Stephen Harper, speaking to reporters in St. John’s on Friday about events in Egypt:
“We want to see free and fair elections. We want to see the rule of law and stability. We want to see respect for human rights, including the rights of minorities, including the rights of religious minorities, and we want to see a government that will continue to respect peace treaties and seek peace in the Middle East. As I say, we are all seeing what’s happening. A transition is taking place in Egypt. In my judgement, there is no going back. I think the old expression is ‘they’re not going to put the toothpaste back in the tube on this one.'”
NDP foreign affairs critic Paul Dewar wasted little time in expressing his displeasure with the statement:
“I think it’s indicative of how this government treats foreign affairs,” Dewar told CTV’s Question Period. “Most importantly, on this file, we just had the parliamentary secretary talk about the importance of democracy. We had democracy happening on the streets and overthrowing repressive government, and this government talks about toothpaste…
Seriously.
Paul Dewar sounds like he is living in an altered state.
It’s not the best brand of toothpaste, but it’s better than all the others that have been tried.
TalibaNDP Dewar: Lessons from.
“We had democracy happening on the streets and overthrowing repressive government,”.
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“What lessons from Mohammedan Egypt?
No change in Mohammedan Egypt. No hope in Mohammedan Egypt.
Same old, same old in Mohammedan Egypt : Mohammed’s military dictatorship.
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“Egypt’s military rejects swift transfer of power”
“The Guardian – 44 minutes ago”
“The Egyptian military has rejected the demands of pro-democracy protesters for a swift transfer of power to a civilian administration, saying it intends to rule by martial law until elections are held.”
(al-googoonews)
Exactly when did democracy come from mobs in the street? Regime change comes that way to make it possible for democracy to take root. As I heard one commentator, “Egypt hasn’t had democracy for 4000 years”. We can only hope true democracy takes hold and the people chose a moderate government that will work for the good of the Egyptian people.
When is SunTV going on air?
Paul Dewar appears not to know much about anything and certainly not the use of an analogy to illustrate a political point in everyday language. He should stick to gargling.
And yet more from Cloud Cuckoo Land: at the moment the CBC is resolutely refusing to carry Giles Duceppe’s blackmail note—pay up $5B or there’ll be an election, unlike all the other news services and sites—and is instead telling us that Duceppe got “landslide approval” from the Bloc delegates at their convention.
I agree with our PM about what we want to see. While it is possible, it is not probable anytime in the near future. As for the NDP tool, as usual he and his party remain clueless. The NDP foreign policy consists of marching with and supporting Hezbollah and all other terrorist groups.
Rick:
In France?
It seems Paul has been squeezed a little too tightly…
And now you know why the NDP are in a furious battle for 3rd place with the Greens. Ekos: NDP @ 14.2 % vs Greens @ 10.7 %,even with the margin of error it is still funny.
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more smoke & mirrors from the pink panther party.
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I sometimes wonder how there can be that many NDP supporters. So often they and their party seem too stupid to find their way down the birth canal.
Even more disgusting than the NDP party of lunatics is the fact that there are even stupider people out there that vote for them.
syf, yes, for a short time until Robespierre’s boys took over and then the guillotine reigned.
Ditto for Russia, first the Provisional government for almost eight months and then Lenin’s Cheka death squads and Gulags.
Like the rest of the NDP cabal, Dewar seems to quite exceptional at plumbing the depths of terminal stupidity.
Dewar does seem to be a special case.
Paul Dewar must have flunked English.
All the foolish are lining up to appear part of the shiny new adventure — so they will be wearing it when it turns into something much different.
greyburr, as long as the BQ is around, the NDP can only dream of fighting it out for 3rd.
Which leads me to wonder – does the NDP get points for soldiering on in the face of irrelevancy or do they lose them for being too stupid to know they’re irrelevant?
When the news is actually reported, the dipper in question, comes across like a nutbar. What will actually be reported will be something very different from what was actually said.
