Bush-PM Summit Sparks Barbs

Posted on Monday, April 05 at 10:01 by KevinGagnon

Martin confirms visit this spring

SUSAN DELACOURT AND BRUCE CAMPION-SMITH OTTAWA BUREAU

The looming summit between Prime Minister Paul Martin and U.S. President George W. Bush is already threatening to turn into a political football in the federal election expected this spring.

"I can assure you that if Mr. Martin and Mr. Bush want to stand side by side, we'd be honoured to have that in our material come the campaign," Nova Scotia New Democrat MP Peter Stoffer said yesterday. "We could have a lot of fun with this."

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  1. Mon Apr 05, 2004 9:53 pm
    What on earth are they going to talk about? Martin is a reader of books, Bush prays to jesus every half hour in anticipation of the apocalypse. I don't know what to make of Martin's disturbing enthusiasm to meet with that nutbar.

  2. Tue Apr 06, 2004 12:36 am
    I like the part where Stockwell Day talks about Martin's credibility...talk about pots and kettles.

    I don't understand why Martin thinks it's so important to cozy up to Bush. The guy could well be gone come November, has made a point, several times, of snubbing Canada, has sent us a completely incompetent ambassador, is a convicted criminal, started an illegal war, seems to have a messiah complex, and is just generally too stupid too carry on a conversation.

    If Martin really wanted to meet a Texan who cared about Canada, he'd arrange a meeting with Steve Earle. Paul does seem to have a hankering for hanging out with politcally-minded rock stars, after all. Maybe Steve could talk some sense into him. ;-)

  3. Tue Apr 06, 2004 3:17 am
    Kinda ironic that Bush sits around praying to be saved when the apocalypse comes, and yet he works so hard to ensure its manifestation.

    Oh sorry. Did I say HE works hard?? I meant his "advisers" work hard to ensure the manifestation of the apocalypse. Oops.. little slip o' the tongue there

    -KY

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    Kory Yamashita

    "What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." - Oliver Wendell Holmes

  4. Tue Apr 06, 2004 3:18 am
    I think he's going down for some advice on how to steal an election. Or hopefully he's going to have Cellucci sent home; which is advice I gave him that would convince me that he really does have Canadians best interests at heart.

    But, most distressing are my suspicions that Martin has an hidden agenda. I suspect during all this travelling around there has been and will be some sinister back-room meetings.

  5. Tue Apr 06, 2004 7:02 am
    4canada, I'm with you on that one. It seems like everything Paul Martin says is so good, yet everything he does is so evil. I only wish I believed the old "actions speak louder than words" saying...

    -KY


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    Kory Yamashita

    "What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." - Oliver Wendell Holmes

  6. Wed Apr 07, 2004 10:30 pm
    PM Martin thinks he has to meet with Bush 43 because 'thats the way its always been'. Sadly, too many Canadians still think that they are somehow connected to Washington and that connection cannot ever be severed and they cannot get up off their knees. Few remember how it was before John F Kennedy and his cohorts clubbed Diefenbaker/CF Arrow/BOMARC missle/Cuban 'crisis' in 1963 and Canada into submission. It is time to 'back up the train' and get it back on the right track. It will be costly but it needs to be done. Soon.For all of us.

  7. Fri Apr 09, 2004 5:27 am
    Kory that saying is true, the problem is we have absolutely NO IDEA of what he is DOING, we are only told this and that...just like the first free trade, we didn't know what the actions would be; we only heard the rhetoric! So when these people say things like read my lips, DON'T...cause that is not where the truth lies!(pun intended)

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    If I stand for my country today...will my country be here to stand for me tomorrow?



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