I guess the Liberal leadership candidates don’t see the need to attack each other, given that Jeffrey Simpson is doing such a good job of it.<\/p>\n
Simpson followed up yesterday’s attack on Bob Rae <\/a>with a scathing piece on Michael Ignatieff <\/a>today. Among his critiques from the past two days:<\/p>\n “There being a list of candidates with serious deficiencies…” <\/em> “What’s obvious is the paucity of endorsements of Mr. Rae by prominent Ontario federal Liberals”<\/p>\n “Although Mr. Ignatieff insists he always considered himself a Canadian, it was hard to discern that while he lived in the United States.”<\/p>\n “Mr. Rae is wheel-spinning, maybe dying politically”<\/em><\/p>\n Ouch.<\/p>\n These two articles follow some of Simpson’s recent writings, which have included:<\/p>\n “Watch those Liberal hobbits scurry about the leadership stage<\/a>“ Stay tuned for future Simpson profiles including:<\/p>\n “Dion’s asinine ramblings” Obviously Jeffrey Simpson is free to write what he pleases and a lot of his criticism has been valid. All I’ll say is that it’s a good thing Liberal leadership contenders can “take a punch<\/a>“. Lesser men<\/a> might start whining about a media conspiracy… I guess the Liberal leadership candidates don’t see the need to attack each other, given that Jeffrey Simpson is doing such a good job of it. Simpson followed up yesterday’s attack on Bob Rae with a scathing piece on Michael Ignatieff today. Among his critiques from the past two days: “There being a list of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"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=952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
“Mr. Ignatieff has the fewest Canadian scars by virtue of having fought the fewest battles in his own country, a fact that, in other countries would almost automatically disqualify anyone from serious leadership ambition”<\/p>\n
“Style, sure, but where’s Mr. Kennedy’s substance?<\/a>“
“Ignatieff’s unbearable lightness of absence<\/a>“<\/p>\n
“Martha Hall Findlay: Menace to Canada?”
“You can’t spell Bevilacqua without evil”
“Ken Dryden nearly cost us the Summit Series”<\/p>\n
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