…as a general rule I think it’s fair to suggest that aspiring political candidates ought to get their parties above 35 per cent in the polls before they begin comparing themselves to an epic force of nature…
Well, unless you’re talking about ‘breaking wind’. That can be a pretty powerful force of nature.
Or the hot air coming out of your mouth every time you and your eyebrows have an audience in front of you.
Honestly Iggy, when you start using rhetoric like that you’re just begging to be mocked.
Let’s hope that big wind blows you right back to Harvard.
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Saturday Update: The Fog of Iggy – Rex Murphy
Whiff of election sparks gang up on Ignatieff – Joan Bryden
MPs – all of ‘em – mum on GM – Chantel Hebert
Raitt-gate just silly – Michael Den Tandt
Ignatieff: the man they love to misquote - Don MacPherson
…He began his speech in figuratively windy fashion. He told his supporters in French that they were “blowing together to raise the wind of change in Canada,” which would “carry away Stephen Harper’s ideological right-wing government” and “bring Quebecers back to Ottawa, and to power.”
And that pretty well sums up what Ignatieff has had to offer so far to nationalist Quebecers: wind.
