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Election 2008: Sincerity, intelligence not enough for Dion
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This article has a pretty good analysis on Dion's leadership performance:
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20080918/electionblog_oliver_080920/20080921?s_name=election2008&no_ads=

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Craig's List: Sincerity, intelligence not enough for Dion
Updated Sun. Sep. 21 2008 12:33 PM ET

Craig Oliver, Chief Political Correspondent

Many Liberals believe the problem with their campaign began on Dec. 2, 2006 in Montreal. The intervention this week by the two runners-up to that leadership convention spoke volumes about the decision Liberals had made.

The appearance of the two stars, Michael Ignatieff and Bob Rae, left the beleaguered Stephane Dion suffering by comparison. There was a telling moment on Thursday when the Liberal leader was fumbling for an answer to a question about Gerry Ritz, and Ignatieff stepped in, skewering the agriculture minister and shredding his boss, the prime minister.

Likewise, the day before, Rae had jumped in when Dion was having trouble with answers to questions about the deficit and the economy.

But even the two Liberal heavyweights cannot turn this into a winning campaign. All of the polls are strikingly consistent. And if those in Quebec are correct, the Liberal party is reduced to redoubts in downtown Toronto, downtown Montreal, Atlantic Canada and a scattering of support in the West. That is no formula to win the country.

The mission of the duo is not to save Dion; it is to save the Liberal party. Holding the Conservatives to a minority would give the party the chance for a new contest for the unenviable job of rebuilding it from the ground up.

Mr. Dion can try to shift the Green Shift, but he cannot escape personal responsibility for insisting on its inclusion in the campaign. His key advisors, while supporting the policy, opposed the timing during a period of volatility and uncertainty in the energy and financial markets.

Every day now, the talk is of the team calling the attention of voters to its bench strength. Across the country, in four provinces last week, I failed to see Dion's name on any lawn signs -- his photograph was nowhere.

It is not enough to speak of Mr. Dion's sincerity and intelligence -- these are Job One in anyone's application to be prime minister. With the best efforts in the world, Mr. Dion does not possess the natural attributes of personality and character that are shared by all of the successful national leaders I have ever met. He does possess a cranky integrity, but he lacks the easy warmth, humour, and natural self-confidence of a John Diefenbaker, or a Jean Chretien, or even -- and some will be surprised -- Pierre Trudeau. Kim Campbell, who took the Conservative party over the highest cliff of its history, was at least charming and charismatic.

Dion lacks the theatricality of a stage performer that allows successful politicians to hold an audience. His efforts at rhetoric are stiff and uncomfortable, the speeches too long, slipping too easily into professorial dissertations which leave his audiences restless and fidgety in their seats.

The partisan crowds want what they have always wanted: red meat.

Any military trainer will tell you that nothing can replace the experience of real combat conditions. Harper, who has been battling through his third campaign, and I forget how many leadership races, has plenty of that.

Up against that, Liberals hope there is an unspoken animosity toward Harper, so deep underground it won't appear until election night -- when, they believe, Canadians will choose the Dion team, which is now on centre stage. The problem, however, is that the man at the centre of the centre is the wrong man.


September 22, 2008 | 3:36 PM Comments  1 comments

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October 31, 2008 | 4:12 AM
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I can’t believe American citizens will not used their heads in casting their votes. I am getting so anxious because it’s less than one week until Election Day. Whoever we elect as president will be representing us for at least the next four years. One aspect of the election race that I have never paid any attention to are the “political polls,” which flood news broadcasts on TV and online. The polls always sound official, and are supposedly conducted by reputable news sources like the Associated Press, NBC, CBS, ABC, and Reuters. What most people don’t realize is that a poll that indicates that two-thirds of Americans support Barack Obama could be completely inaccurate. Obama lacks political experience, has an extremely left-wing socialist agenda, and even wants to eliminate financial choices like cash advance stores. I’m sure more than one-third of Americans realize Obama’s shortcomings, but the two-thirds that the poll is talking about, represents two-thirds of that particular poller’s viewing audience—not the nation as a whole. Get it now? So, when casting your vote, don’t believe everything you hear on TV or read in the paper; get the real information about the candidates.

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