Totally without context politics!

[odditycollector]

 
Asked about his time with [The Prime Minister] at the National Citizens Coalition, Nicholls said: "I worked with Stephen Harper for five years and never once did he in that time eat a baby."

 
Oh, fine. Context.

I'm just trying to figure out the continuing fascination with politicians' dietary habits, myself. Although "Vote Conservative - We Don't Eat Babies!" would at least promise a more entertaining spate of ads next time around.

Comments

[athene-51.livejournal.com]

never once did he in that time eat a baby

See, but that doesn't mean he doesn't eat them now.

[odditycollector.livejournal.com]

Hee! True! Maybe he had it completely under control, was going to Baby-Eaters Anonymous and everything, but suffered a relapse...

Stress of the job and all that. I'm *sure* all would understand.

[brownbetty]

This is really the press release they should have given out right away, instead of “that was immature, and also, mean!”

[odditycollector.livejournal.com]

I didn't see those - one of the benefits side effects of no TV. But it's just a *lovely* comment - after all, everyone knows the secret is *deny, deny, deny*.

[homz.livejournal.com]

Well, the Liberal campaign this year was pretty entertaining. Particularly how they decided all they needed to do was point the finger at how evil the Conservatives are and how they'll ruin their country with their values that no one agrees with, and not actually tell us what the grand Liberal plans for running the country were. Especially in the last week where the Liberal site was basically dedicated to an in-depth critique of the Conservative campaign. I mean, when the Liberal ads get on the Colbert Report and the Daily Show, we must be doing something right.

The Liberal supporters just ate it all up, of course. I think that's what makes me angry about it the most.

[odditycollector.livejournal.com]

I saw a couple of those. "Stephen Harper. Has been known to talk to. AMERICANS!!!"

Me: O.o ...Wait, this is for serious?
Me: *mad giggling*

That said, there's a difference between agreeing with the campaign and just not wanting the Alliance to take over the country. Which I think was a *lot* of the vote - for the NDP as well, whose campaign (from, admittedly, what few bits I picked up) was little better. "We aren't the Evil Conservatives OR the Corrupt Liberals! Options, people!"

[homz.livejournal.com]

This is true.

I'm biased for sure, and my opinion is probably influenced even more by a friend of mine who seemed pretty convinced that Paul Martin was God. We had a good discussion about politics on my livejournal during election season, though. It's still one of the highlights that justifies my continued existence on here.

That said, I sway towards the Conservative side of things in my own political beliefs (though there are a lot of things that seem to be somehow traditionally associated with Liberal policy that I agree with, so it's hard to say), but I am glad that not everyone voted for them. I personally think they deserved a minority, but I'm not so certain about what they would have done in a majority. Just... the campaign thing really bugged me. I tried to write something about it on here, but I got half-way through it, had to do something else, and then came back and realized it was exactly the sort of thing I had promised myself _not_ to write on here.

Oh well.