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Little Big Man
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 Posted: 09/ 28/ 07 1:44 pm Post subject: The Agenda (TVO) - Steve Paikin Interview of Paul McKeever |
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Steve Paikin's interview of Freedom Party leader Paul McKeever is now online on TVO's "The Agenda" website:
http://www.tvo.org/cfmx/tvoorg/theagenda/index.cfm?page_id=864
Paikin has interviewed each party leader (with the exception of Howard Hampton, who will be interviewed soon), and every interview is available online at the link above.
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 Electric GulagJoined: 01 Dec 2006 Total posts: 863 Gender: Unknown
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| Posted: 09/ 28/ 07 3:18 pm Post subject: |
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| Paul did a great job. I'll be voting for Family Coalition, but the Freedom Party is another good choice. |
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Little Big Man
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| Posted: 09/ 28/ 07 4:20 pm Post subject: |
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| Electric Gulag wrote: | | Paul did a great job. I'll be voting for Family Coalition, but the Freedom Party is another good choice. |
McGuinty and Tory provided the sleep-eeze sort of discussion that has served the insomniac community so well for so many years. They were the only two not to wear a tie while being interviewed by a man in a tie. Bad form...and Tory wore the wrong sort of collar if he wanted to go without tie....none of which is to say that whether or not they wear a tie is the big issue...but it isn't without substance, either.
No Hampton yet, but I understand he will be interviewed soon.
I watched all of the videos. I thought Giuseppe Gori held up well. His is a difficult party to sell to an Ontario electorate, but he had some interesting observations about how a party like his is not all that far off of, say, a US social conservative party, in terms of policy.
Elizabeth Rowley was good at sparring with Paikin, though she took a trip into lulu-ville with the denial that Stalin killed millions. Apart from that, she answered fair questions fairly, and refused properly to answer loaded questions.
de Jong did a good job of making the Green Party platform look somehow not insane...until he suggested that people wouldn't die tying themselves to Greenpeace boat props if MMP (or was it: having one Green MPP) was in place. Nutty. And, in my view, the most honest view of what's really creeping around in that guy's head.
Sam Apelbaum (Libertarian) is a nice man, but appears completely defeated, essentially taking credit for turning the Libertarian party away from electoral politics and toward navel gazing.
Elaine Butson - who is a nice lady - nonetheless demonstrated that CoR is an electorally dead relic. Are they even running candidates in 2007?
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nickjbor
Joined: 12 Mar 2004 Total posts: 8763 Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada Age: 25 Gender: Male
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| Posted: 09/ 28/ 07 4:23 pm Post subject: |
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there's a CoR?
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Little Big Man
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| Posted: 09/ 28/ 07 4:34 pm Post subject: |
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| nickjbor wrote: | | there's a CoR? |
Yep. It's - I think - the last remnant of the old Confederation of Regions Party that did okay in various provinces a couple of decades back (Elmer Knutson's party).
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| Electric Gulag Joined: 01 Dec 2006 Total posts: 863 Gender: Unknown
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| Posted: 09/ 28/ 07 4:45 pm Post subject: |
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I watched them all too. I thought that McGuinty was very good also. But Paikin was soft-balling him on alot of stuff. Tory looked like crap, trying to sell his faith-based promise as something he believes in "principle"- he didn't convince me (one sympathetic to the PC party) at all- I can only imagine how neutral voters viewed him. Paul McKeever did the best of the lot: he was articulate, and actually suspended my disbelief for the time he was being interviewed that his ideas actually might work- very strong communicator. Family Coalition leader was okay, but I found his communication skills to be wanting at times.
The Greens' DeJeong actually really disappointed me. He came accross to me as being really nutty. He was effeminate, spacy, and looks like a guy that lived in a hippie-commune about 40 years ago, and now he's trying to go mainstream. I can't believe that clown might get 10% of the vote. We are in real trouble if that's the state of affairs...
The communist party leader was a joke- her denial of Stalin's killings as "propaganda" was very unconvincing.
The other fringe parties were a complete write-off. That C.O.R. lady was on another planet. and the Libertarian guy looked like he was on prozac. |
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| OC Joined: 16 Jan 2004 Total posts: 2476 Gender: Male
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| Posted: 09/ 28/ 07 10:12 pm Post subject: |
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Excellent interview.
I especially liked this part:
Steve Paikin: What do we owe each other?
Paul McKeever: We owe each other respect for one another's life, liberty and property. And that means that we don't turn each other into a source of living. In other words, if we have things that we'd like to use, consume, enjoy in life, we have to have responsibility enough to take the actions necessary to purchase those things ourselves.
It's not to say that you can't choose to help people out; there's nothing wrong with charity. But when charity comes at the point of a gun, that's no longer kindness. That's theft.
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| j0hnfars0n Joined: 20 May 2007 Total posts: 63 Gender: Unknown
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| Posted: 09/ 28/ 07 10:48 pm Post subject: |
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I thought Paul was great...really articulate.
Sam Apelbaum was horrible...I've never seen him speak before but, if that was typical, can't fathom how he's been their leader for the past four elections. |
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| Posted: 10/ 02/ 07 12:28 pm Post subject: |
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About this communist piece of scum I just saw on the video - How do people get away with denying Communist holocausts and there is no uproar? It is unbelievable. I certainly believe in free speech on any issue, but where are the typical groups who jump up and down (rightfully) about denial of nazi or turkish made holocausts?
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| Posted: 10/ 02/ 07 2:42 pm Post subject: |
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| Can (will) McKeever take his riding ? |
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| OC Joined: 16 Jan 2004 Total posts: 2476 Gender: Male
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| Posted: 10/ 03/ 07 9:14 am Post subject: |
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| j0hnfars0n wrote: | I thought Paul was great...really articulate.
Sam Apelbaum was horrible...I've never seen him speak before but, if that was typical, can't fathom how he's been their leader for the past four elections. |
I agree. Appelbaum didn't seem too enthusiastic. |
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