Ignatieff - "In the middle of the word accountability is the word count"

Michael Ignatieff is making a damn solid point. It's the sort of point a conservative leader should be making; that your government is only as good as the data it has on hand... unless of course you are governing to American Conservative standards, where "post-modernism" and wishful thinking have taken the place of facts.

The allergy of the modern Western Conservative to facts in evidence is akin to a virus, and it's spread, methinks, by the like of Rupert Murdoch, who's propagandist organs are waved in our faces daily.

God forbid a government should actually do some hard science to find out what it's citizens, it's small business communities, it's regions and it's future require in terms of sensible and sustainable public policy. That sounds like something that notorious communist, Barry Goldwater might say.

Obama unfairly using Canadian-style politics!

H/T > Mattbastard:

Who simply posts a press release from the Liberal Party of Canada with no comment. But then, what could you add?

Read, enjoy, and as you do, see if any of this sounds suspiciously familiar...

For Immediate Release
September 15, 2008

Harper’s Index - Week One

Number of campaign events that Stephen Harper has held so far that have been open to members of the public: 0

Number of campaign events that Stéphane Dion has held so far that have been open to members of the public: 18 (including two town halls)

Number of times Jason Kenney has been seen in public since the puffin incident: 0

Total savings a Canadian family could receive from Mr. Harper’s two-cent-per-litre diesel tax cut if it fully “trickles down” to consumers and is not absorbed by suppliers or transporters: $15 annually or about 25 cents per week.

Number of Conservative campaign events that used unwitting new and expectant mothers as human props: 1

Number of apologies Mr. Harper has had to issue so far for gaffes by his staff: 2

Number of female party leaders Mr. Harper has tried to exclude from the leader’s debate: 1

Number of times the RCMP has been used to physically shield Mr. Harper from questions: 1 (2 if you count This Hour Has 22 Minutes)

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Contact:

Liberal Party of Canada Press Office
613-783-8888

Do you see what I see? Barack Hussain Obama has stooped to employing Canadian Style politics!

He has resorted to employing The Politics of Personal Courtesy. He thinks - and I must emphasize this, for it is a critical point - he thinks that American voters will stand for Canadian political niceties; unfairly and un-patriotically employing banter that is both amusing and substantive!

Who does he think he is? Who does he think he's talking to? Go back to Canada, Hoser! How DARE you try to change the game by actually playing it skillfully according to the written rules?!?
How DARE you respectfully and politely refuse to engage in American style politics?

Who the hell do you think you are? Wayne Gretzky?