Sometimes political speeches make me want to stab at my eardrums with chopsticks:
"Your government shares that optimism.
"It shares your goals.
"And it understands that, over the next four years, you want to move forward the Ontario way: by working and building and dreaming, together."
Unlike in, say, Saskatchewan, where the way they move forward is by idling and destroying without imagination.
And what's with the "moving forward" nonsense?
As I noted in this posting, the Grits used the phrase 19 times in 43 pages of their election platform.
Are we really going to have to listen to it, and try to figure out what it actually means, for the next four years?
Comments (3)
Mr. MacBride,
You live in "Moving Forward" Mississauga with its insufferable "Moving Forward" slogan and you write:
The *choke* Grits have a whole pile of Mississaugan "Moving Forward" types in it.
Not that I'm suggesting that those Liberal Mississaugans are actually moving forward types --just types who use "Moving Forward" to camouflage their backward leaning tendencies.
From my own brief observation of municipal governance, and of course, as you know from bitter journalistic experience, anyone who uses "moving forward" bet your boots is Scuttling Sideways when no one's lookin'.
Signed,
The (Resigned to live in Mississauga) Mississauga Muse
P.S. No offense to creatures who, by the nature of their DNA, actually scuttle sideways.
Posted by The Mississauga Muse | November 29, 2007 5:52 PM
Posted on November 29, 2007 17:52
What agenda is served by assigning Greg Sorbara to a seat in the Legislature at the end of a row under the exit sign? Will
this agenda move us forward, sideways or sink
the whole lot?
Posted by Janet L Seabrook | November 30, 2007 1:09 PM
Posted on November 30, 2007 13:09
‘Moving forward’ is not always a good idea. Like when you are standing on the edge of a cliff, or on a train platform and the train isn’t quite there yet.
Posted by Stephen Wahl | December 12, 2007 4:21 PM
Posted on December 12, 2007 16:21