In his first Conservative campaign ad…
“I’m a Democrat… a democratic politician right to the bottom of my feet and the top of my toes”.
In his first Conservative campaign ad…
“I’m a Democrat… a democratic politician right to the bottom of my feet and the top of my toes”.
Ignatieff has employed the same tactics the Soviets did- denial and deflection. He’s awfully good at it. His motives are so transparent. Hopefully, this will be the last we hear from him.
Shoe-bin came across as more pissed off than hot…oh wait…same difference.
Hey , Hey , maybe it’s time for a Juxtaposed video of the Dog who can’t lie with The Count who can’t answer.
Same smile.
@00:53 …on the abstract constitutional principal, ask the Governor General…
I wonder what Iggy means by that.
I think the typical debates are a distraction. They are unruly and it is hard to get any real impressions of the candidates. I suggest a “Saddleback-type debate as held in the States between McCain and Obama. These were back-to-back one-on-one interviews. Neither candidate got to hear the responses given by the other. As I watched them it was clear to me that McCain was a far superior candidate to the feckless Obama. The advantage is that a viewer can focus on one candidate and hear what he has to say without being interrupted and without the usual political posturing.
Iggy, please do continue to give the kind of non-answer you have been giving. Having the word ‘coalition’ used 20 or 30 times in every interview along with your smiling, evasive leer will convince Canadians that a coalition is a go.
So much for the red door; what’s behind the green door?
As they asked on the old Nixon poster: “Would YOU buy a used car from this man?”
I couldn’t stomach the whole thing, so bailed early.
Once that smarmy self satisfed grimace spread across his face I had my answer. The real telling thing is MI’s complacency. The man who at onetime seemed to be in constant turmoil with his consience has obviously shed all scrupples.
What we are now seeing is what we can expect and will get
Pure unmittigated slime.
Mr Ignatief certainly is a good tapdancer. Myself, the question was a yes or no and we the voters deserved a yes or no answer.
Where were Bob Rae and Ujjal Dosanjh? The Count had better watch his back.
Bring on a coalition of the NDP, Bloc and Liberals and have a socially responsible government for a refreshing change; rather than the current so called government which is only concerned about reducing corporate taxes so the fat cats can get fatter and spending millions on draconian justice measures that will do nothing to serve the public or reduce crime. Mere window dressing from the constant conservative mantra of “get tough on crime”; what hogwash. Time to show Harpo and the other CRAPers (conservative reform alliance party)the door.
If MI thinks that his non-answer is believable then he might as well go on camera and tell voters that he thinks they are stupid. Insulting the intelligence of millions of Canadians by “Let me clear” and “I cannot be clearer” is a serious lapse in judgment. Who’s advising this guy?
This is not a court of law so claiming innocence via a smart-ass attempts with legalese language technicalities isn’t good enough.
I can imagine the MSM decrying Harper for his lack of a slime mitigation strategy in 3..2..
Interesting what comes out of the woodwork in these cicumstances.
BTW…don’t count on that corny comment about the top of the toes getting any air time. Subsequent CTV sound bites completely ignored it. In fact CTV has dredged up a few pol-sci profs from the usual lefty universities explaining to us dumb canucks that a coalition is legal, and works fine in many other countries.
The choice is clear. A Conservative majority or rule by The Coalition of Losers.
Looks like they found Iggy’s red door!! http://www.stephentaylor.ca/2011/03/theres-a-red-door/ #Coalitionmonkey
Damn!
Those reporters smelled blood in the water.
Don’t think I’ve ever seen them go after a politician the way they did Mr. Ignatieff.
Don’t think Stephen Harper’s been grilled like that.
Correct me if I’m wrong but that was a sight to behold.
CPC majority?
*crosses fingers*
MT
Continually dodging the question means yes to me. Smarmy bastard just can’t say it.
Iggy just gave the CPC the next TV commercial(s)…or three…. on
a platter.
I cannot be clearer in all this fog I’m emitting.
More than any other election in my lifetime, this one is an ideological contest. Conservatives believe the best social program is a growing economy, the opposition does not. Everything else is window dressing.
Ignatieff sports the phoniest phony grin I’ve ever seen on a politician’s mug,and I lived through many elections with Bill VanDerZalm!
So, he made it clear at the end,if you DON’T want more of this, VOTE CONSERVATIVE, and give Stephen Harper the majority he deserves.
For a consumate modern politician, such as those Loser Coalition leaders, it should be easy to say NO to a coalition, although they still have a formal coalition.
Look at Australia where the current PM said “Definately NO carbon tax” before the election and then turn around after the election and enforce a carbon tax to keep her tenuous hold on power with a coalition with the greens.
Or look at the UK, where the not-conservative party formed a coalition government with the far left “liberal-democrat” party, forced to to attain the reigns and whips of government by actually losing the election.
These schmucks take US for schmucks. Just lie, they think, there’s nothing they can do against our PR machines.
Wow – I am actually impressed with the reporters – they did not let the Igster slide. They must stay on this until the Liberals come with a Yes or No!
Hey, imagine if, in the “Leaders’ debates’ Stephen Harper asked, for each question, “Who is speaking for the coalition?” When met with the denials of a coalition, he hold up a copy of their coalition’s agreement and say “Oh yes there is”
“It can’t be clearer than that”
Yes it can – “Yes or no” would be much clearer. why would anyone vote for a knob that dosen’t understand the difference between a simple yes or no verses muddy retoric?
