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In hairier times

by Aaron Wherry on Thursday, November 5, 2009 9:03am - 13 Comments

CBC digs up a clip of Michael Ignatieff on Midday in 1987 discussing The Russian Album. The decision to match a grey suit, blue shirt and green tie was certainly daring.

Tags: cbc, Michael Ignatieff, Midday, The Russian Album, Valerie Pringle

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Dakota

Good news for Ignatieff today, he has finally caught up to Dion's impressive 2008 election numbers! Good job Iggy, you're doing far better then I expected.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/pdf/reportfortheCBCNovembe…

Ted

And surpassed Harper's numbers from the fall of 2005 while Harper has already fallen off of Martin's numbers from the same polling period.

Dakota

How did that work out for Martin? I bet he went on to great success. And what ever happened to that Harper guy?

http://intensedebate.com/people/NoNameCS NoNameCS

It looks like you missed the point, there, as large as a 747 as it was. Anybody out there want to spell it out for Dakota? No? Ok, I will: polls outside the writ period are notoriously bad predictors of an election's outcome. Case in point, Harper was lower in the polls than Ignatieff is at the moment when Martin was PM, yet he went on to defeat him. There. Does that help?

Ted

And defeat him only a few months later.

Not only that, but according to the Liberals and the media at the time, Harper's political coffin was already being built (for the third or fourth time) and he was already on his way out after spending a summer "doing nothing".

And the numbers were similar for Mulroney in 1984 at the start of the election as they were for Chretien in 1993 at the start of an election.

Generic

Is it just me or does he look like Chris de Burgh?
http://intensedebate.com/people/tigerinexil1428 tigerinexile

Got a kick out of –

Q – So, did you do this for your kids?
A – No, I did it for me.

Bracingly honest. :p
http://intensedebate.com/people/john_g2708 john g

Boy, when he's wincing (like he is on the still-shot of the YouTube clip above), it looks like his eyebrows have actually overgrown his eyes.

http://intensedebate.com/people/OntarioTown OntarioTown

Yup, he's in good company having those bushy eyebrows – Einstein, Darwin, Mark Twain, etc., etc., and a really great guy – my late dad.

Norm

The best part is the closing salutations

She: Lovely to meet you Michael!
He: Good.

It pretty much says it all.
joe in ottawa

Meanwhile on a totally not political observation! Good old Iggy and Steve had EPIC hair back in the day Ha : )