Michael Ignatieff fundraiser...with puffins!
Michael Ignatieff is having a fundraiser in Vancouver. Can't find it? Look for the posters with puffins on it.
I'm not kidding.
Check out the flyer that has been made and distributed by local BC Liberals to generate interest for a $200-per-plate fundraising dinner for Michael Ignatieff.
One picture of Michael Ignatieff.
Two pictures of puffins.
And one misspelling of Ignatieff's name (see at the bottom -- Ingnatieff).
The point of this dinner is to raise funds to pay down the debts incurred by Michael Ignatieff in running for the leadership of the Liberal Party, the race he lost to Stephane Dion:
He put himself forward to lead the Liberal Party and Canada last year, and in doing so he made a profound commitment to all Canadians. Canada needs leaders of Michael’s stature, abilities and vision. In order to attract and keep his caliber of leadership, we need to stand behind Michael Ignatieff for the financial obligations he made on our behalf while seeking to represent our aspirations and to lead Parliament and the country.
It is an unfortunate choice of words to talk about attracting people with Ignatieff's caliber of leadership, given the focus this week on Stephane Dion's faltering leadership of the Liberal Party, and the allegations made by Dion's people that Michael Ignatieff supporters worked to derail the Outremont by-election in order to set the stage for a coup.
As we all know, the Liberals lost their stronghold of Outremont, and in spectacular fashion.
Funny thing (besides the puffins, I mean) is that if you alter the tense slightly, this meeting could be a fundraiser for a future leadership campaign. Well, if Liberal in-fighting does not cool down in the two weeks leading up to this appearance, the promise that this fundraiser "is certain to be memorable" might very well come true.
But really, puffins? Joke or not, Michael Ignatieff needs to put that "hiding-their-excrement-makes-them-great-Liberals" comment behind him. Get back on message with "I'm-not-plotting-against-Stephane-Dion-really-I'm-not".
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Credit where credit is due.
I think embracing the puffins is funny. Self-parody is a healthy trait, in small doses. If he continues to play on this it will back-fire.
Intentional or otherwise I love the whole Liberal/hiding excretement equation.
Posted by: Paul the Canuck at September 19, 2007 12:07 PM
Perhaps people didn't get his joke - CRAP is excrement. Conservative Reform-Alliance Party of Canada shortform is CRAP. Burying excrement-crap???
Posted by: Sam at September 19, 2007 12:13 PM
"Perhaps people didn't get his joke ..."
Geez, when you have to go to the next town to get the punch line, doesn't say much about the "joke" to begin with ...
Some people use “Reform” as a pejorative. But look it up in your history books; the Liberal party also has a REFORM party antecedent.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reform_Party_%28pre-Confederation%29
“The Reform movement, sometimes referred to as the Reform Party, began in the 1830s as the movement in the English speaking parts of British North America (Canada). It agitated for responsible government.
In Maritime Canada, these movements were also referred to as Liberal, and later became the Liberal parties in those colonies.”
Posted by: Gabby in QC at September 19, 2007 12:41 PM
It is akin to gays taking the word 'queer' back, and embracing it..so that it loses more of its stigma..how that is to be done here remains to be seen..amusing though it is..
Posted by: kursk at September 19, 2007 12:56 PM
Puffin Iggy may just get flipped the bird in his efforts to bum for dollars. They have a leader, Iggy is his second in command, why would they want to support him for leader and risk further meltdown of the Party?
Posted by: Libby at September 19, 2007 02:04 PM
Just think about it .... the federal Liberals don't have a leadership quality replacement for Dion ... noooooobody ... LOL
Posted by: Observer at September 19, 2007 02:14 PM
Michael Ignatieff the "Puffin Man". Try it to the tune of the child's song "The Muffin Man". I thought they would have let the puffin analogy disappear rather than keep reminding the public. Joke? The guy was dead serious about being as fastidious as puffins covering up their excrement. He just wasn't quick enough to think about the litteral translation to which he was subjecting his own party.
Posted by: Malcolm at September 19, 2007 02:41 PM
Well..there is always Corn Cob Bob....
Posted by: David at September 19, 2007 07:26 PM
...what about the do-do bird?
Posted by: tomax7 at September 20, 2007 10:04 AM
Another birdbrained politician only interested in feathering his own bed, another MOCKINGBIRD, laying it's eggs in other birds' nests, so that it's offspring can push the other babys out of the nest, to die on the ground... Qaannaddians are the poor sparrow parents, trying to feed these fat, greedy, greasy, sociopath baby mockingbirds....
Posted by: Feldwebel Wolfenstool at September 20, 2007 10:17 AM
Sorry, I meant CUCKOO BIRD.
Posted by: Feldwebel Wolfenstool at September 20, 2007 10:23 AM
Dion's new theme song will be:
Oh dear what can the matter be
Oh dear what can the matter be
Oh dear what can the matter be
Iggy is not playing fair
Now run along boys and girls there will be Puffin Poo for all.
Posted by: joe at September 22, 2007 11:52 PM
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