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Friday, October 10, 2008
Liveblogging from Harper's Toronto rally
I'm here at Harper's big Toronto send-off. This is an all GTA event. Brampton-Springdale's Parm Gill seems to have the largest group here. Roughly a thousand people here so far and more streaming in.
I'll be live blogging the speech and any candidates I can get on record.
One thing, Ive asked a couple Toronto campaign managers about the reaction they're getting to Harper's criticism of Dion's three questions gaffe. I was suspecting that they would have got a lot of angry calls. So far not a single one. Here in Liberal Toronto, the media might think it's a game loser - voters on the other hand don't seem to care.
Good lord there are cheerleaders.
More to come.
7:00 - still no sign of Harper. Also Craig Oliver is Jack Layton short.
7:30 - Harper is on stage. The crowd is chanting 'leadership'
7:37 - boos for Dion have started.
7:40 - an attack on the US for mis managing the economy.
7:50 - a mention of the Dion gaffe - big laughs. 'Dion couldn't say what he wanted to do for the economy even though he had a long time to think about it'
8:00 - the event has wrapped up. He closed by framing the ballot question as 'a choice between a plan that already exists and is working vs an opposition plan that changed mid campaign'.
The speech included about 10% more empathy. 2 mentions of his mother.
Posted by Robert Jago on October 10, 2008 in Canadian Politics | Permalink
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Hello? Anybody here? (*crickets*?)lol
Go Stephen (Mr. Rogers) Go! :)
Posted by: JC | 2008-10-10 9:42:28 PM
Great job, but I was hoping you would have tape of Laureen introducing the PM, CTV seems to have forgotten to post it.
Posted by: Hunter | 2008-10-10 10:34:11 PM
Check back tomorrow afternoon, I'll link to that video in the comments tomorrow.
Posted by: Robert Jago | 2008-10-10 10:51:30 PM
Great video! Has Harper always called his audience "friends," or did he pick that up from John McCain's verbal tic?
Posted by: Kalim Kassam | 2008-10-11 2:28:25 AM
I uploaded some photos from the event: http://tinyurl.com/4le6j9
http://tinyurl.com/3g4wjr
Posted by: A J Butler | 2008-10-11 10:47:12 AM
Great video! Has Harper always called his audience "friends," or did he pick that up from John McCain's verbal tic?"
~Kalim Kassam | 11-Oct-08 2:28:25 AM
Ha!
Do all you libertarian bozos have such tin ears politically speaking?
(I'll bet you plan to be somebody in Canada some day and it'll be seen by you as a "tic" that Canadians don't think someone with a name like Kassam isn't trusted as a friend)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qassam_rocket
(and Yes rendering the "K" as a "Q" from the Arabic is merely a tic and has nothing to do with any real difference between the two letters in "our" language)
eg. al-Qaida
Posted by: Speller | 2008-10-11 11:03:17 PM
Kalim - he's always said that. It's one of two verbal tics he has that drive me nuts.
Posted by: Robert Jago | 2008-10-13 1:06:39 AM
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