended by his implication that conservatives aren’t “real” Canadians and “don’t like this Canada”. Well it’s true that some proud Canadians like myself don’t want your socialist Canada Kenny, but that doesn’t make us any less Canadian than you.
Iggy reminded me of this:
Here is a little rocker for johnny & a chair for Suzy by the fireplace…
It’s a beautifull day in the neigborhood,a beautifull day in the neighborhood, won’t you, won’t you be my friend.
near the end of his speach i think it became more of:
class. class class SHUTUPPPPPPPP
Second ballot just starting and both ctv and cbc are talking about iggy’s meltdown, and say he must get an increase of at least 5% to stay in the race. Some have even wondered where he will go and if he will release his delegates. Ken D is still a very angry man. Bisson to Rae, Martha to Dion, Volpe to Rae. I thought Iggy was the media darling.
Kennedy’s touching anecdote: We were waiting for the kid to ask “Was that Jesus?” at the end, like in the old Santa’s Anonymous commercial.
But I think it was set in Edmonton, on the banks of the North Saskatchewan river.
In our Edmonton house, we’ve been taken aback at the media fawning over Ignatieff’s speech all last night and this morning. We were laughing ourselves sick watching/listening to it. So terrible, so hilariously terrible.
Steeled myself to watch the leadership(?) speeches last night and afterward could not remember a time in my life that I had ever seen anything so pathetic. It is absolutly mind blowing that this is what Canadians have inherited after so many years of Liberal leadership. The supposed best and brightest of the Liberal mindset stood before the choir in front of the Canadian congregation and exposed the fact that among the bunch they are, for all their academic qualifications, total morons. They still believe that Canada is Ontario and Quebec. They believe that all their visions will make Canada a world leader, they don’t realize that to make a vision a reality it requires a roll up your sleeves and get your hands dirty attitude. — Just on the radio Rae steps aside. It could be very interesting in this country come Monday morning.
I just wanted Michael to request a “giant laaaser beam”.
Sounds like Dr. Evil.