The “boss’s” you mention Iggy, see you as stupid and contemptable. Not a good job position to be in.
Catherine, as I’ve just pointed out in a couple of posts, if the Liberals were smart, they would just outright, poker-face lie and say NO to a coalition. After the election, they can reveal the truth and we cannot do anything about it.
TJ @606, he was not lieing through his teeth, he was obfuscating and avoiding. Had he lied through his teeth, he would have said “NO WAY will we support a coalition government”.
“…from the bottom of my feet to the top of my toes.”
Ok.
Now how about the other 98% of him?
Iffy, dirtbag at large!
He’s a POS, and refuses to answer the coalition question. He has cooked his goose!
Robert,
Obfuscating to that extent = lying
At least that’s what I teach my kids.
PET Cemetery Report.
Our motto:
Better “fled” than dead*.
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“The pack took up the howl. “Answer the question!” “You haven’t answered the question!” At which Ignatieff — well, the only word is fled.”
“Iggy’s coalition problem”
http://www2.macleans.ca/2011/03/25/iggys-coalition-problem/
*H/T IgNoble Prize Winner: Liberal Lethter Pearthon.
Lester Pearson 16.21. Charles Péguy 16.22. Vladimir Peniakoff 16.23 … Better red than dead. Slogan of nuclear disarmament campaigners, late 1950s
http://www.gregshomepages.com/ ftp/ books/ PDF%20%20Books/ Oxford%20Dictionary%20Of%20Modern%20Quotations%20Ebook%20TXT.txt
re: debates
Harper should ask for 1-on-1 debates with Iggy and Layton for all of Canada, and maybe with Duceppe in Quebec. May doesn’t hold a single seat, so she doesn’t get a chair. The last election’s debate – with four people shouting at Harper in the so-called “debate”, where the moderator failed to moderate, was a joke. Harper should demand a fairer set-up.
Agreed – Elizabeth May doesn’t belong on the national stage any more than the levitating guy from the natural law party does.
More frightening than any particular beliefs or policies is an utter lack of any sense of a need to test those beliefs and policies against hard evidence. Mistakes can be corrected by those who pay attention to facts but dogmatism will not be corrected by those who are wedded to a vision.
Thomas Sowell
He almost laughed there.
He almost laughed there.
Count Lustre B. Ignatieff.
Has Count Iggy “lost his lustre”?
Lustre is safely tucked into the PET Cemetery, Iggy, between Big Bertha Wilson and Tommy Douglas.
>>> “*Michael Ignatieff was once hailed in Liberal circles as the second coming of Pierre Trudeau.”
‘Nough said.
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“*Ignatieff: Has he lost his lustre?”
http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Ignatieff+lost+lustre/4504351/story.html
Iffy toes the line.
Does that mean that Liberals are primarily pedestrian.
Well, if the shoes fits.
There’s a heel joke in there somewhere.
The choices are simple: Gun registry or not, high taxes or not, coalition or not. Hopefully Harper will get a majority.
Ignatieff is not clear at all.
Dion 2.0 is first out of the gate! This is going to be a great race!
If he tried this gonzo act in a debate, he’s toast. And boy, does he ever have a fake smile.
Abe Froman writes: “…the Bloc Quebecois is not a Canadian party is a Quebec party … why oh why are they allowed to sit in the federal parliament?”
Because Canadian parliamentary government follows the principles of British parliamentary democracy, which has allowed and continued to allow Irish, Welsh, and Scots Nationalists to sit in their House of Commons. In short, the Bloc members are there because they got more votes than any of the other candidates.
The best way to address this problem is to organize better and work harder in Quebec (and get rid of taxpayer funding of political parties).
I am not interested in how Iggy answers the question on the coalition because we know his party and he are prepared to form a coalition.
The Liberals will lie to try and win the election – don’t we all remember Chretien and his promise “to axe the tax” How many times do Liberals think they can lie to Canadians and get away with it?
Kate:
Is there going to be a contest to name this election?
I’ll suggest this one:
The Seinfield Election of 2011
or
Why is George Kostanza wearing the Iggy suit? Or is he?
How’s hiring a harvard prof as boss man working out for our friends and neighbors to the south?
Their President has managed to piss off his core base (a folk not unlike our NDP and Green) and stimulated the big squishy middle to assemble peacefully as citizens expressing their belief that they are taxed enough already.
And now Jack, and Gilles, and Michael, each need to be handed a bill for $100 million dollars (on top of the $40 mil outstanding to M. Ignatieffs party), this being the cost of their games. What will happen is the usual suspects will be handed the bill; $300 million divided by 15 million actual taxpayers equals $20 for each working stiff in this Confederation. Twenty bucks to raise our voice in the only path open, the voting booth.
If Mr. Harper does not get a majority, then this Dominions Derangement is complete.
Just my 2 cents
That smile looks like it stepped out of a 40’s era Bela Lagosi movie; guard your necks.
The Macleans article is most interesting…..
Bottom line, when your fanbase (Macleans, CBC, Star, Mop & Pail), is in disbelief over your non-answer, the party is over before it started.
As said above, Count Iffy just made anpther, classic CPC advert.
Wonder is he will have a Skelly moment tomorrow, asking for a Mulligan?
Ignatieff does a face plant crossing the starting line. Not an auspicious start.
Dana Arnason @ 9:40
“If Mr. Harper does not get a majority, then this Dominions Derangement is complete.”
As the kids say, ‘quoted for truth’.