You have to admit, Little Boy Blue got a lot of attention from the media with his speech to the conservative convention recently. It was neither modesty nor myopia, nor missing his glasses that caused his eyes to appear to be squinting. It was the placement of the teleprompter screens. Pierre Poilievre was standing on a platform about 30 centimeters (12 inches) above the floor. The teleprompter screens were attached to the top edges of that riser and can be on two or all sides. It takes a lot of practice to make that arrangement work well.
But no matter how he blew his horn though, his message was mean, nasty and counterproductive to good government for Canada. I think I lost interest in the content of his speech and was more interested in his taking a misstep and falling off that riser. With the luck liberals have been having lately, there were likely people in the front row of that quadrangle prepared to catch him.
But why would the party be so busy with new types of teleprompters, redesigning the party logo and producing professional, image-softening commercials of Poilievre and his wife and kids. If they don’t like how he dresses or his haircut, you would think they would also want someone that people can like.
Poilievre built his reputation as an attack dog over the years in parliament. This guy has devoted his entire life to becoming prime minister of Canada. You would think that if getting to that position was his objective, that he would want people to think of him as competent. He might also talk about how he is going to help people. Who would believe a person who promotes Bitcoin just before the flaky promotion crashed and investors lost millions.
He spends many hours of his day complaining about Justin Trudeau but rarely tells anyone what he would do differently. He builds on animosity and hatred instead of trust and acceptance. And if everything in Canada is broken, as he claims, how does he think he can fix it? We have heard nothing but complaints and claims that it is all the present government’s fault. The few answers he approves of are from the extreme right wing of his party. I think Little Boy Blue should go blow his horn elsewhere.
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