The Secret Diary of Stephen Harper: George W. Bush to Run for Third Term

Sunday, September 16, 2007

George W. Bush to Run for Third Term

Laureen saw this story at Loblaws and rushed back to tell me. I just called him on Blackberry #1 and the rumours are true - Dubya is staying on for another term. After all FDR did it in wartime too. That makes me think, why don't we have this kind of hard-hitting journalism in Canada. If the Toronto Star were to lighten up a bit, and become a tabloid, they'd be a lot more fun to read in the checkout line. As it is, reading the Red Star is a bit like going to a prayer breakfast when you've got serious jet lag.

Talk Tough Like Mike

•“Look, this is America and you have to decide what kind of country you want. This is your country as much as it is mine.” - 2004
*"Look, if I lose, I'll just move back to Massachusetts." - to the Harvard Crimson newspaper - 2006
*“If you mess with me, I’ll mess with you until I’m done.”
• "You're looking at someone who turned down the chance to become Prime Minister of Canada, and I did so, in part, because I felt it would divide the country."
• “I don’t need any lessons in legitimacy from Harper.”
• “He knows where to find me.”
• "He's creating a parliamentary crisis and dividing the country."
• "It’s his budget, not mine."
• "It's up to Harper to make the right decision and up to me to decide if he made it."
• "We're putting the government on probation."
•"Mr. Harper, your time is up.”
*"This is a prime minister who a year ago was trying to make you embarrassed if you liked opera or classical music or the ballet or poetry. I mean, come on, let's get over this. You can like hockey, you can like classical music. Let's stop playing Canadian against Canadian and taste against taste."

The Susan Delacarte Stephen Harper Attack Thesaurus (Under Construction)