Blue Like You

Heh. Harper was exactly right. She supports Dion and we don’t need two Liberal voices there. I’m sure the Liberals supported her inclusion, for obvious reasons.

Now watch her freak out.

Here’s a gem of logic from Lizzy:

The prime minister says May will ultimately endorse the Liberals.

Uh-huh.. Pull-eeze.

Jad, yeah. I still think they should consider having three debates. One English, one French and one for pure entertainment.

So who gets the CAW leather jacket this time? Jack or Stephane? That’s the kiss of death, don’t you know!

She sure doesn’t represent me!

On MDL now, Lizzy says she’s continuing with her lawsuit and she will be in the debates!

Let May and Dion debate. Didn’t she endore Casey, as being green, sends e-mail to liberal with support. I think what PMSH was talking about is about a week before the election she will pull all her candidates and suggest their supporters vote liberal. She gets way too much air time. Dion just wants her in the debates to translate for him. Her saying she has a green member is crazy. Maybe Garth will become a greenie.
Has Dion come out yet to say he will impletment the Kelona Accord and a lot of other big spending ideas. Where is the money coming from, the contingency fund from the carbon tax. If that tax was to be revenue neutral, why is there 1 billion left to play with, other than send to China and Mo for carbon credits.
As you watch Dion fly around in his dirty plane, remember that is not ghg he is emitting, as he paid someone for the privilege of polluting. Just like Kyoto will do.

Good for Jennifer Wight. It proves that the Liberal can bully her no more. Although I’d worry about those rubber cheques.

Interesting how quickly this happened after the mixups of yesterday.

Any idea of how much the Liberals are on the hook for?

Oh boy. Steve Janke’s onto it!

Steve’s summary of the Green Shift decision is really good. Interesting that the link in the disclaimer on the Liberal site that has been up for months is now removed.

I’m pretty confident that the “lost in translation” exercise yesterday sped things up.

If I were a Liberal supporter and had given money to them I’d be really, really pissed because what should have been used to help a campaign will be to pay for the stupidity and stubborness of whoever it was who made the decision to continue with the GreenShift and trivialize Jennifer Wright and her company.

Dion’s hearing problem. I think in raising this now it gets the media and his opponents off his case for his poor grasp of the English language.

It also might suggest to everybody that to talk about Dion’s poor grasp of English equates to making fun of a personal affliction of which he has no control.

Then there’s the sympathy vote.

On a different topic, I watched MDL tonight and I remembered why I detest Gerard Kennedy. Even with his grasp of English he’s a horrible speaker and he talks over people. Why isn’t the Libeal party mad at him seeing as though when Dion won the leadership Kennedy was credited with the coup? I hope Kennedy loses!

So if Dion has a hearing problem would he not have trouble hearing questions in English OR French?

That’s what I was thinking.

The whole thing smacks of desperation.

May, you’ve made some pretty compelling arguments.

I raised the following point over at Stephen Taylor’s:
What I found strange, though, is Dion saying that “His understanding of English, he says, is better than his “delivery.”

Umm, if he has a hearing problem, how can he claim his “understanding” (aural i.e hearing) is better than his “delivery” (oral i.e. speaking)? A bit contradictory, n’est-ce pas?

” … one of the three parties against her participation threatened to withdraw completely from the debate …”

It could be just unfounded rumours.

What IS strange, though, is the fact that the English debate is taking place on Oct. 2, the same night as the American VP candidates’ debates.
That means that a large part of the English audience will perhaps tune into the American debate rather than the Canadian one.

Elizabeth May is painful to watch, she’s too emotional and screechy. It really annoys me when someone doesn’t get what they want, then say it’s a blow to women. It’s not a blow to me at all it’s just the way it goes. I resent being used as a political tool by people who fail and then try to lay guilt trips.

You don’t hear men say ‘Oh, I didn’t get that, so it’s an insult to all men and masculinism’ do you? It’s ridiculous.

I think they should have a debate with the Greens, the CHP and the rest of the fringe parties who suck votes at election time. Put them all on together, let them debate each other on the ‘issues’.

I don’t know why the Greens would be aligning with the Liberals anyway, since the Greens are a right-wing party but maybe they want to keep that secret from the voters a little longer.

Wow! Good sleuthing, Gabby! Way to go.

“Wow! Good sleuthing, Gabby! Way to go.”

Thanks, Joanne, but I can’t really take the credit. I got there by following links from the BT, to the blog Freedom is My Nationality, where commenter Saskboy linked to an article on his site, which linked to the CTV article.
blush* I was just too lazy/tired to backtrack and list all the links yesterday *blush

And in my haste I failed to mention the reason for posting that information: to dispel the accusations levelled at Mr. Harper, even by CTV’s Graham Richardson, that the leader threatening to pull out of the debates was the PM.

…to dispel the accusations levelled at Mr. Harper, even by CTV’s Graham Richardson, that the leader threatening to pull out of the debates was the PM.

Right. CTV sure had me fooled. Thanks again for setting the record straight.

I suffer from hearing loss as a result of a noisy work enviroment and years of playing in a band standing in front of my amplifier.

But my hearing loss is different than Dion’s in that I have trouble hearing all languages, not just english. It also has no effect on my speaking and ability to put coherent sentences together.

Perhaps we should come up with a name for Dion’s apparent selective hearing problem. I’ll start.

English LiberInteruptis- a hearing problem that affects ones ability to hear and speak(properly) the english language. Scientists are at a loss to exolain why those afflicted can still hear and speak french.

As for the Red/Green coalition,check out Cherniak’s blog this am…he has a campaign ad for Lib MP Wilfert,with a CLEAR endorsement from none other than Lizzie May! The only comment up so far,says,that Jason has just proved PMSH’s point! Wonder how long that will stay up?

Gabby,
Thanks for the sleuthing.
You guys are good.
Lets hope that the media ’sleuths’ who blamed Harper will correct themselves. Refusing to participate in the debate if May is present is way beyond childish.
NeilD

Just to illustrate the subtle, yet powerful, effect the media can have:
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20080907/election2008_dion_080909/20080909?s_name=election2008
Liberal website to portray Dion’s rugged side
Updated Tue. Sep. 9 2008 10:13 AM ET
CTV.ca News Staff

I seldom comment on the CTV site, but this am an article caught my attention, so I quoted from the article that spoke of “the *normally* private Harper” to underscore my point.
When I returned to the site to see if my comment had been accepted, the article had changed, and of course the “normally private Harper” reference had been withdrawn.
Unfortunately, I did not copy the original article.
Now, maybe the CTV staff who “updated” the original article had no agenda of their own, but … why not simply add new incoming information, instead of deleting previous segments of that article?