ollie Posted April 7, 2006 Report Share Posted April 7, 2006 Ignatieff announces leadership bidDion enters Liberal leadership raceI can't wait for the convention. The debates will be remarkable.Hux, got an early favourite? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hux Posted April 7, 2006 Report Share Posted April 7, 2006 Not sure at this point, but I am impressed with Ignatieff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bradm Posted April 7, 2006 Report Share Posted April 7, 2006 I just saw Ignatieff interviewed by Don Newman on CBC Newsworld, and I was impressed by what he said (especially his views on Quebec having a role at UNESCO, which was part of the recent throne speech) and how he said it. (Does being a lecturer give him an edge as a communicator?)He also had some views on how taxes get transferred between the federal and provincial levels, and they sounded on the tough-talking side, not fiscally, but in terms of responsbility (at both levels).I may pay more attention to this race than to those that have come up in the past few years.Aloha,Brad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr_Evil_Mouse Posted April 7, 2006 Report Share Posted April 7, 2006 I'd have a hard time getting past Ignatieff's foreign policy thing (hackneyed as that is already starting to sound); my money's still on Kennedy, fwiw, who has had to deal with people besides post-grads at Harvard for the last many years (not to mention the layers of government in Canada from the municipal to the federal, in concrete terms). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StaggerLee Posted April 8, 2006 Report Share Posted April 8, 2006 Rick Mercer's rant was about Ignatieff this week. Pretty funny, you can watch it on the website: http://www.cbc.ca/mercerreport/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hux Posted April 10, 2006 Report Share Posted April 10, 2006 I agree the Iraq thing will be tough for him, and in the end Kennedy may be the most untarnished....I just like how MI answers questions and conducts himself, he`s not a politician and at this point is not speaking from some programmed talking points in his head or trying to tread carefully around questions/issues. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr_Evil_Mouse Posted April 10, 2006 Report Share Posted April 10, 2006 Ignatieff might come off making the Libs into even a bigger caricature than they already are to the Right - "Look, now they're trying to foist some kind of philosopher king on us!"His intelligence may be his undoing, like it was for Howard Dean. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hux Posted April 10, 2006 Report Share Posted April 10, 2006 Could - but I think he is the real deal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AD Posted April 10, 2006 Report Share Posted April 10, 2006 Could - but I think he is the real deal. Holy crap, for once I agree with Hux about Liberal politics! For now I like Ignatieff as well, over all the other candidates. I'll be paying close attention to what he says in the coming months. AD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ollie Posted April 10, 2006 Author Report Share Posted April 10, 2006 His intelligence may be his undoing, like it was for Howard Dean.It may be and that depresses me. Stephen Harper's "aw shucks" everyman routine is playing well at the moment. Hello, people! Intelligence is a good thing.Ignatieff and Kennedy were both on Question Period yesterday. I prefer Kennedy on paper but Ignatieff has a charm that is winning me over. I still can't reconcile his stance on Iraq. I somewhat buy the spin that what we say as a private citizen might contradict what we do as a public figure but doubts linger.It will be interesting to see if Ignatieff keeps his free-wheeling style once the stakes get higher.I have no interest in any of the other declared and rumoured-to-be-declared candidates at this point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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