The First American Prime Minister That Might Have Been

Now is the time at SDA when we told you so!
Michael Ignatieff, May 2nd…

“We have to be big enough, courageous enough, united enough as a party to look at ourselves in the mirror” and learn the lessons of what the Canadian people told them with the election results, he said.
He also said he would be around to study those lessons.
“I will serve as long as the party wants to ask me to serve and not a day longer,” Ignatieff said. “I’m willing to do that work of renewal, reform and growth.”

Michael Ignatieff, May 3rd…

“Sorry – just visiting!”

113 Replies to “The First American Prime Minister That Might Have Been”

@Robert W. 4:36
Whoops, thought it was audio. The Google Translation of the page is rough, but the gist is what has been largely reported in the media to date. Nothing new at all in there.

I love the smell of schadenfreude in spring:)

SoM, merci beaucoup!
Speaking of translation, perhaps you or someone else will be able to “decipher” the hate filled screed of Heather Mallick in today’s Guardian.
I’m waiting for tonight’s Reader Tips before posting it.

The media articles are hilarious today, could be my mood however.
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/time-centre-left-merger-says-harvard-153850016.html
Harvard appears to be sniffing around to be accepted by the dippers now.
Even have Axworthy’s bemoaning the liberal loss and solid Grit riding’s going Tory. The money quote is at the bottom:
“There’s an old saying, lie down and cry a while — and then we can arise to fight again.”
Really?
I’ve never heard of this, ever.
All I hear is a liberal saying that its an old saying, still making it up as they go … away.
Anyone else ever hear of this old saying?

it appears to be from a scottish poem called “the Thistle and the Rose”
‘ “ Fight on, my men,’”Sir Andrew says,
“ A little I’m hurt, but yet not slain,
I’ll but lie down and bleed awhile,
And then I’ll rise to fight again.
‘“ Fight on, my men,” Sir Andrew says,
“ And never flinch before the foe,
And stand fast by St. Andrew’s cross
Until you hear my whistle blow.” ’
the stanza immediately following that quote is far more appropriate to the count though…maybe he should have read the whole poem instead of having some grad student look a deep sounding quote up for him…typical..they stop looking as soon as they find what they think they want and miss the important parts
…They never heard his whistle blow. Gallant Sir
Andrew had fought his last fight, and lay dead upon the
deck…

Indiana….or anyone else 😉 remind your college aged acquaintances of this ancient wisdom from yet another great philosopher that never attended Harvard or any other modern ‘university’ and who, interestingly enough, has been called the father of political realism and is a must read at military colleges…which explains why the moonbats have never heard of it and why I keep it in my quotes file.
THE NATION THAT MAKES A GREAT DISTINCTION BETWEEN ITS SCHOLARS AND ITS WARRIORS WILL HAVE ITS THINKING DONE BY COWARDS AND ITS FIGHTING DONE BY FOOLS. -THUCYDIDES

Jema 54 @ 6:35, amen to that.
Bemused, I appreciate the words you bring to this forum.
I am not sure who said the following or where it came from, but somewhere I once heard that generals and engineers build countries, lawyers and politicians destroy them.

I know if Michael Ignatieff went back to teaching, I would be pulling my kid from that classroom.

I’ve heard similar but when I googled it I found this that I much prefer since it’s so much more accurate…even if it seems to be from a fictional piece
“if the creator had any purpose, it was to bring into harmony the human family. He most definitely charged the legal family with the responsibility. Engineers can build cities and generals can destroy them, but only a lawyer can create the order necessary for them to complete their task.”
to which I’d add… “there exists no engineering marvel or militarily precise operation that a good lawyer can’t make unrecognizeable and unworkable”

I think “lay down with dogs and arise with fleas” is a more-apt saying.

shorter too

Campaign video of the “count” attempt at flipping burgers, shows what his future course of study should include.
That way he’ll be able to relate to “the common man”.