"It's Australia on line one … something about royalties."

The Op-Eds are a good question, actually. Politicians deliver speeches written by others all the time… but do other people seriously write Stephen Harper‘s Op-Ed pieces?

So how is this pssibly relevant? It happened five years and two elections ago.

Mr Harper now has a solid record as Prime Minister that all can see. His views in 2003 on Iraq are about as relevant as Iggy’s views from 2003 on Iraq are.

The Liberal strategy is obvious. The Liberals want to get everyone talking about Harper and Bush in the same breath. They don’t really care about what a speechwriter did or didn’t do.

The Canadian electorate is not being asked to vote for Bush, who is a lame duck. It is being asked to consider the relative merits of Harper or Dion or the other guys (and one gal).

I don’t know about you, but when faced with a choice between Dion and Harper I’d choose Prime Minister Harper any day. And, I’d base my opinion of PM Harper on his record as PM or his plans for the future, not on what some long forgotten speechwriter did or did not do.

Mr Harper now has a solid record as Prime Minister that all can see. His views in 2003 on Iraq are about as relevant as Iggy’s views from 2003 on Iraq are.

Double check who won the Liberal leadership race and get back to me about how irrelevant views on Iraq are.

I’m trying to judge – help me folks…
Is the adjective – awkward – more or less of a perjorative than bobward?

Yo Kady! Owen Lippert! That’s the guy Tories say is the fall guy. Link wouldn’t go through but I have his grovelling apology.

Correct me if I’m wrong, But Mr Dion has been running all over Canada talking about his “team”. Ignatieff is most definitely part of the team. Most of my Liberal friends seem to believe the Liberal leadership race next year will be Ignatieff’s to lose.

…just my two cents

” guess that “speech writer” has already copped to being over worked and liberated (you scribes should like that word) parts of the speech WITHOUT harpers knowledge.”
Bobb Woard (ah ha ha ha ha ha!!!! Mispelled names are so funny!!!)- This is exactly the problem. There seems to be FAR too many mistakes that are occuring “WITHOUT harper’s knowledge.” Shouldn’t a real leader have some idea of what is going on? Is he that utterly cluesless? It seems that he has never been aware of a single screw that involves him in any way and yet he is so accutely aware of other people’s mistakes. Plausable???? Or perhaps it is an insult to our collective intelligence to keep using that utterly absurd excuse that he was unaware.

“nice try, next time, try to play in the BIG leagues and not double AA.

game, set match”

As for that one Baub- Those are some awfully condescending words when putting out an argument as weak as yours here. If they are in AA it seems you are riding the pines in house league.

You guys should try to get your talking points right. They won’t have the same punch if they vary noticeably — not that they have too much anyway, but that’s not my problem.

Five years (and change) ago — OK, everyone agrees on that. But was it one party ago, or two? Two elections ago, or three? Do pay attention to such details, chaps.

Gone by tomorrow.

Told ya.

One more day of Bob then we get more Iggy, you know the one who supported the Iraq War and torture. Just thought we need to be clear on which Iggy we are talking about.

Somebody should track down the Australian staffer who wrote the John Howard speech in the first place.

Cute…….. love it.
I bet that old goat Bob Rae knew of this some time ago and in his wisdom played it for maximum benefit – like just before these debates.
Some life left in the old Liberal Party yet……. Cheeky bastards, what!!!

What talking points? I’ve never seen a Conservative talking point and could not even say if there is such a thing. I do receive the Liberal media lines in my in-box every day because I attended their Montreal convention as a non-partisan observer. I tried to take my name off their list, but it seems to be impossible.