Words
A year and a week ago, I wrote this:
Do political considerations enter into it? For sure. Of course! The Liberal Party needs a winner, and Ignatieff – in everything he has done in his life – is certainly that. The Liberal Party needs someone who can fundraise, and recruit, and who understands the crucial necessity of balancing the books. The Liberal Party needs someone who can communicate to Canadians that compassion and strength are not inconsistent concepts. The Liberal Party is hurting, badly, and it needs someone to bring every single Grit together, as Ignatieff has done – improbably, remarkably – with formerly fierce combatants in the Chrétien-Martin wars (eg., me, and people like me - who I never thought would agree on anything). We need someone who can bring the party back to the centre – where the votes are.
Over the course of that year-and-a-week, I've spent a lot of time working with some amazing, amazing people on Michael's leadership campaign and, very soon thereafter, the Liberal election readiness team. It was, and is, a kick-ass team. But the Fall 2009 election that we'd been getting ready for wasn't to be. Sigh. It's now looking like it'll be next Spring, or next Fall, or maybe even the Spring after that (though I doubt it).
My focus, and this wee website's, will therefore turn more to municipal and provincial politics - and punk rock, and hockey rink philosophy, and the law, and bad puns, and clumsy alliterations, and the other stuff I like.
I'll continue to knock around the Reformatories, of course, as they never seem to stop providing material - here and here, just in this week alone - but not 24/7, as I've been doing since I signed on to Iggy's team.
Carry on as you were. I plan to.
Do political considerations enter into it? For sure. Of course! The Liberal Party needs a winner, and Ignatieff – in everything he has done in his life – is certainly that. The Liberal Party needs someone who can fundraise, and recruit, and who understands the crucial necessity of balancing the books. The Liberal Party needs someone who can communicate to Canadians that compassion and strength are not inconsistent concepts. The Liberal Party is hurting, badly, and it needs someone to bring every single Grit together, as Ignatieff has done – improbably, remarkably – with formerly fierce combatants in the Chrétien-Martin wars (eg., me, and people like me - who I never thought would agree on anything). We need someone who can bring the party back to the centre – where the votes are.
Over the course of that year-and-a-week, I've spent a lot of time working with some amazing, amazing people on Michael's leadership campaign and, very soon thereafter, the Liberal election readiness team. It was, and is, a kick-ass team. But the Fall 2009 election that we'd been getting ready for wasn't to be. Sigh. It's now looking like it'll be next Spring, or next Fall, or maybe even the Spring after that (though I doubt it).
My focus, and this wee website's, will therefore turn more to municipal and provincial politics - and punk rock, and hockey rink philosophy, and the law, and bad puns, and clumsy alliterations, and the other stuff I like.
I'll continue to knock around the Reformatories, of course, as they never seem to stop providing material - here and here, just in this week alone - but not 24/7, as I've been doing since I signed on to Iggy's team.
Carry on as you were. I plan to.