I hate elections

[plonq]

I've been avoiding the debates and ads as much as I can, but it tends to filter its way down anyway.  Here is the filtered impression I get from each of the major parties.

Liberal: Blah blah blah Stephen Harper will eat your children, vote for us blah blah blah

Conservative:  Blah blah blah Paul Martin is a crook, vote for us blah blah blah

NDP: Blah blah blah Paul Martin is a crook, vote for anybody but him blah blah blah Wait!  We meant vote for us!  Uh... medicare!  Blah blah blah

BQ: Blah blah blah Quebec Quebec Quebec Quebec Quebec blah blah blah

The problem that I have as a voter is that they all strike me as self-serving little men with nary a scrap of vision or credibility between them.

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Overheard in the elevator this morning: Opinions are like assholes.  Everybody has one, but nobody wants to hear about yours.

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[dakhun.livejournal.com]

Opinions are like assholes. Everybody has one, but nobody wants to hear about yours.

The word "about" can be removed from that statement, resulting in much potty-related hilarity.

[thewerewolf.livejournal.com]

Someone made the comment that this election isn't about a winner, but rather who's the least loser of the bunch. Sadly, it's true. I've never seen a Canadian election so deep in infantile behaviour and viciousness.

A very sad day indeed.

You know things have gotten bad when one of the candidates (Harper) argues that you should vote for his party because 'even if we get a majority, the courts and senate will keep us under control...'. I mean... sheesh.

[plonq.livejournal.com]

even if we get a majority, the courts and senate will keep us under control..

Mister Harper is counting on the voters to have very short memories when he says things like that. For one thing, the courts can't do much to keep him in check when he has the "notwithstanding" trump card to play. It's the government's get-out-of-jail-free card to play when they don't like a ruling by the supreme court.

The second minor issue is that of the senate. I'm old enough to remember when an earlier Conservative government wanted to pass a bit of legislation to enact the G.S.T. The Senate was controlled by Liberals at the time, and they made noises about sending the bill back for modifications. That didn't stump Brian; he simply had the number of senate seats expanded and appointed enough of his personal cronies to make sure that the legislation got rubber-stamped in the senate.

[thewerewolf.livejournal.com]

Yep! I remember it though.

That's the thing - just last year Harper was talking about converting the Senate to being elected (which would work in his favour, of course), and he and other Con MPs were complaining about how it's inappropriate for the Supreme Court to override 'elected politicians' and 'subverting democracy'...

Now he's ok with this?

I think not.

[kfops.livejournal.com]

I think the best part of the election process so far have to the parody campaign ads created by "The Hour Has 22 Minutes".


Stephen Harper was in the store the other day, and told the clerk that he had a "cue-pon".
Not "coo-pon".
He really said it.
We're not making this up.

[pierrekrahn.livejournal.com]

Heh.
I loved that one much more than the "Harper wants to give guns to babies" ad.