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I don't know why or how you continue to be in love with Ford.He was possibly the better of two bad choices.The Toronto press had a great love-in for him and Ford-nation.Such clap-trap.
He shoots off from his mouth without the semblance of a thought travelling through his mind.What has he actually accomplished for Toronto in the past 15 months?His fawning acolytes are deserting in droves, the press is out for his hide, and lots there is.
Do you still swoon for him?
The media these days are comprised of knuckleheads totally unqualified to perform the jobs for which they are hired.
And now the former Harper chief-of-staff, Ian Brodie, 2006 - 2008, refers to the robo-call scandal as on a scale he's never seen before and warrants a "huge investigation."
Politics has always been a dirty game. We are fortunate to have had as a part of our recent history the man with the obsession, Pierre Elliot Trudeau. You got this one right.
But spare the praise for the third rate mediocrity that comprises the majority of elected officials
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I publish the comment to indicate a shallow grasp of my comments on Toronto's mayoralty politics. Which continue to fascinate me.
Obviously I am not a Toronto voter. Clearly I do not discern good or bad between city policies. I 'm not even sure how the city council functions.
Last week I used the term alderman. Somebody pointed out it hadn't been used for years.This is just a conversation going on here.
Thanks for engaging, by the way.
I pick up bits and pieces of headlines. I have a scant understanding of Rob Ford's reputation. I think anybody who pays the slightest attention must know as much.
What I am talking about here is the reality of politics. Not the theory. Not the propaganda.Not the stuff people toss about who know naught of what they speak.
It's about how people respond to the deluge of impressions during an election campaign. Their amazing capacity to see through the swirling fog deliberately created by many forces in motion jockeying to promote their powerful separate and selfish interests.
Rob Ford is real.
Unlike David Miller,private school graduate and lawyer pretending to be one of the people.
On whose watch, the multi-million dollar computer scandal took place but no finger of blame ever attached. Spending thirteen million tax dollars on the Bellamy Commission of Public Inquiry, took him nicely off the hook.
Who expressed regret that Candidate Adam Giambrone was obliged to retire from the Mayoralty race because of lies and other conduct unbecoming.
Rob Ford is what he appears to be. There is no artifice. He is nobody's image of an erudite, intelligent, well-educated, lovable and charming rascal.
Toronto voters had a choice of candidates. I saw no signs of a love-in for Ford. Quite the opposite. I saw a red faced, perspiring candidate deal with the collective pig-sticking that went on around and directed straight at him.
Did he march in the Gay Pride Parade. No, he did not. And neither would I.
The Toronto Star went abroad to dig up dirt. In Florida, years ago, he was stopped for a traffic offence. In a search a doobie was found in his pocket.He wasn't dealing it. He wasn't smoking it. He wasn't charged with possession.
But Oh My Lord, there went that bad lad Ford again.
Any student of politics would turn their attention to the question of what his election said about the people of Toronto.
What did they see in him, they didn't see in other candidates. Especially, George Smitherman the only other real contender?
I think, since the election, they have seen a man humbled by having been chosen to be Mayor of a very important city,doing the best he knows how, to live up to that honour and trust.
I believe ordinary people in Toronto identify with Rob Ford. They are rooting for him to succeed. They will give him a fair chance.
In spite of, or maybe because of, the sophisticates who long ago decided he was not good enough. A man like that can't possibly be good enough to be the Mayor of Toronto.
Just who is it that is good enough?
Who are the "third rate mediocrity that comprise the majority of elected officials " in the "dirty game of politics"
Well bless your heart, they are people just like yourself, doing the best they can, in a tricky enterprise that nothing prepares you for until you dive in, fully clothed, head first, sink or swim.
I will certainly spare the praise. I know better than to urge anybody else how to come to my judgement I need my resources to account for my own decisions.
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