Get yer bets down on who wins tonight's Leadership debate
CountLothian @ Thu Aug 06, 2015 10:46 am
So any predictions about tonight's debate ?
Do you think Justin will surprise everyone with his laying out an economic platform , or is he still staying in the dark.lol
Will Mulcair knock em dead?
Harper has something to really lose this time, a majority government where he got to change the course of Canada at will.
Can Harper look like he really was a great Prime Minister .
Will they take shots at each below the belt.
Will May show up drunk? lol I'm sorry cheap shot but it's what i'm going to remember as..specifically timestamp 8:19
The poll is basic.
CountLothian @ Thu Aug 06, 2015 10:59 am
I voted Mulcair but I'm hoping Trudeau does something to surprise and shut up the Reformacons
Zipperfish @ Thu Aug 06, 2015 10:59 am
My prediction: Harper will call Trudeau's mom a crazy whore and Trudeau will punch his lights out.
CountLothian @ Thu Aug 06, 2015 11:00 am
Zipperfish Zipperfish:
My prediction: Harper will call Trudeau's mom a crazy whore and Trudeau will punch his lights out.
ROFLMAO...first real lol since i came back here..
I would love to see it happen ...just because.
DrCaleb @ Thu Aug 06, 2015 11:17 am
Zipperfish Zipperfish:
My prediction: Harper will call Trudeau's mom a crazy whore and Trudeau will punch his lights out.
Harper will call Trudeau just 'Justin', Justin will punch his light out; Mulcair will call May a slobbering drunk and Omar Khdar will punch his light out.
The next debate will start in The Octagon: Six enter, only one leaves!
CountLothian @ Thu Aug 06, 2015 11:48 am
DrCaleb DrCaleb:
Zipperfish Zipperfish:
My prediction: Harper will call Trudeau's mom a crazy whore and Trudeau will punch his lights out.
Harper will call Trudeau just 'Justin', Justin will punch his light out; Mulcair will call May a slobbering drunk and Omar Khdar will punch his light out.
The next debate will start in The Octagon: Six enter, only one leaves!
lol..
ahh man we're doomed.
I'm ruined.....politically I now say "UNCLE"
xerxes @ Thu Aug 06, 2015 12:46 pm
It'll be a draw just like the general election.
I'm actually a little annoyed that it's so early into the campaign. It's not even s week old and already there's a leaders debate. Unless there's going to be another one later?
Public_Domain @ Thu Aug 06, 2015 9:58 pm
Public_Domain @ Thu Aug 06, 2015 10:00 pm
PublicAnimalNo9 @ Thu Aug 06, 2015 10:31 pm
What truly depresses the hell out of me is that one of those 4 bozos will win the election.
martin14 @ Thu Aug 06, 2015 11:40 pm
PublicAnimalNo9 PublicAnimalNo9:
What truly depresses the hell out of me is that one of those 4 bozos will win the election.
You should be more happy.
Just think, you could have Renzi. Or Tsipras. Or Varoufuckis. Or Trump. Or Hillary.
Canadian politics may be boring, but much safer than some other possibilities, people out to destroy their countries.
Jabberwalker @ Fri Aug 07, 2015 3:24 am
... or Putin. Once you have elected a Putin or a Hitler, they are the damnest people to get rid of, afterwards.
The essence of our democracy isn't that we elect supermen. It's that we have the right to throw the bums out ... and we do just that, every once in a while.
OnTheIce @ Fri Aug 07, 2015 6:00 am
I think the standout from last night way Elizabeth May. She did quite well. Maybe it's because we don't see her much but I think she did better than most.
I think Harper came off as his usual cold/robotic self but he was well prepared and weathered the storm. I don't think he did anything bad or good.
Mulcair looked strange. It wasn't like Question Period. He couldn't get angry and he had to remain controlled. His smiles looked forced, like he was trying too hard.
Justin looked and sounded like an amateur. The way he talks may be good for a speech at a University, but it was brutally controlled & slow. His final remarks were like watching paint dry and even the moderator cut him off cause he thought he was done.
