The Secret Diary of Stephen Harper: The Land of Oz is Strong

Friday, October 10, 2008

The Land of Oz is Strong

You know, friends, Hallowe'een is coming, and the kids were asking about costumes. Well, we just watched the Wizard of Oz, and I said, sometimes on the campaign, I feel like Dorothy on the way to the Emerald City, having to drag along the the Scarecrow (Stéphane Dion), the Cowardly Lion (Jack Layton) and the Tin Woodsman (Gilles Duceppe), not forgetting Toto (Elizabeth May, in the basket, out of the picture).

Here are some movie stills to show you what I mean. Pretty scary similarities, eh?

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)