WASHINGTON — The former Bill Clinton adviser — a senior guy, a respected guy — doesn’t mince words.

“A lot of the American public has checked out on (President Barack) Obama,” he says. “He’s got a lot of things going against him right now.”

We’re in the Clinton man’s office, overlooking Pennsylvania Avenue, and just a short walk from the White House, where he used to work. His office walls are covered with photos of him with his former boss, as well as political luminaries from around the globe.

He’s a big guy, gregarious, like his former boss — and, like his former boss, a Democrat until the day he dies.

But to him, and not a few other Democrats these days, things don’t look good for Barack Obama. Not at all.

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1. Minor Threat
2. Burning Spear
3. Marley
4. Magazine
5. Joy Division
6. Pere Ubu
7. Soundgarden
8. The Jam
9. The Slits
10. Young Marble Giants

…such are the lists I make on ten-hour bus rides back to Canada.

What’s your Top Ten list?

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We’ll talk to you about Ontario’s finances when you learn to spell, um, “Ontario.”

Deal?

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…and not Tim Hudak’s kind of swearing, either.

Dalton McGuinty’s! So many people said he was a goner – I recall the head of a trial lawyer’s association telling me, with evident glee, how my “boy” was in big trouble – and now, today, Dalton’s swearing in a new cabinet. Not bad.

Wish I was there to see it. But Washington, on this sunny day, is a good spot to be, too.

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More than forty years after he seized power, he’s apparently dead. I actually never thought this day would come. The Arab Spring has wrought many, many changes.

Hopefully good ones.

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That’s the word Tim Hudak just used in his first press conference since the election.

I don’t think I have ever heard a leader of a political party say such a thing at a press conference, have you?

Either way, it certainly shows Tim Hudak is one classy, classy guy. Next thing you know, he’ll start defaming foreigners and gays.

Oh, wait.

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