117 Replies to “The First American Prime Minister, Aroused”

  1. pkuster nails it.
    Iggy looks like he is exhorting an audience of earthworms.

  2. Perhaps those seated behind him were somewhat confused or brain-dead. They may be confused by a faux leader who wants the nation to rise up and vote for a Party that Harper has more competently replicated in terms of sustaining sacred Liberal programs, deficit spending and general centre-left policy, resulting in voting for a poor imitation of Jack Layton. Otherwise they are brain-dead because they assume that this pseudo-intellectual poseur is anything different than Jack Layton. In consuming the Liberal Party, Harper has adopted far too much of its baggage.

  3. Waitin for the media comments about how white and old the audience is……if it was a conservative that would absolutely be the comment.
    I am assuming this was an announcement at a seniors home? Did anyone throw away their walker after “the healer” came through?

  4. “four minutes to Wapner, four minutes to Wapner”
    As he stares at the floor.
    It’s like an inspirational speech given by Rainman.
    Majority and we can investigate who has the stolen money from the last time these Adscaming #$%&ers rose up.

  5. I think the “collective wisdom”, if there is such a thing in Canada, has realised that there is only so much a government can do to make life better. We’re seeing that in Obama’s US… borrowing trillions with nothing to show for it. The fact is that we’ve got life pretty good here, and no “big idea” is going to catch on because we’re smarter than that. Whatever gimmick the Liberals come up with is going to have an unwritten price tag attached, and the modern voter knows that.
    Canadians don’t need to “rise up”. Syrians do. Zimbabweans do. Tibetans do.
    I think I figured this election out… it’s a war of attrition between parties with no ideas. Voters have already made up their minds, and we’re likely to get another minority PC gov’t.
    This is good news, because all Harper has to do is say NO to any additional spending. Until he says yes, new cheques don’t go out. I’m fine with that.

  6. Was he hanging out at a old folks home? Good gawd not partisan politics, has he seen slime stream media this past week they are so far up his arse it’s sickening.

  7. I’ve put more GENUINE passion into farting after a Mexican feast than Iggy put into that. In any field of endeavour you can tell when somebody REALLY WANTS it and when they’re just mailing it in.

  8. Canadians have been saying, kind of, “so what?,” because we’ve been too busy drinking our beer and eating our popcorn.

  9. He is completely unsuited to campaigning. He’s just so bad at this stuff. Obama is an actor and he likes campaigning a lot more than presidenting, as people often point out. Soon it will all be over and Iggy can go home to the States. I bet he’ll be relieved.

  10. “The First American Prime Minister, Aroused”
    Heh, heh, heh…
    Disappointed, eh ladies?
    Sorry, but Maggie said that’s all an aroused Liberal can offer…rolled up shirt-sleeves.

  11. wallyj >
    “Ignatieff is doing an end run around democracy…”
    The Libs are the epitome of Orwellian truth-speak, it begins with their moniker “Liberal”.
    Every time I hear Iggys voice I need to make an end run.

  12. Awww … he missed the protests in the ’60s! Rise up???? For what? A stable government and a viable economy. Yeah, well, sit in your MP chair and vote for the fl**g BUDGET and shut up! And if you, the communists and separatists want to take over our country, you will REALLY learn about rising up!

  13. He’s a fart in a windstorm trying to channel Elmer Gantry.
    Just wait until he gets the Adscam boys, Jean and Paul on the trail, they’ll have enough wind to blow themselves right over the cliff.

  14. Good comment from Twitter:
    Emmett Macfarlane:
    Ignatieff’s “Rise Up” speech makes me think: if librarians formed a religion, they just found their Jimmy Swaggart. #elxn41 #cdnpoli

  15. Ignatieff talking about democracy is pure hypocrisy.
    Whipping the vote instead of letting MPs vote for their constituents is not democracy.
    Vote whipping is dictatorial.
    Ignatieff proved that he is a dictator when he whipped MPs to vote the party line.

  16. Joanne(Bly)
    Wherry has been fellating the Liberal party for a number of years now. This is neither new nor surprising.
    Wherry’s commetn is just the sound of him humming then swallowing.

  17. M.Peltier >
    “Ignatieff proved that he is a dictator when he whipped MPs to vote the party line.”
    Well said!

  18. Well…in comes mister dithers and the most corrupt lieberal ever…me thinks the leberals are desperate according to inner polling. Release the inner polling an let Canadians know the truth Iffy.

