Newman rejects Mulroney's claims of betrayal

[Spazito]

Author Peter C. Newman says his controversial book on Brian Mulroney shows the "human side" of the former prime minister.

Speaking on CTV's Canada AM, Newman also rejected claims that Mulroney felt "devastated" and "betrayed."

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Mulroney also described his short-lived successor, Kim Campbell, as a "very vain person who blew the 1993 election because she was too busy screwing around with her Russian boyfriend" resulting in "the most incompetent campaign I've seen in my life."

And in a moment of self praise Mulroney says: "Nobody has achievements like this ... you cannot name a Canadian prime minister who has done as many significant things as I did, because there are none."

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(More proof, not that I needed any, that Mulroney is despicable and so full of himself he couldn't see beyond his needs to those of Canadians)

[ClusterFreak]

1. I suppose it's Kim Campbell's fault that the federal P.C. party never....

...EVER recovered after the 1993 election, and is now in fact no longer in existence at the federal level?? The party of Sir John A. MacDonald, the only prime minister you say can hold a candle to you Brian, IS NO MORE. Well, Brian, if you consider decimating the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada as one of "those" achievements or "significant things" you did....then yes indeed, you are without peer.:puke:

[Freedom Socialist]

2. Heh...

I find it funny that Mulrotten compares himself to a racist alcoholic.

MacDonald's only saving grace was his anti-continentalism.

Incidentally, I ordered this book on Amazon earlier today, along with Phillip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy.

Should be jolly good fun.

I'm almost ready for a commonwealth night of Iron Maiden, Canadian Whisky, and Kraft Dinner as I watch the New Zealand election results role in later this week.

I'm cheering for the Greens.

NZ First = Bigots

United Future = Fundies

Progressives = Prohibitionist Simpletons who joined a coalition with said Fundies. For the many things he does get right, if Jim Anderton had his way, New Zealand would be renamed to New DEAland.

Labour = Tolerable I guess, but they still got in bed with the Fundies to keep the Greens out of power.

National = No. Just no. The last thing we need is a ruling party led by a misogynist hypocrite with ties to a religious movement at least as far to the right as America's Dominionists.

Everybody else = Who gives a flying fuck?

[Maple]

3. A racist alcoholic?

Sir John A was a man of his times, and no more 'racist' than anyone else was then.

Why would you judge a person from 1867 by the social standards of 2005?

As to the drinking, he lost a wife and a son, and his daughter was born with hydrocephaly.

In spite of all this he built a nation.

I don't begrudge him his alcohol.