tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35117130.post174664275603383368..comments2024-03-28T19:18:40.387-04:00Comments on Northern Reflections: Now It's Trudeau's GhostOwen Grayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06464860078574618579noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35117130.post-11857400486595223342011-04-11T20:13:52.958-04:002011-04-11T20:13:52.958-04:00I just caught an interview (on the CBC) with Gordo...I just caught an interview (on the CBC) with Gordon Brown. He holds himself and others responsible for not understanding just how entangled the world's financial system is.<br /><br />For instance, he says, half the subprime mortgages in the United States were sold into Europe. Whatever the man's faults, he seems to be a truth teller, even if it reflects badly on him.<br /><br />My impression is that Mr. Harper will, as you say, tell the truth when it's to his advantage. When it's not, he'll work hard to make someone else take the fall.Owen Grayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06464860078574618579noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35117130.post-6954969922103307712011-04-11T18:58:41.545-04:002011-04-11T18:58:41.545-04:00Telling the truth? Let's not forger how impres...Telling the truth? Let's not forger how impressed Mr. Harper was with Republican strategy during George "the Baby" Bush's years. They rarely told the truth about anything, by their lies stampeding their nation into a costly oil-driven occupation of Iraq. <br /><br />Telling the truth, as Joseph Goebbles and Carl Rove successfully demonstrated (at least they did so for a while), has nothing to do with winning at politics. Subverting,embellishing, and concealing the truth does.<br /><br />That's the great truth which Mr. Harper has embraced for most, if not all, of his political life.<br /><br />But let's not jump to conclusions about the man's character: he's not afraid of the truth. In fact, I'm reasonably certain he'd defend and embrace truth to the bitter end - provided it was to his advantage to do so, and if the end didn't seem too bitterly bitter.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35117130.post-56958930934914676332011-04-11T16:38:35.783-04:002011-04-11T16:38:35.783-04:00That's a really good question, Kirby. And I ad...That's a really good question, Kirby. And I admit I don't have an answer -- except to repeat what Naomi Klein has said.<br /><br />Historically, Conservatives have been able to get people to vote against their own self interest by creating a sense of crisis.<br /><br />That's precisely what Mr. Harper is trying to do now. The antidote is to face down the monster. And -- because it is imaginary -- it will dissolve into thin air.Owen Grayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06464860078574618579noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35117130.post-40874079220105180152011-04-11T15:52:56.490-04:002011-04-11T15:52:56.490-04:00I found this attack on Trudeau remarkable. Since w...I found this attack on Trudeau remarkable. Since when were the seventies a period of terrible hardship? Despite the lies they love to spread, Conservatives are the ones who are fiscally hopeless and financially irresponsible. From Reagan to Thatcher to Mulroney to Harper, Conservatives end up making bigger government with and more spending. So how do they keep selling this different image?Kirbycairohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17528654183160305877noreply@blogger.com