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Originally Posted by Rerun
Nope. There are lots of things I don't like about Harper either.... but at least I believe he is in it for the good of the country... something I don't believe in Igantieff.
I also believe that Paul Martin was a better man than Brian Mulrooney. I liked Martin. Mulrooney I dislike. PET I hate. He was an arrogant sob. Joe Clarke was incompetent.
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See, I'm pretty confused by that.
Person A walks away from 150,000 dollars a year in salary to change careers and go into politics, and he's "not in it for the good of the country."
Person B spends his entire career in politics--literally from his 20s to the present, to the point that it would be fair to say that he only knows how to run for office--and he's "in it for the good of the country."
I happen to think both men are basically sincere and good people who honestly believe they have good ideas about government. But the character assassination when it comes to Ignatieff is just strange to me.
Why not just say that you don't like his ideas? To me that's way more legitimate than saying he has secret ulterior motives because he's "not one of us." Ignatieff is one of us. Moving around for work is something that Canadian professionals do
all the time. If we don't trust people who pursue careers in other countries, we're eliminating some of the most talented people from the pool.