Agreed. I never thought he was a great politician, but I always thought he was a good man.

Now of course politics is politics, but the past two years must have been a brutal ego beating.

I really wish we had a little more sophistication in our politics, like say the British. Even when they're tearing each other to pieces, at least they're polite about it.

And let's face it, the British parliament makes ours look like reccess in a primary school playground.

It's bloody embarrassing on all sides.

Hahahahaha …. Poor Baby! What a bitter loser jerk to be teaching our kids …. (paraphrased) "I can't do anything but I can teach it!" Just another academic loser who can't survive in the real world but who would have gleefully imposed his will upon an entire people with whom he shared few values. This idiot raised not even one issue of substance during the election so we can assume he, like Harper, wants closer integration with the US and that he agreed with the proposed sell out Harper is negotiating by the means of CETA.

He raised no issue about Afghanistan or our participation in trying to kill Moammar Gadhafi of Libya – which is very likely a war crime (NOT A CANADIAN VALUE IGGY AND NEITHER IS TORTURE). Iggy loved foreign entanglements because he fancied himself an "expert" in them. – because somewhere in his little heart he most certainly knew he was not an expert with respect to Canadians.

There is little doubt that Iggy did not understand Canada …. on his 1/2 hour commercial he started by saying that he was sorry that most other Canadians did not get to do what he had done " …. travel from sea to sea, ocean to ocean" What he and his handlers, friends and editors missed is that while the US has 2 seas we have 3.oceans – from sea to sea to sea, ocean to ocean to ocean.

Anyone who believes that this sort of mistake was not sub-consciously understood by many Canadians is daft. His previous written denigration of Ukrainians and other groups marked him as an elitist and his book on how much he loved Canada as a insincere illusionist.

However, many small minded liberals, like little children, do not want to blame the source for their loss, themselves.

I wish the youngsters elected to the house good luck …. not because I voted NDP (I did not) or care about rigid political parties, but because I hope they try to do their best for our country.

Who knows, out of the crop of youngsters elected, we may find a winner.

Amazing how some will compromise their values, principles to join a mudslining free for all.

Which he was more than willing to do himself, wasn't he.

Personally, I don't hold out much hope for what his students will be able to learn from him. He lost, and he's bitter about it. I wouldn't want a kid to take his class.

You mean if he was more of a leader and took charge?

I think he played the role of leader fairly well, certainly better than Dion or Martin. There was a certain unity in the party (Denis Coderre's outburst aside), they cobbled together a coherent platform, and he even went as far as to fire just about all of his top staff and replace them with Donolo and others. All these things have certain strong gutsy leadership qualities to them.

I know what you mean. He listened to his handlers too much. There was a while where he was droppin' his Gs and talkin' like this. He released those awful Narnia ads. He looked foolish with "your time is up.". But in the very end, I think he did it his way: The town halls, the loose style, no notes, the infomercial explaining who he was and where he wanted to take the country.

It's tempting to point fingers, but I don't think he totally succumbed to his handlers. This was Ignatieff's campaign, not his handlers' campaign.

Uh…what? You're suggesting that raising corporate taxes would make them so angry they'd never donate money to a school?

Or are you just really, really grasping at straws here?

No, not at all. I was in the US at the time and his appearances had basically zero impact on the debate within the United States. They likely had more impact in Canada where people knew who Michael Ignatieff was.