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Canada Watch: Liberal Party Chooses Stephane Dion as Leader
Stephane Dion delivers his speech after winning the Liberal leadership Saturday, Dec. 2, 2006 in Montreal,Canada.
Canada’s official opposition Liberals on Saturday unexpectedly chose former Environment Minister Stephane Dion as their new leader despite political shortcomings that could hinder his chances in an election expected next year.
Dion, in fourth place after the first round of voting, beat former Harvard academic Michael Ignatieff on the fourth and final ballot at a Montreal leadership convention. Dion won by 2,521 votes to 2,084.
The Liberals have dominated Canadian politics for the past century but lost power to the Conservatives in a January election. The Conservatives have a minority government that looks set to fall in 2007, sparking a new election.
Leftie Socialism and Anti-American = Canada’s Liberal Party. It doesn’t look like this guy has the standing to beat Stephen Harper in the Fall of 2007.
Captain Ed agrees with the Left movement of the Liberal Party and adds that his lack of fluency in English among other deficiencies may spell trouble for the Liberal electoral prospects.
Stephane Dion is congratulated by Jean Chretien, Bill Graham, Paul Martin and John Turner, left to right following his speech after winning the Liberal leadership Saturday, Dec. 2, 2006 in Montreal.
Dion won in part by stressing the need to do more for the environment, a topic of increasing importance to Canadians.
But he has two potential strikes against him. First, he speaks English with a heavy French accent, which could make it hard to win over voters in what is a predominantly Anglophone country.
Second, he is unpopular in his home province of Quebec, which accounts for a quarter of the seats in the federal Parliament.
French-speaking separatists strongly dislike him for his efforts to prevent them from holding a successful referendum on whether Quebec should break away from the rest of Canada.
An Ipsos-Reid opinion poll published on Friday said if Dion won the leadership, the Liberals would win 27 percent support if an election were held now, compared with 35 percent for the Conservatives.
Flap wants to know why former Liberal Prime Ministers Paul Martin and Jean Chretien aren’t in jail?
Stay tuned…….
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Iran Nuclear Watch: Ahmadinejad – Israel “On the Verge of Disappearing”
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (C) addresses members of the Islamic volunteer Basij militia just outside Tehran in November 2006. Ahmadinejad has told Palestinian prime minister Ismail Haniya that Israel is sliding toward disappearance.
JPost: Ahmadinejad: Israel will disappear
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh held talks in Doha, Qatar on Friday.
The Islamic Republic News Agency reported Saturday Ahmadinejad saying, “As everybody knows, the Zionist regime was created to establish dominion of arrogant states over the region and to enable the enemy to penetrate the heart Muslim land.”
Saying the Israeli regime was inherently a “threat,” and was “on the verge of disappearing”
Haniyeh praised the support of the Iranian government and nation for the cause of the Palestinian nation. “The Iranian nation’s brilliant stand in the rightful battles of the Palestinians encourages them and signifies their deep understanding of Islamic principles,” Iran’s official state-run news agency reported.And Israel will allow Iran to have nuclear weapons?
NO WAY
In the meantime, the Polonium 21 Russians are fecking around with United Nations Security Council negotiations.
President Bush had better realize that the “POINT OF NO RETURN” for military action against Iran’s nuclear program is fast approaching.
Stay tuned…….
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Ahmadinejad on Tuesday said Iran would soon celebrate completion of its controversial nuclear fuel program.
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Mitt Romney Watch: Romney’s Response to LAWNGATE FLAP as Investigations Continue
Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney speaks at a rally in front of the Statehouse in Boston, Sunday, Nov., 19, 2006, to force the Legislature to vote on a proposed ballot question that would end gay marriage in Massachusetts. ‘The issue before us today is whether 109 legislators will follow the constitution,’ he said Sunday. ‘Let us not see the state, which first established constitutional democracy, become the first to abandon it.’
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The Massachusetts governor’s lawn crew included illegal immigrants, a newspaper reports.
Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, a 2008 GOP presidential aspirant and an outspoken critic of illegal immigration, apparently employed undocumented landscape workers at his home near Boston.
Responding to a report in Friday’s Boston Globe, the governor’s communications director said Friday that Romney was unaware that several of the landscapers who kept up his suburban Belmont property were in this country illegally.
“Gov. Romney has no information or knowledge to corroborate the Globe’s allegations,” Eric Fehrnstrom said Friday. “He hired a legitimate lawn service company and he knows the owner as a decent, hardworking person who is a legal resident.”
So, is Governor Romney pleading ignorance or indifference? An issue that has sunk more than one candidate for United States Attorney General and a candidate for Secretary of Labor is one that the Governor of Massachusetts would want to address – or NOT?
As he explores a run for the presidency in 2008, Romney has made illegal immigration a priority issue, urging stiff penalties for employers who knowingly hire undocumented workers.
The governor has endorsed construction of a 700-mile fence along the U.S. border with Mexico and has advocated that National Guard troops be stationed along the border until the fence is finished. After Romney declared his support for the fence on a Fox television show in September, host Bill O’Reilly christened the barrier “the Mitt Romney Memorial Wall.”
Now, the lawn firm, Community Lawn Service with a Heart, hired by Governor Romney is drawing further scrutiny from the press and Massachusetts state and local government.
Two public agencies said yesterday they are reconsidering their relationship with a landscaping company following a Globe story yesterday reporting that illegal immigrants were employed by the company, which also maintains the grounds of Governor Mitt Romney’s Belmont home.
The city of Chelsea said it will review its contract with Community Lawn Service with a Heart, which maintains parks and school grounds in the city. The Massachusetts Port Authority said the company will not be allowed to renew its contract with the authority next year to maintain vacant lots in East Boston unless it can demonstrate it complies with federal immigration law.
“We expect every company that does business with Massport to comply with state and federal law,” said Richard Walsh, a spokesman for Massport.
Meanwhile, Romney, through a spokesman, declined to say whether he will continue to use the Chelsea-based company, which has maintained Romney’s 2 1/2-acre property on Marsh Street for a decade. Romney said Thursday through his spokesman that he did not know anything about the workers’ immigration status.
So, will LAWNGATE sink Mitt Romney’s campaign for the presidency?
Romney appears to be IGNORING the FLAP as he prepares to go abroad for an Asian cultural/trade trip.
However, this story will NOT disappear as Flap envisions television commercials (being designed as this is written) for use in a GOP primary entitled HYPOCRITE.
Stay tuned……
Republican Gov. Mitt Romney talks with New Hampshire’s Sen., Judd Gregg at the Manchester Republican Committee’s holiday dinner in Bedford, N.H. in this Dec. 7, 2005, file photo. Presidential hopefuls are setting the ground game seeking political activist to help them win the nation’s first presidential primary and boost their political campaign.
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Day By Day by Chris Muir December 2, 2006
