{"id":2303,"date":"2009-06-09T18:08:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-09T22:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2303"},"modified":"2009-06-09T18:08:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-09T22:08:00","slug":"one-defends-and-the-other-conquers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2303","title":{"rendered":"One defends and the other conquers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;ve all been intensely following the Nova <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_0\"><span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_0\">Scotia<\/span><\/span> election (ha ha!). If you haven&#8217;t, well, it might be worth at least glancing at tonight&#8217;s results, because Nova <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_1\"><span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_1\">Scotia<\/span><\/span> is poised to become Canada&#8217;s fifth province to succumb to the socialist hordes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_L6NW1UySEKs\/Si1hfL2tgII\/AAAAAAAABPk\/hyQ2lrmvlcI\/s1600-h\/darrell+dexter.jpg\"><img id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5345035521144750210\" style=\"FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 160px\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_L6NW1UySEKs\/Si1hfL2tgII\/AAAAAAAABPk\/hyQ2lrmvlcI\/s200\/darrell+dexter.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metronews.ca\/halifax\/local\/article\/238249--latest-poll-numbers-give-ndp-a-chance-at-majority\">latest polls<\/a> have Darrell Dexter&#8217;s <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_2\">NDP<\/span> (<em>campaign poster to the left<\/em>) on pace for a majority government, so things do not look good for the fiddler, (outgoing) Premier Rodney MacDonald. The real intrigue in this one may be the race for second place, with the Liberals and Tories neck-and-neck by all accounts.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of which, I can guarantee that Liberal leader Stephen McNeil would not only have become opposition leader, but possibly also Premier, had he run TV ads with the tag-line &#8220;<em>MacDonald fiddled while the economy burned<\/em>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p><img id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5345036530902959474\" style=\"DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 232px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 264px; TEXT-ALIGN: center\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_L6NW1UySEKs\/Si1iZ9f1BXI\/AAAAAAAABPs\/pOFVsTnnndw\/s320\/macdonald+fiddler.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I won&#8217;t be watching this one too closely, but all you Nova Scotia politicos should feel free to discuss the results in the comments section as they roll in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;ve all been intensely following the Nova Scotia election (ha ha!). If you haven&#8217;t, well, it might be worth at least glancing at tonight&#8217;s results, because Nova Scotia is poised to become Canada&#8217;s fifth province to succumb to the socialist hordes. The latest polls have Darrell Dexter&#8217;s NDP (campaign poster to the left) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2303"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}