Election fever

Yes! Voting cards! I have one now and it's weird cuz I'm so used to just seeing my mom having one. I watched most of the debate (missed the first 15 minutes) tonight and it was funny how everyone kept accusing Harper of screwing up royally on so many things, which was expected because well, he did screw up a lot of things. Maybe it was just me but Harper seemed kind of... smug the whole time. I guess it was good that he brushed off their accusations but it was kinda, "Hehe, whatever. Losers."

I also didn't know that Harper made into law this thing of a set election date and how he totally turned it around. Here's a neat little video I found that explains it very easily:

Are You Ready for Another Election?


As for the rest of the candidates, I think they realize none of them besides Stephane Dion have a chance of winning. I like Jack Layton; he seems like a cool guy and if I remember correctly, saw him walking at Pride last year. I think he's a good speaker and would run the country quite well. The only thing is, like the other parties, not enough people believe in his party to get enough votes.

I hadn't seen Elizabeth May prior to this, so I didn't know how well she would do up against four other men, but I found her to be really technical, which I thought was great. I love how she called out Harper and how some of his "achievements to environment" were "fraud". She spent a lot of time being objective about issues and it was only towards the end that she started saying, "This is what the Green Party will do." But yeah. Very technical and interesting.

I don't have much to say about Dion other than that he seems like a sensitive man, addressing each of the people in the video questions by name and looking right at the camera. He did a lot of heat from Jack Layton and how the Liberals shouldn't be accusing Harper of not keeping promises when they themselves haven't (ie. lowering taxes, more pharamacare, etc.), and their streak of non-promising really made me question the Liberals.

Anyway. That's just my commentary of how things went. I don't know if you guys care or not but I had to type it out somewhere. One of these days, I want to do more research into party platforms (apparently Harper doesn't even have one. Wtf?) as well as criticisms.

How's life with the rest of you? School making you crazy? What're you guys doing this weekend, or possibly next weekend? Shall we plan something crazy?



Aaron