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Originally Posted by Iowa_Flames_Fan
Here's the second funniest part of your post:
MP Salary: 155,400.
Full Professor at Harvard: varies, but well in excess of 250,000 USD. Plus consulting income, income from books and lecture tours--probably well in excess of 300,000 USD a year.
Those must have been some nice plums that the "Liberal Moneymen" offered him to make up for what amounts to more than a $150,000 pay cut for Ignatieff.
But the funniest part is this: Ignatieff actually came back to Canada before he went into politics. In 2005 he accepted a job at the U of T, and at a Toronto policy center. He became an MP in 2006. Now, it's pretty clear that running for office was on his radar. It's equally clear that he had a back-up plan in place for staying in Toronto should politics not work out.
But please, carry on with the nativist nonsense. Because the thing is, even if your allegations were in line with the facts, they still wouldn't add up to a good reason not to vote for him. It just seems a little... desperate to me. Like you know you haven't got a leg to stand on, so you lean on the nearest emotional hot button and hope it never stops working.
There are a lot of things I don't love about Ignatieff. He's professorial, he's a bit inexperienced politically--which is a big disadvantage when your opponent is a seasoned operator like Harper--and he doesn't seem to have a very effective communications strategy.
But criticizing him because he worked at Harvard for a while? I'm sorry--but that's just dumb.
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hmmmm.... University teacher.... or Prime Minister of Canada? Which should I chose? Grandpa was a Russian Duke.... can't be that anymore... I guess the next best thing is running a whole country... even if it is Canada.
How should I do it? Come back to Canada and go straight into politics?.... nope that wouldn't look too good (been away for 30 years)... maybe I should get a job there first and then go into politics... besides the Liberal party has a leader right now and I can't exactly go in there and ask him to leave because I want his job. Yep... thats the plan... go to Canada, get a job there for the first time in 30 years, work there for a few months, and THEN take over the leadership of the Liberal party and wait for the unwashed, uneducated masses to elect me to my rightful place... Prime Minister!
.... after all, being Prime Minister is WAY BETTER than being some obsolete Russian duke. Prime Minister's have power! They get to travel all over the place and hob nob with Presidents and Kings and Queens, they get to have their own army and airforce and navy.
Grandpa Duke Ignatieff would have been proud of me. Poor Russian rich kid makes good!