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Feel this speech

by Aaron Wherry on Thursday, April 30, 2009 1:55pm - 19 Comments

Justin Trudeau’s evil twin talks to Liberals in Vancouver.

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  • Martin Levenson

    Boilerplate platitudes. Anyone could have given that speech. Oratorical excess in the cause of …what?
    “That’s the kind of Canada we’re building here, this weekend”. Uh-huh. Get the man a decent speechwriter.

  • http://www.tennisvagabond.com BigDaveS

    Insinuating that he’s a smug ponce juuuuuust isn’t gonna fly.

  • Jarrid

    You want to know why Michael Ignatieff kept him off his list of opposition critics – just watch this video.

    A 5.35 second video clip and not a single meaningful utterance. Just vapid claptrap, 5 minutes and thirty-five second’s worth. If there was such a thing as a male cheerleader, Justin would fit the bill.

    Other than the 12 year old pubescent girl demographic I honestly can’t think of anyone who, to quote Aaron, could “feel this speech” without wanting to run to the closest exit.

    • herringchoker

      Apparentlly the dauphin likes to lead with his chin.

      From the threnches in WWI, to the beaches of WWII (otherwise known in Trudeau family lore as the “polo fields of Harvard”).

    • Bryan

      Wasn’t George W. Bush a male cheerleader? (A quick Google search shows that he was indeed).

  • Dot

    And here I was thinking he might switch back and forth into mandarin mid sentence.

  • Chas

    I know it’s hard to imagine Wherry being an even bigger partisan hack than he is at present, but can you imagine what he’ll be like when Justin becomes Liberal leader?

  • peter

    Aaron is a ridiculous Liberal hack with this blog.
    Justin Trudeau is not a good public speaker. He says nothing here, just rhetoric, no substance.

    • Craig

      Surely Wherry’s being critical – Trudeau’s evil twin, etc.

  • Jarrid

    …I should add, if Margaret Trudeau had ever gone into politics, this is undoubtedly the kind of speech she would have given.

  • JMD

    Thank you, thank you Macleans. It has been too long since the empty suit graced this blog. He makes a good Liberal.

  • Craig

    The old line of Marx’s comes to mind – “History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.”

  • Jim

    Must be a good speech, the camera man was certainly trembling.

    Is it just me, or does Trudeau just take a bunch of platitudes and then sing them out loud?

  • Sean Stokholm

    Think of it as oratorial jazz, if it helps…

  • http://bcinto.blogspot.com BCer in Toronto

    Sorry Jim, my arrm was sore. And, like a good Liberal, I also had a glass of wine in the other hand.

  • bettie

    No it’s not just you. I had the same impression… “sound and fury, signifying nothing”, as says our friend the bard.

  • http://prairiewrangler.wordpress.com/ Olaf

    Real Canadians drink beer, Jeff. Liberal elitist! Get ‘im!

  • http://bcinto.blogspot.com BCer in Toronto

    It was a BC wine, Olaf. We Libeals believe in supporting Canadian businesses. Just make sure that beer you’re swilling is a microbrew, and not a band of a big US-owned brewing giant…

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