…I won’t be watching it!  I’m going to be at the Raptors season-ender with the Heat, and the seats are worth a small fortune.  I don’t plan to give them away.

So, to the extent I can (Rogers totally sucks at the ACC) I will be approving your comments about the debate, and what is happening.

Take the controls, faithful wk.com readers!

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One, I will resist the temptation to remind Conservative pals that I’ve been saying their lousy campaign would hurt them.  It clearly has.

Two, an interview I did with my friend Joseph Planta, for your edification.

Three, privatization of health care is not a big winner in Quebec.  I’ll bet this one gets referenced in the French debate.

 

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After watching the debate lasy night, my eldest son (almost 13) wants to join the Young Liberals. Can he? How does he?

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Dubya: “Hey, Val, good thing Cheney didn’t see us wearing jackets favoured by a murderous dictator!”

Val: “Sigh.”

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• My impressions? Well, I provided more than you could ever possibly use, last night, with a kabillion web postings.  Here’s a recap of my take.
• Overall Winner: Harper, because he didn’t mess up, and nobody made him break into a sweat.
• Overall Loser: Nobody. They all acquitted themselves pretty well.  They all had some good moments, and not so many bad ones.
• Epic fail: The broadcast.  The leaders were all older white men, the moderator was an older white man, and every videotaped questioner was white.  Didn’t look like Canada, to me.
• Harper win: He was Robo-PM, and programmed as Hell.  Grating, late-night FM announcer voice.  No passion.  But it worked for the medium.  He looked steady.
• Harper loss: The closest he came to sweating, and fumbling, came on that extraordinary (and still unseen A.G. report). The other leaders should’ve kept going at it.  They didn’t.
• Ignatieff win: His exchange with Harper on what it’s all about – “this isn’t bickering, it’s democracy” – was strong stuff.  The LPC should turn it into a spot, fast.
• Ignatieff loss: Layton pointed out that Iggy and his party outflanked Harper on the right on Afghanistan.  It shored up Layton’s soft vote, and made Libs like me remember a big, big Ignatieff error.
• Layton win: His false allegation about Ignatieff’s voting record went viral, and is now an NDP ad.  It may have been B.S., but Ignatieff should have never sloughed it off.
• Layton loss: He lied on gun control, and gave the false impression on his party’s position. Shame.  His party is split on gun control.
• Duceppe win: He was the quip guy, last night.  Murdered Harper a couple times.
• Duceppe loss: He looked shameful on immigration and reasonable accomodation. Rene Levesque, wherever he is, is shaking his head in sadness.
• That’s me. And what do Canadians think? According to Ipsos, they think Harper and Layton won.  The Layton result surprises me. What do you think?
• Pic of the day: Caption contest!

 

 

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Harper steady. Layton chippy. Duceppe unsteady. Iggy?

Just fine. He did well. The overnights will show folks saying the Liberal leader did better than they’d expected.

What do you think?

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Here’s one: “Why insist on putting a white supremacist on TVO, Steve?”

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“I don’t think Duceppe should be there. He wants to break up Canada.”

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Life imitates art: my daughter told me she felt like she was going to be sick – a bug is going around her school.

She’s now heading to bed.

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