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“Life is a tale told by an idiot – full of sound and fury, signifying nothing”

24 April 2012 2 Comments

Thank you William. That about sums up Michael Ignatieff for if what Mr. Ignatieff said in the BBC is correct and in context (Quebec is headed for independence), he is a bigger idiot than I originally thought. Fortunately, this comes from the faux politician who turned down the Prime Ministership when handed to him and then went on to prognosticate that under his leadership, the federal Liberal Party will go on to great things. They had to settle for one of their greatest defeats barley hanging on to official party status.

Maybe Shakespeare’s England is a good place for Iggy to be.

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Rawlson King said:

Michael Bliss pretty much summed up Ignatieff in 2006 when he wrote:

“None of this would likely have happened if Mr. Ignatieff had not deliberately fanned the embers of Quebec nationalism in his campaign for the Liberal leadership. Without Mr. Ignatieff’s publicizing of the issue, it probably would have simmered harmlessly. He is a classic example of the irresponsible intellectual who advocates what seem like good ideas, and only afterwards comes to understand and regret the unintended consequences of the positions he has taken. He did not learn the lessons of his ghastly Iraq folly. After making mistakes that would have humbled and silenced most thoughtful men, Mr. Ignatieff instead chose to bring his carpet bag of ideas back to Canada. Millions pay the price of the Ignatieff ego.”

# 24 April 2012 at 9:52 am