It must have been aggravating for Harper-haters the way the guy kept turning up in Vancouver, every time there was a limelight to hog.
He seems to have spent the entire closing weekend zeroing in on events in which Canada had a chance at a medal, securing a spot in the stands where the camera would be able to get a glimpse of him and transmit it to the audience of potential voters, catching them when they were feeling all patriotic and had their anti-Ottawa guard down.
Harper was everywhere. Lord knows what squadrons of RCMP types were required to clear the roads and ferry him from venue to venue so he could get within camera range before viewers headed off for more nachos. No wonder security cost $1-billion. In addition to erecting a border ban on every mildly objectionable academic twit who’d ever unleashed a stream of Marxist claptrap, they had to plot out moment-by-moment transport plans so the Prime Minister could get to his next seat within five minutes of leaving his last one.
No doubt it annoyed the hell out of Liberals, especially Michael Ignatieff, as he watched the game at Stornoway, sipping a stiff tea and murmuring “onward squadron!” at the tube, once he figured out which was us and which was them. (It had to be particularly grating that Jack Layton had managed to squeeze his way to the front of the bar at Gretzky’s in Toronto, so that every time CTV flashed to the inebriated crowds, there was Jack, front and centre, draped in red and grinning to beat the band).
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And just think-most, if not all , of the events Harper attended were won by Canadians. So how did he arrange that?
Good question, Horny Toad! Our Prime Minister went to the games and he attended with enthusiasm and Churchill class. Jack Laydown almost knocked a lady fan unconscious to get his nasty mug on T.V. Something that the Prime Minister would never do; funny how Jacko gets a pass on this yet nobody could even imagine the Prime Minister ever doing anything like that.
I really enjoyed the Winter Olympics – Campbell going ballistic at times was a hoot. Guess he didn’t learn his lesson in Hawaii. I enjoyed watching and I am very proud of all our medals – esp the Gold medals. Canada is proving that we can play to win. I like that; and the fact that there were no sore losers that I saw.