A new brand of politics

The Harper government is often accused of taking its cue from the U.S. Republicans. Hard to imagine that would be the case if John McCain is elected president and follows through on some of the things he said in speech today in Columbus, Ohio.

To wit:

"For too long, now, Washington has been consumed by a hyper-partisanship that treats every serious challenge facing us as an opportunity to trade insults, disparage each other's motives and fight about the next election."

Or...

"There are serious issues at stake in this election, and serious differences between the candidates. And we will argue about them, as we should. But it should remain an argument among friends; each of us struggling to hear our conscience, and heed its demands; each of us, despite our differences, united in our great cause, and respectful of the goodness in each other. That is how most Americans treat each other. And it is how they want the people they elect to office to treat each other."

Or how about this one?

"I will hold weekly press conferences. I will regularly brief the American people on the progress our policies have made and the setbacks we have encountered. When we make errors, I will confess them readily, and explain what we intend to do to correct them."

No, that doesn't sound much like anything we'd hear here, does it?

 

 

 

Comments

[jad]

I seem to remember in another life Stockwell Day tried to hold weekly press conferences when he first came to Ottawa, and got ridiculed for his pains by the media. But that must have been a whole different gang of people to those currently in the PPG.

[bob ward]

You seem to suggest, that the "partisanship" is all Harpers doing.
What about the Liberals efforts, the defamatory remarks about the finance ministers family is the lowest of the low, but to expect YOU to say anything about this is just crazy.

[Blue Magic]

Yes and the liberals are just so good. Is it hard being a liberal PR person?

Murphy, calling for the hanging of Mulroney, dragging a dead MP through the mud. And destroying some girls life etc.. all b/c the libs have no policy and no vision. Yes that Harper is so mean. Just b/c the conservatives can throw shots back does not mean it is all them doing the partisan stuff.

But I do understand your hate for Harper. How dare he ignore a liberal repoter like Delecourt. But Mrs delecourt the more partisan you get over Harper snubing the more your cred drops. Erousion of credibility in the PPG is well underway. So keep up with the non stop Harper hating, you jumped the shark long ago.

[Scott Tribe]

What McCain said would be all well and good Susan, except he turned around an hour later after he said all these lofty words and accused Obama of not being fit to lead the US of A.

Obama was very forceful with his response, as he should be, in pointing out McCains hypocrisy.