Blue Like You

Tonight I am not using closed caption to see what dion is saying so most of his stmts will be unintelligible to me. As for drinking, is anyone following that game still sober.
May is being very ignorant and again it is 4 against one.

Layton supporting May. And May wants the dollar lowered to compete.

Basically, this is a ‘Bash-Harper’ event. Whoever says Bush and Big oil the most wins.

May just copied the greenshift-tax on things we don’t want and reduce taxes on income. She also brought up Clinton.

Somebody tell May this is the National Election Debate,ot the Central-Nova debate. If she mentions the shipyard one more time I’ll puke.

Elizabeth May is a fraud.

The only way to get more doctors in Canada ASAP is to allow them in from other countries. I attended several high school graduations this year and only one of the several dozens of those on the stage had a medical career in mind. Most of the boys were heading for the trades. The girls were going into other areas, one was going into education. On the other hand I have a friend who has been waiting 3 years to get into nursing school. If there are no spaces, no nurses or doctors. Who cut medical spaces in Ontario.
Unless we go the communist way and go to the classrooms and say, you and you and you will be a doctor, nurse etc. If no one wants to go thru the hassle of a medical degree, and face lawsuits for leaving a scar, or telling a family the wrong sex of a baby. Stop the malpractice suits for trivial things and you might get more medical people.

Paikin just asked if Conservative’s are barbarians?

And my respect for Paikin just evaporated with one stupid ignorant question.

Maybe he should ask if the leaders think the Liberal’s are thiefs.

“Paikin just asked if Conservative’s are barbarians?”

I take Paikin’s question in a good way. It puts those oh so tolerant progressives on the spot. I know damn well that they believe conservatives are barbarians, but Paikin put them in the position of having to lie … which they did.

I have never seen a more poorly moderated debate involving Canada’s major political parties.

I was embarrassed for the moderator Steve Paiken (?Paikin). Asking if the other political parties thought that Harper was a barbarian for cutting some arts funding???? As a moderator, Steve Paikin did not come up to standard.

This was not a debate. It was ridiculous.

And as for Elizabeth May……I found her tone argumentative and unreasonable…and her finger pointing was over the top.

May remids me of a female clown in my son’s Mario Wii game, only the clown is lovable.

Yay, Jack’s going after Dion’s voting record!

Bush’s name has now been mentioned 37 times.

They need some balance over there.

Boy that’s the truth!! I don’t know “who” they have in their “rooms”, but there not Harper fans!

Bush’s name has now been mentioned 37 times.

Paul, you were keeping track? Good for you.

They really should have a moratorium on the word “Bush”. It’s getting beyond tedious.

Mary - I had a good laugh at that.

Now Dion is mumbling about something but I still can’t understand him!!

Oh I think this is the first time Jack has said “kitchen table” - Good for him - mind you he negated it by saying 50 billion tax cut!!

I wonder if Stephane Dion would claw back pension-splitting?

Layton just threw in all the tables now. Kitchen, boardroom and cabinet!

Bush=41 times

Put a muzzle on May.

Hey, thanks for keeping me company here tonight, everyone! It’s much better sharing your frustration with others.

All in all, I think things went well except for Paikin, May, and well, Layton and Dion, and Duceppe…

My verdict on the English Debate:

Well that was a waste of two hours of my life. They were all yelling at each other and interrupting each other (minus Harper who was the one getting yelled at mostly) and I couldn’t hear anything. That was terrible. One thing I did hear was Bush Bush Bush Bush Bush. It gets old. Nobody won that it was a draw; Dion lost because I have no clue what the heck he’s saying but nobody won.

Biggest loser is that darn table. Get rid of it! When will these people learn if you don’t have mikes that automatically cut off when the time is up there is no freaking point. It was worst then the 2004 debate. Ugh. Watching two hours of that was torture. I should have watched the American one. The things we do for love of country eh?

May’s a single mother, go figure? Who, man or woman, would want to be with that?

Bruce, you mean Lizzie May, right?

If keeping your cool and not being a total jerk Harper won. Still it was nasty.

I was finally able to get into the National Post site just now. It was overloaded all night.

You can read the replay of the live-blogging event. They seem to think that Layton really scored on Dion.

John Turley-Ewart: Good on Jack — he has called Dion on not standing up to Harper in the Commons and passing 43 Tory bills. If you can’t do your job as opposition leader what are you doing running for PM — great line.

I got turfed out of NP just after the first hour and couldn’t get back in.. that ticked me off. Macleans wasn’t nearly as entertaining!

Sheila Copps is trying to tell everyone that Dion got lots of time to explain his program - the only problem is - no body could understand him!!!!

the only thing that matters after tonight in my opinion is that Layton beat Dion and deserves 2nd place as official opposition.

We better pray that May loses to Peter McKay because Question Period in the house will be hell if we need to listen to her shrill voice and interruptions. By the end of the debate I was yelling “shut up already” at May’s disrespectful nature to Harper. She’s one froot loop she is.

Why when didn’t anyone bring up Liberal corruption or Adscam when that woman asked about why folks should bother voting when promises get broken and governments lose their way? A missed opportunity there for Harper at least.

I don’t thin Pakin was all that bad actually. I think he tossed out the controversial stuff because that’s his style, and as someone said earlier it made their answers all lies.

Layton at least made and attempt and mentioned the Volvo closure. It was a good effort but he said it manufactured aerospace equipment. No, it’s machines for construction, road graders etc.

I’m pretty sure that the underdog won. That being the guy who was ganged up on….Harper.

I would like the war room to do an ad showing the thousands of men/women working in the oil sands, from the drillers to the waitresses in the restaurants and bars, then I would like it mentioned how many of them are from Atlantic areas or NFLD. Next I would like to see how many jobs are in the manufacturing industries in Ont and Quebec that depends on orders from Alberta.
Next, show some shut down of any plant and equate it with job losses in Ont or Que, or Atlantic families having to go on welfare, kids not getting their wants, with a message, sorry you have to quit hockey, piano, etc cause daddy is out of work in Alberta.
You get the idea. That message has to get out.
Next another ad showing that one can drive across many european countries in one day, so mass transportation is possible. Then drive across Canada or even a Province in one day.
PMSH has to explain what programs were cut in the arts, show examples of them and why they didn’t work.
Duceppe has a conflict of interest in this issue as his kids are in the business of making movies.
Another ad should show all the small businesses, mom and pop farms, independant truckers, and others who are incorporated and will be hit hard by Laytons plan. Tip, when you go to a store, hire a contactor or whatever, look for the letters LTD. That is a corporation. They are all not Exxons etc.
I think PMSH was waiting for the debates to be over and will now come out with all the guns aimed at Dion.
And, what is with the cbc, giving so much credit to lizzie. Are they trying to get voters to switch from NDP so Dion can stay opposition leader.
Glad the advance polls are open soon so I can mark my X.
PMSH is getting bashed for not saying anything new about the economy. I think that was so the other leaders could put out their plans for carbon tax, increased taxes, social spending etc. Watch for him to attack those in the next few days.

And how about this picture in the Star ? If they had waited a couple of seconds he would have been gone altogether.

What neither mention is:
1. Canada is the 2nd largest country in the world in surface area, sweden is 49th. Their distances are shorter than ours transportation-wise.

3. The Greens are against nuclear power.

Good stuff, Gabby. I was sitting there thinking, ‘I wonder what Lorrie Goldstein would say about that’.

Thanks for the facts. I may use them in the future.

Jad, typical Star partisan garbage. Never mind that they had probably all been there for ages. *Sigh*