  19. http://www.songmeanings.net/songs/view/128665/
    Perhaps his choice of song is prophetic:
    Cant see nothing in front of me
    Cant see nothing comin up behind
    Make my way through this darkness
    Cant feel nothing but this chain that binds me
    Lost track of how far I’ve gone
    How far I’ve gone and how far I\’ve climbed
    On my back’s a sixty pound stone
    On my shoulder half mile outta line

  20. Hey…wasn’t there a far left wing 80’s band called Parachute Club that did a song called rise up? First he quotes Mao and then Parachute Club…original

  21. Treason of the Intellectual, aka Liberal Count Ignatieff.
    The natural end result of socialism: Death.
    Liberal Count Ignatieff:
    “let some flowers bloom,”.
    Mao Tse-Tung:
    “Let a hundred flowers bloom,”.
    …-
    “Mao outmurdered Hitler and Stalin combined”
    “The history of dictatorship in the 20th century is, in essence, a history of death — death counted in the millions, death imposed on masses of people by implacable, pitiless governments.
    Every age has its despots, but 20th-century dictators set new standards of killing. Earlier tyrants may in their hearts have been even more murderous, but they lacked the technology that Stalin, Hitler and Mao took for granted. Given this rich opportunity, those three leaders turned their age into what may someday be called (providing human life takes a turn for the better) the Century of Official Death.”
    http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2011/04/16/robert-fulford-mao-outmurdered-hitler-and-stalin-combined/

  22. Ignatief is right. but much too late. Canadians are “rising up”, but from their Trudeaupian slumber. They have been “rising up” since the formation of the Reform Party. Steadily and with each election, Canadians are “rising up” in greater numbers to take back their country from the Utopian crooks of the Liberal Party.

  23. Just when you thought this guy couldn’t get anymore ridiculous. If he gets to represent Canada on the political stage I will rise up and I’ll drink the friggin kool-aid.

  24. Iggy’s sickly fractured smile never fails to remind me that due to his having treaded where angels and wise men wouldn’t go, he now finds himself having to swallow all that imperious shite he has been so liberally tossing around of late.
    As few are buying him, and fewer still his fractured act…he now has the very large gorilla-in-the-room problem of having to confront his failed dream and assuage his torn ego.
    Sorry Iggy…didn’t you know those Liberal bagmen were using you and don’t you now look the perfect FOOL!

  25. There is certain religiosity about his cry.
    Wrong crowd, Ignatieff looks like fish out of the water, can’t seem to assume position of a plebeian, as much as he tries.
    The guy ‘been in the academe for such a long time that he forgot there is a real life going on outside of school buildings.
    Will be interesting to see how many will vote for him.
    He can’t go back to Haavad yet, he is not eligible for the fat pension, has to hang around Canada for something like 2 more years, then it will be good bye.

  26. Maybe the Count is going after the sympathetic pity vote. In all seriousness, I could see some people voting for Iggy from a misguided sense of underdog-favouring fair play if this keeps up.

  27. Cap’n Oblivious & Tirador:
    Yep, Parachute Club was the first thing I thought of as well. And, since the RIAA prevented the Tories from using some music earlier in the campaign, perhaps we should be whispering in their ears as well.

  28. Rise up, rise up…to the fridge to get a beer!
    [deleted. STOP ABUSING YOUR COMMENTING PRIVILEGES. LAST WARNING. – ED]

  29. When they showed this on CTV, they certainly edited it well. They only showed the last part and they cut out the first few creepy minutes of it. Totally biased reporting. What else is new.

  30. And as prediced a couple of weeks ago the Liberals, through their mouthpieces, are getting ready to drop the “A” Bomb
    http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5hwQcK-8jd3nckTUI4drBXwmpueqw?docId=6586713
    Yup, all we need now is Carolyn Beenett on Tv now predicting back alley abortions and saying, which is “Are you Banning abortions or are you lying”
    Watch for it to come up as a “gotcha” on the Sunday talk shows. I predict on Taber’s question period. Every election its the same
    1) Hidden Agenda
    2) Cut Health Care
    3) Ban Abortion
    The nice thing is that the higher the number means a good indication of desperation
    We are at Defcon 2 with the Liberals ad about to move to defCon 3.
    We will know they really have lost it if the run a negative ad against Layton. I suspect the coalition plans will be re written inside of a week, barring a Lib bounce. It will start to look like the Liberal vote will collapse.
    Would the Liberals rather see a Conservative majority or be the junior partner in a coalition with the NDP? The answer to that question will be dictated by how many moles appear and how much sabotage happens to the Liberal campaign.
    Liberal vote on verge of collapse if polls get a little worse.
    Campaigns matter and Jack’s has been great….Once again, they never planned on winning, just keeping tories to a minority. The thought that Jack could surpass them…..probably never occured to them.

  31. When rather cold, unemotional types simulate emotion the results are apt to be either funny or embarrassing. PMSH gets it right – his expressions of enthusiasm don’t traduce what he really is – a man who is ruled by his
    head.

    Posted by: John Lewis at April 16, 2011 11:44 AM
    That’s PERFECT John Lewis. Just perfect.
    A political campaign is a sales job. One thing I learned a few decades back is that when you’re receiving training in proven sales techniques you must reject some or adapt them to your personality or you’ll go hungry.

  32. What federal election is not about our country?
    So little of what is said by a politician is substantive.
    Rise up, and oh, while you are up, how about bringing me a refill of popcorn and another beer?

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