Friday, May 29, 2009

“Prof. McMonocle throws a punch” –Scott Feschuk, Maclean’s June 8 issue.

It must be tough, being a weekly disseminator of irony and satire, and Scott Feschuk does not hit my funny bone every week; but his comment on Ignatieff this week is without equal and should be included in the next edition of John Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations: " [Ignatieff’s] problem isn’t that he left Canada for 34 years. The problem is that his intellect failed to clear customs on the journey home” [my italics]. Priceless!

However, don’t blame Ignatieff for not taking the risk of asking us –the electorate –to think. He is surely mindful of the dictum that a politician’s first duty is to be elected, and remembering that no politician ever went wrong underestimating the intelligence of the average voter..

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