[Maritime Q-Scout]

I caught the end of the debates. Here's a few things that I noticed:


HOLY NATURAL EYE CONTACT BATMAN!!! I've never seen a debate on TV where all 4 participants freaked you out by staring directly into the camera and never blinking!

Duceppe: Annoyed me the least, as he seemed to be the most natural on stage despite having a French-English dictionary in front of him, and looking up every fourth word... how sad is that?

Layton: Read his closing statement word for word off the page infront of him, did your mommy write it for you?

Martin: I could understand what he was trying to say, but I'm a poli sci major working on a masters in public admin. I could finish his thoughts, but could Joe Blow Canadian? He got way to flustered with each question

Harper: move your upper arms, you'll look like you're speaking naturally. Otherwise you look like a robot under strict orders to smile when you finish every answer. His smile looked more fake than Pam Anderson's breasts. Also... is his hair plastic?


Just a few non-verbal things I picked up, that drove me completely insane. What's sad is if there was ONE charasmatic leader running he/she would have no problem trouncing the opposition and forming a large majority government. Even if their policy was to hang every white male in the county, then invade the USA and do the same to them.

While Martin and Harper are possibly two of the best policy guys in Canada today, neither are overly charasmatic and moving. Neither captivate a crowd, and neither will leave a leagacy for the Canadian people. No offense to either, I think both have very strong postive aspects about them (like them or no, they both have done some pretty great things for this country).

But really, can no party afford a public speaking coach? They're driving people like me insane. I just helped organize a high school debating competition last weekend, there were 14 year olds that would have mopped the floor with any of them.

That said, remember to vote... then again if you're reading this thread I'm probably preaching to the choir.

/end rant