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Just a quick question. What's wrong with what Layton did if he did get escort services at the massage parlour? I know several guys his age who get it all the time?! I would too if I was his age I think. Unless I'm missing something here?

Justin Trudeau sucks. Period.

Yes but if you watched the full game you will notice that Layton made sure he bullied everyone who wanted to be on the front away with force to ensure he got his 15 seconds of fame on TV. An elected official who already gets enough face time to act so childishly goes to show he's a big hypocrite who is anything but a guy who you want to have a beer with. That ticks me off... Hypocrite.

Booking his next flight to the US. Leaving that career politician Justin Trudeau in charge.

TBH, I was pissed off when I saw this on TV. Layton just goes to show he's a perfect A level hypocrite. If you saw the screen, no body else did what Layton did, which shows he didn't want to see the TV screen but to see the camera...

Glad to have you here Roger! Great post. I believe the liberal party is paving the way clearly for Justin Trudeau. I think the party knows full well that if they put him on the pedestal right away, they will lose a major future leader. So I think the party really doesn't mind much right now. I think just like how the Republican establishment gave John McCain one of the "good ol' boys" in 2008 a shot similar to Bob Dole, the Liberals are giving their ol' boys a shot. Ultimately, I think going forward, seeing how the conservative support among immigrants is going up as we speak, maybe in the next 10 years we might see some massive gains in Toronto among Cons which will create a position where NDP will merge with the Libs. Until then, Layton will ensure he milks as much of the Quebec and left's support as he can.

Something is fishy here... Of all the newspapers... The Toronto Star does this story. Not only that, they make it a front-page issue several times. Then, you have G&M etc. slightly maintaining a positive side towards Dhalla (innocent until proven guilty mantra) Something doesn't add up. My thinking is Dhalla pissed off someone very influential in the Canadian political spectrum/media Or there's some sort of blackmail here. She obviously doesn't have a good reputation among colleagues for being too "demanding and ambitious" If this is the case, she's fried. Not many liberals have come to her rescue in this issue as well making me believe someone powerful is behind this. Or, The Toronto Star is just a pro-liberal newspaper that also likes to see a non-white liberal go down because there are many liberal supporters who like to see her go down. Maybe it's like guilty pleasure they get from this whole ordeal. Shameful really. I have no problem if she's convicted if guilty, but the way the media and political parties are killing her here even that Quebec MP who forgot war briefing papers at his hot biker gang girlfriend's house didn't have to face this treatment.

Argus & licowhatever ... stop using the word "we" into everything you type. use the word "I" instead because you are no more a Canadian than the other guy and no more a patriot than the other guy. And more importantly, you seem more and more like an Albertan fundie nut to me who is xenophobic To make my point across... You are a racist schmuck and the likes of you will never change. You will always blame OTHER people for YOUR problems because you are not man enough to face them. You will always thrive at OTHER people's failures because you cannot fathom your failure. People like you are generally the ones who go on welfare and end up bashing others who go on it. People like you are the ones who use as many loopholes as possible to pay as little taxes as possible or generally make peanuts and pay peanuts in taxes but talk as if they are paying the lions share and talk as if you are taking care of thousands of OTHER PEOPLE (read immigrants) with your money. I have seen it way too many times. Hypocrisy is prevalent with your types.

Not a surprising answer. Russia is currently the most racist nation on earth. In fact, Russia has more than half of the world's Neo-Nazi population. There is even a party that harbours these racists that regularly gets 15% of the vote in Russia. So closet racists like yourself should be thrown out of Canada first as you clutter an already racist nation which unsurprisingly has very few non-white politicians i the first place

Ruby Dhalla's current treatment by the media and even some liberals shows racism and anti-immigration

It's funny the so-called conservatives are gung-ho about limited government. Yet, the likes of Bush or Harper increase spending, increase the size of government and mess up, all of you support them. Why? You have the glee on your face when they do that and say "See!" as if to say that the leftist tendencies in them has failed but somehow they still represent the conservative point of you. As BM would say "Conservative governments f***up and say see, we told you government does not work!"

It's funny you don't put the same benchmark on Bush who's arguably the most socialist president ever after the bailout and Medicare Part D or Harper who after giving 80B to the banks AND bailing out the auto sector AND going to do more socialist acts soon doesn't get this sort of hatred when Obama hasn't even done anything yet. Oh he represents the democratic party but yet the republicans and Harper's gov't has been spending money like there's no tomorrow but get a free ride. LOL I can't fail but laugh at this hypocrisy.

After 9/11 I'm sure every democrat felt that Bush SHOULD NOT fail. Yet, in this deepshit economy where everyone is losing their job regardless of party affiliation, saying Obama should fail is encouraging more job losses and MORE poverty. Like it will matter to these rich fat commentators who will not have to face REAL life.

Let's see how she governs in a tough economy. Any idiot can bring surpluses and bring tax cuts in oil rich states like Alaska, even the Saudis who don't even have a single tax-payer base run a decent empire. It's when you don't have these luxurious that churn out cash consistently do you get exposed.

Firstly the 2000 election is largely believed by many Americans to have been stolen by Bush (read Jeb Bush in Florida). Also, after 9/11, in 2002 bush had 84% support by Americans, I bet much of the leftwing was part of it too. But after 2003, he's been a royal fuckup. No one can deny that. Iraq war - no WMD costing over a trillion now (more than the bailout) and then costing more lives. Even THEN, some in the left and many in the centre-left/middle did support him as lesser of two evils against Kerry. But then Katrina came and he was exposed. Then the economic crisis and him not knowing a thing about what the heck to do. Hence, the Republicans lost in both 2006 and 2008 in house and senate seats. I bet you conservatives love the fact that Bush introduced the most socialist plan in American history - the $800 Billion bailout. That goes against every conservative principle in history. Yet you go rant against a guy who's just in. This is the idiocy of the ultra-right wing. They think they are going against the grain and being heroic in the process but know very will that when they express that idea in the mainstream audience, they will not be able to defend it. So they talk and vent in forums. This is exactly what Limbaugh makes money from, that 14% of the base that cannot accept the fact that a black man became the President. To someone who said the right-wing base is 50%... I cannot help but laugh the Registered Republican base is about 28% while democrats are around 39%-45% in the recent election last I checked. If you say many have centre-right views I'll agree but to say that they are rightwingers is far from the truth. Republicans need the support from the middle and some democrats, and if people like Limbaugh and those who share his views keep pushing things without giving Obama a chance, they will not win for a long time and lose their rising stars like Bobby Jindal and Eric Cantor and end up with more old rich white guys like McCain and Romney or Pastors like Huckabee who will keep losing.