DrCaleb @ Fri Aug 07, 2015 6:09 am
OnTheIce OnTheIce:
I think the standout from last night way Elizabeth May. She did quite well. Maybe it's because we don't see her much but I think she did better than most.
I have to agree there. She sometimes wasn't forceful enough though. He voice doesn't carry when the other are ignoring her and talking over her questions.
OnTheIce OnTheIce:
Justin looked and sounded like an amateur. The way he talks may be good for a speech at a University, but it was brutally controlled & slow. His final remarks were like watching paint dry and even the moderator cut him off cause he thought he was done.
One thing that bothers me about public speakers is their use of words that have no meaning other than to say 'I'm not ready to speak, but I'm speaking anyhow'. "Ummm", "Aaaaaa", "Errrr"
Trudeau was quite liberal with these sounds. If anyone lost the debate, it was him.
Just think boys and girls, only 11 more weeks of this bullshit left!
DrCaleb @ Fri Aug 07, 2015 6:46 am
$1:
Stephen Harper and Elizabeth May prove adept at the TV reality of debates
Thursday's debate was what Canadians probably wanted: Just earnest enough, without American-style viciousness
. . .
At one point, after batting away the sputtering and outrage and posturing from the other podiums (Thomas Mulcair, in case you didn't know, authored "overarching sustainable development legislation" as a Quebec cabinet minister), Harper wrapped up some point or other, turned to his adversaries, cocked his shoulders, and grinned.
That grin seemed pretty real, especially next to Mulcair's rictus. A former prosecutor that man may be, and he does have the odd moment, but he looked like his face was going to melt under the studio lights.
Harper, though, wasn't even sweating. It's as though he'd realized that this whole give-and-take debate business, as much as it goes against his cellular structure, isn't so bad after all, especially in a field like last night's.
. . .
Actually, there were two really good performers up there last night: The Conservative leader and Elizabeth May, who heads a parliamentary caucus of herself (plus one), but who managed to play leader of the opposition.
May is brainy and wonky and thinks fast and speaks in whole sentences. She doesn't whinge; she is a remarkably fluid polemicist.
She was also the only one on stage who consistently referred to Stephen Harper as what he is: "Mr. Prime Minister." Good for her. Respect goes a long way in debate.
She did a neat job of gutting Harper's rote bragging about Canada's globally admired economy: You are cherry-picking your data, she informed him. Compared to other G7 countries, we are doing very poorly indeed: "We are in recession for the second time on your watch."
Thursday's debate was what Canadians probably wanted: Just earnest enough, without American-style viciousness
. . .
At one point, after batting away the sputtering and outrage and posturing from the other podiums (Thomas Mulcair, in case you didn't know, authored "overarching sustainable development legislation" as a Quebec cabinet minister), Harper wrapped up some point or other, turned to his adversaries, cocked his shoulders, and grinned.
That grin seemed pretty real, especially next to Mulcair's rictus. A former prosecutor that man may be, and he does have the odd moment, but he looked like his face was going to melt under the studio lights.
Harper, though, wasn't even sweating. It's as though he'd realized that this whole give-and-take debate business, as much as it goes against his cellular structure, isn't so bad after all, especially in a field like last night's.
. . .
Actually, there were two really good performers up there last night: The Conservative leader and Elizabeth May, who heads a parliamentary caucus of herself (plus one), but who managed to play leader of the opposition.
May is brainy and wonky and thinks fast and speaks in whole sentences. She doesn't whinge; she is a remarkably fluid polemicist.
She was also the only one on stage who consistently referred to Stephen Harper as what he is: "Mr. Prime Minister." Good for her. Respect goes a long way in debate.
She did a neat job of gutting Harper's rote bragging about Canada's globally admired economy: You are cherry-picking your data, she informed him. Compared to other G7 countries, we are doing very poorly indeed: "We are in recession for the second time on your watch."
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/stephen ... -1.3182495