Can Stéphane Dion reel in the prize?

[CHIMO]

Early evening on Georgian Bay, a recent summer, two chums fishing. The heat of the day has burned away, the fish are stirring, and they're anchored offshore, little outboard pulled up, sound of water slapping the boat, call of loon and whippoorwill and, between two men, silence.

A fishing story; life as good as it gets. A golden time for friends of 20 years — Quebecer Stéphane Dion and Peter Russell from Ontario — and about to get a whole lot better when one wins bragging rights that stand to this day.

Dion snaps his wrist back and flicks out his line, reeling it in slowly in the choppy water. He is using a worm and a small silver spinner.

Dion says he's an impatient man. Should we believe him? If he triumphs in December, one will be tempted to look back and see the serene and wily fisherman on the water, baiting his hook, casting his line and waiting patiently, doing everything right until he lands the prize.

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[MrPrax]

1. Chimo...how could you?

You missed the 'money quote' in your excerpt:

"Stéphane is a wonderful fisherman. He's brilliant. He outfished me (pause) that day," recalls Russell, professor emeritus of political science at the University of Toronto and constitutional expert.

no...no...not that one...but that's good too

Oh...Here we go:

Dion was serious. "Fishing," he said, "is the only moment in my life when I am patient."

Ah...closure...sweet metaphorical closure...that's the stuff...

How dare you Chimo tease us with only a tantalizing taste of perhaps the most hackneyed political metaphor currently in use...

Oh wait...my God, the Metaphor© has taken a life of it's own --

Dion says he's an impatient man. Should we believe him? If he triumphs in December, one will be tempted to look back and see the serene and wily fisherman on the water, baiting his hook, casting his line and waiting patiently, doing everything right until he lands the prize.

(last paragraph, I kid you not)

Well with quality writing like this, the MSM has no fear from the narcassistic hordes of unwashed, futilely rolling their boulders of vanity up to the tops of their electronic 'towers of babel', only to have them roll back down into a sea of ignorance, conspiracy and disinformation.

(me write paper, me use metaphors, me write paper good)

[CHIMO]

2. How Could You

I did.

The first three paragraphs and the last one.

Bye the way, he could be the "sleeper" coming up the middle. Or he may be the one who will take some firm stands that could catch. Who knows?

Besides it may all be for naught, if we get an election call before the 22nd go to Afghanistan and people find out that they have to pay tax on their $100 a month.