Does anybody know when Fox North is coming on line?
Deep thinkers those NDP Bolsheviks. What a bunch of loons.
Simpson at the Globe tells the big lie and hides it in a question:
“Why did Ottawa drag its feet on Mubarak?”
We’re supposed to just swallow the idea that they dragged their feet, and wonder why, instead of asking if his assertion is correct.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/opinion/why-did-ottawa-drag-its-feet-on-mubarak/article1904399/comments/
I have tried to find something of substance in Paul Dewar’s comments over the years and have found them to be increasingly inocuous as time passes.
“Shirley” as Leslie Neilson has uttered, Jack Layton is not depending on Mr. Dewar to be part of the foundation for the NDP “viable alternative”. Cheers;
Abe Froman: “Paul Dewar sounds like he is living in an altered state.”
Check out his hairdo. He is.
Ken (Kulak): ” … Paul Dewar appears not to know much about anything …”
Guess what, Ken? Paul Dewar is someone’s kid. His mother is the late Marion Dewar, who was a prominent member of the New Democratic Party (NDP), mayor of Ottawa from 1978 to 1985, and an NDP MP from 1986 to 1988.
‘Figures, eh?
There are no words.
Toothpaste? Democracy?
IQ tests for politicians, please.
Even more disturbing and revealing is that Dewar Teed off on Taber and Olly’s personal outrage over Harper’s Toothpaste analogy, which also makes him a CTV and PPG stooge and Idiot servant.
Sun TV when?
Figures is right and not surprising. I guess those of us in the hinterland are not always up to date on the inter generational power seeking structures.
There are doers and then there is Dewar. He is a light weight who seems to have little knowledge of his file. PMSH’s reactions to the events in Egypt seem entirely appropriate and much better than the confused reaction we have observed from President Obama and his cabal of nitwits.
The knee jerk response to every one of PMSH’s utterances only reflects their- can I say it- intolerance to any viewpoint other than their own.
This seems to be reflected in the NDP’s rather less than robust poll numbers. Say goodnight Jack. No. Stay.
There is Dewar’s and then the Ottawa’s Dewars. The first is best savoured in a cut glass neat with no ice. The second should be ignored.
Sun TV News is scheduled to launch sometime next month. I think I read somewhere that it’s March 11, but I’m not sure about that.
Personally I would like to see lots and lots more of Paul Dewar making a frickin’ muppet of himself in public. And by extension the whole NDPee party.
More speech! Louder!
Dewar……Bill off Blue Collar Comedy has a saying for gross stupidity…here’s your sign. Canada has…here’s Dewar.
As Bugs would say, “What an ignoranimus and maroon”!
set you free
[…….Rick:
In France?…….]
Actually the Paris mob overthrew several interim governments. When they took to the streets to oveethrow “Le committee”, that body called out the army……A corsican artillery officer made history…ordered grape shot….then said…”preparE, AimeE, feu” and the revolution was over.
All street mob overthrows get high-jacked by autocrats……
Eygpt sorely needs a Napolean….not a Lenin or a Fidel.
I wouldn’t know about Paul Dewar’s NDP lineage if I hadn’t lived in Ottawa, Ken.
But, there you are. The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.
So to the leftards democracy is equal to the military being in control of the state, cool I look forward to their “FORM” of democracy.
So far all that’s really changed is Hosni’s phone number.
I don’t claim to know much about the situation in Egypt and obviously I hope for the best of all possible outcomes (I don’t even know what the posible outcomes might be). But these left-wingers simply don’t know what “democracy” means, although they claim to adore it. Any riot does not equal a democratic uprising. I mean, would Paul Dewar be thrilled if he were violently turfed out of office by a mob?
