Harper: Hitler? Really? lolz

[TaraF]

I'm not posting this as a "bash Harper" thread but this can NOT go un noticed LOL Today in question period Harper accused the NDP of not supporting the fight against Hitler. No really, he did! The NDP didn't exist until 1961. Seriously, this is the man running our country LOL

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Prime Minister Stephen Harper was shouted down during a debate in question period Thursday on the Afghanistan mission for suggesting the NDP – not yet in existence – didn’t even support Canada’s military involvement in the Second World War.
NDP Leader Thomas Mulcair was asking Harper if he intended to extend the Afghanistan mission past 2014 after a Postmedia News report Wednesday said U.S officials had asked Canadian special forces to stay past the withdrawal date.
The prime minister responded the NDP has a pacifistic ideology “regardless of circumstances” and his government would make the right decision for Afghanistan’s security.
“In 1939, the NDP leader didn’t even want to support the fight against Hitler,” Harper said, before being drowned out by cat calls

[cdylan]

omg poor canada....

[Snow Queen]

~rolls eyes~

..and people voted him in.. AGAIN..

[MortgageQueen]

Scary, but not too surprising.

[TaraF]

What was the comment Sarah Palin made about seeing Russia from her back yard? This is Harpers Palin moment. lol

[DaveP]

Maybe he was thinking of Quebec, where most NDP MPs are from? Quebec was very much against conscription at the time. But yeah, he definitely misspoke.

[FallenPixels]

It was a Party which broke off and became the NDP

NDP MPs gently reminded Harper from across the aisle that the NDP didn’t come into existence until 1961, birthed by a union between the socialist Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) and the Canadian Labour Congress.
“CCF, NDP, same difference,” Harper responded curtly.

[Lynn49]

Why am I not surprised.......

[Darth Penguin]

What was the comment Sarah Palin made about seeing Russia from her back yard? This is Harpers Palin moment. lol

Tina fey....

''And I can see Russia from my house.''

—Tina Fey, impersonating Sarah Palin on Saturday Night Live

[Patty Smyth]

Maybe he was thinking of Quebec, where most NDP MPs are from? Quebec was very much against conscription at the time. But yeah, he definitely misspoke.

Quebecers notoriously ran to the hills during the war, not a proud moment

[erin9mmm]

Sticking your foot in your mouth I think is a pre-requisite of being a politician. I found these online...

“As long as I am Prime Minister, I remain the Prime Minister.”
- Jean Chrétien, former Prime Minister.

“My conduct had nothing to do with me.”
- Al McLean, former Ontario MPP and Speaker of the Ontario Legislature, defending his conduct during a sexual harassment case.

“Canada is the greatest nation in this country.”
- Allan Lamport, Mayor of Toronto from 1952-1954.

Jean Chrétien talking about the Middle East conflict:
“The best positive thing you can do is not to tell them to stop on both sides to fight and to go back to talk is the only way out of that. And it’s what I said and I said that.”

“I am not denying anything I didn’t say.”
- Prime Minister Brian Mulroney.

...more including insults:

“Paul Martin commits to positions like Britney Spears commits to marriage.”
- Stephen Harper, while announcing his candidacy for leader of the Federal Conservative Party in 2004.

Ontario Premier Ernie Eves:
“Mr. McGuinty just says whatever pops into his little, sharp, pointy head because he thinks that’s what you want to hear.”
Ontario Liberal Leader Dalton McGuinty:
“What if I spear you with my head?”

“What is the difference between a cactus and a conservative caucus? On a cactus, the pricks are on the outside.”
- John Diefenbaker, former Prime Minister.

“All the evidence suggests that the Liberals want to look after impoverished Canadians – why else would they have created over four million of them?”
- Federal PC Leader Brian Mulroney in 1984.

“The Liberals are a beanbag kind of party that looks like the last person that sat in it.”
- Bob Rae, Premier of Ontario 1990-95 and current Liberal MP.

"The Liberals are the flying saucers of politics. No one can make head nor tail of them, and they never are seen twice in the same place.”
- John Diefenbaker, former Prime Minister speaking in London, Ontario in 1962.

U.S. Secret Service agent: “Who are you and where are you going?”
Prime Minister Lester B Pearson: “I live here and I’m going to the bathroom.”
- in 1967, at the Prime Minister’s house at Harrington Lake. The Secret Service agents were protecting U.S. President Lyndon Johnson who was in Canada for Expo 67 and a meeting with Pearson.

“Canada is like an old cow. The West feeds it. Ontario and Québec milk it. And you can well imagine what it’s doing in the Maritimes.”
- Saskatchewan Premier Tommy Douglas.

“If you’re a mayor and you have a problem, what do you do? You blame the provincial government. And when you’re the provincial government and you have a problem, what do you do? You blame the federal government. And for us, we cannot blame the Queen any more, so we blame the Americans once in a while.”
- Jean Chrétien, former Prime Minister of Canada.

“In Pierre Trudeau, Canada has finally produced a Prime Minister worthy of assassination.”
- John Diefenbaker

“The election is not a time to discuss serious issues.”
– Kim Campbell

“The fact is the statements are perfectly consistent, but more importantly, I don’t have all the facts.”
– Prime Minister Paul Martin.

“I’ve been called treacherous, stupid, venal, lazy… and that’s only by the Tories.”
– Peter McKay, Conservative MP and former Tory leader.

[TaraF]

OMG erin this is my new favorite quote/misquote LOL

“What is the difference between a cactus and a conservative caucus? On a cactus, the pricks are on the outside.”
- John Diefenbaker, former Prime Minister.

[Patty Smyth]

Dalton McGinty " What if I spear you with my head" bahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

[Patty Smyth]

You know I bet we could fill an entire thread with stupid politician comments

[TaraF]

You know I bet we could fill an entire thread with stupid politician comments

You probably could. I say we do it lol the ball has started rolling!