The Voice Of Real People
Canada is having an election and the leaders of the major parties [with the exception of the Green Party, because its leader is a girl and she asks embarrassing questions] finally had their French-language debate [after rescheduling because it conflicted with a National Hockey League playoff game].
The winner of the debate in the minds of many Canadians, according to the CBC, was a citizen who asked a direct question: Quebec woman becomes instant star after debates
The aftermath of Wednesday night’s French-language debate had the four political campaigns all spinning that their leader won, but it was a 53-year-old woman questioner who seemed to have won the hearts of many viewers.
Muguette Paillé, a 53-year-old unemployed woman from Sainte-Angèle-de-Prémont in Quebec’s Maurice region, asked the leaders about job creation, particularly for older workers, during the French-language debate.
…Asked whether she feels she got an answer to her question, Paillé said she felt the leaders showed empathy, but what she wants is a job.
…Paillé’s question to the leaders was: “The employment rate is very high in the region. Steady jobs are scarce. It is hard for someone like me — I’m 53 — to find work. So I would like to know how you intend to create jobs in Quebec, particularly in my region, and how it will help people over the age of 50 find permanent jobs.”
This proves that the leaders of the parties at the debate were correct in their assessment that including Elizabeth May of the Green Party, would have been a problem, because they got embarrassed by a woman who simply asked a question.
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Dayum!
Can you imagine any of our contrived “debates” allowing a question like that to be put to a candidate? Certainly the so-called “journalists” wouldn’t ask it, and if the debate were town-hall-meeting style, they’d never choose a person with a question like that to come to the mic… ever.
I have mostly stopped watching the US presidential “debates” altogether. If I want bullshit shoveled into my living room, I know a landscaper who can supply it to me far cheaper than what I’d end up paying any politician for it.
The US media has no idea what is really going on in the country, and they want to keep it that way. They cover the Tea Party for its entertainment value, they have no idea how valid or invalid their claims are, and don’t care. No one wants the “great unwashed” to intrude on their “beautiful minds” and Barbara Bush said.
I can get the equine equivalent for free if I bring the truck and shovel. U-Haul really hates it when you do that, even if you hose out the bed. Horseshit is better for roses.