Dewar is such a colossal A-hole, a useful idiot in the media’s ongoing campaign to get the Troika “back to power”, and continue the perpetual media narrative of all negative all the time. The “Liberal” media, the NDP, “Liberals” and Separatists are all in agreement in they’re demands that PM Harper should be behaving like a lunatic and dancing in the streets. The rational, even handed response from the PM and the Government enrages the opposition dipshits and the media, the question is, why?
as a lad mr dewar obviously ran head on into the
‘pepsodent shield’…
innaresting to hear he’s mommy’s little helperprotoge’…these NDP people disgust me…
lookout:
I think Bugs would have called him either an “ignoranimus” or a “moroon”, but not both. Succinctness was an essential part of his charm.
heh… one more example PMSH’s acumen… he well knows that Mubarak’s departure does not equal a swell of grassroots democracy. Only the morons who haven’t been paying attention to history would think that Egypt is headed for a period of free elections, unicorns and pixie dust. Getting all emotional about people power in Egypt betrays nothing more than sheer stupidity. There is no such thing.
Meet the new president, same as the old president (and that is the best the Egyptians can hope for – none of the alternatives are better than Mubarak). Is it great? Not from our insular, self-centered, feel-good western point of view, but since the world isn’t the wonderful, lets-all-be-friends place of rainbows and skittles, Harper has shown the most rational reaction. Certainly more rational than any other politician in the entire western civilisation. Considering he was right when the economy tanked, on Israel, and other matters… I’ll go with him rather than retards like any NDP member or voter, or Obambi.
batb @ 6:35 PM.
Just entered the thread now, but like you, my first impression was his just-stepped-out-of-the-shower do(doo)! A light-weight heel-nipper, nothing more.
Tangentally, makes me think of the ridiculous coiffure being sported by captain Dion Phaneuf(already!) of the Maple Leafs- I mean, how old are you anyway? Ten??
And in full disclosure, It’s me…an absolute dyed-in-the-wool fledgling Leaf zealot of the days of the Big M (Mahovlich)’s Calder Trophy win in ’58 (when we got our first B&W TV), through the glory years of the 60’s (5 cups), and the subsequent 40-some years of aimless wandering in the desert.
Now, how did we get here- in the desert? Oh yeah, it’s the hair..
Nice to see all the smelly old hippies in their Che and Castro T-shirts raving about the wonders of democracy.
Peter O’Donnell sums it up perfectly. The military seems to be coming out of the shadows and reestablishing its control.
For the Egyptians, the hard work is still to come, I hope but am not hopeful that someone will rise to the occasion to lead them into a secular representative democracy, and not stay beyond a couple of terms as president…
“Eygpt sorely needs a Napolean…”
Napoleon was in Egypt as part of his World War 0 campaign.
It’s true, they have not had a democracy in 4000+ years of history. It’s overdue.
Harper’s comments are more appropriate than the inconsistent statements from Obama and crew that destabilized the situation and were inappropriate in calling on Mubarak to quit with no suggestion of what could fill the vacuum. The idea of a constitution has no meaning to him.
The G20 rioters and black bloc no doubt wish Obama would notice them next time.
lookout:
I think Bugs would have called him either an “ignoranimus” or a “moroon”, but not both. Succinctness was an essential part of his charm.
Posted by: RSP at February 13, 2011 9:16 PM
Sorry, RSP, but Bugs, in fact, has used both. God bless the interwebz for the ability to look up useless trivia. 😉
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_Kh7nLplWo
Colin in Mission BC:
Of course Bugs has used both words, but in the same sentence? Somehow, connecting two insults with “and”, especially when the insults are basically the same, seems un-Bugs-like to me. I think he would have fired once and moved on.
Colin in Mission BC:
I stand corrected. (I replied to your post before viewing your link.)
“Dewar does seem to be a special case.”
“I wouldn’t know about Paul Dewar’s NDP lineage if I hadn’t lived in Ottawa, Ken.”
Paul Dewar has three strikes against him:
1. He’s a Knee-Dipper.
2. He’s from Ottawa.
3. He’s Paul Dewar.