Wednesday, October 1, 2008

Canadian Politics

One of the main headlines at globeandmail.com today is "Grits continue their attack over Iraq speech".

A politician steals parts of a speech from another politician and this is headline news.

Really?

Should the content of the speech not be subject to large scale attacks? Who cares if he plagiarized? Politicians plagiarize all the time. Obama got caught during the democratic primaries doing the same thing. Who cares? The liberals think Harper should be writing the speeches himself. If Stephane Dion is spending all of his time writing speeches, that might provide a little insight into why he's faltering so poorly...

The man thats on the edge of leading a majority government gave a whole speech full of neo-con talking points giving full support for Canada to involve itself with a war that has no end. A war that has cost hundreds of thousands of lives. Billions of dollars. A war that inspires those that wish to do us harm, not remove them.

The liberals choose to point out its plagiarized? Who cares. No one.

The problem is that the liberals have no legs to stand on concerning any issue of importance because they are just as bad as the conservatives, only they'd probably bankrupt the country with Dion at their head.

Where's Chretien when you need him?

9 comments:

Chris said...

Um, his speech writers shouldn't be plagirizing?

Josh said...

Who cares?

Chris said...

Because theft is wrong?

Josh said...

The government steals all the time. This is not headline news.

Chris said...

Taxes are not stealing.

Josh said...

to steal: to take something that does not belong to you

$400 of my earned pay cheque was gone before I even got to touch it. The government took it essentially at gun point when it belonged to me. That is stealing.

Plagiarizing a speech is wrong. It is not headline news.

Christopher said...

And how do you intend on paying for the libertarian government you are promoting? The police force it will entail?

Josh said...

Income tax is only a fraction of government revenue.

Douglas Porter said...

HOW do you intend on paying for libertarian government, Josh!