Liberal Supporters Will Find It Embarassing.....

....but it seemed like a simple question and Dion appears to have screwed up royally. I would cut him some slack but he has been very vocal about putting the heat on Harper on the same subject.

CTV Just Won Dion The Election
This is worse than the Chretien face-paralysis attack ad. CTV just won Dion the election.

Stephane Dion: The armchair quarterback melts under real pressure

Thursday, October 09, 2008 at 09:46 PM Comments: 25

The question was not really that hard to understand. Sure, it was bit more complicated than "What's your favourite colour?" or "What's the average air speed of an African swallow?"

But really, it was an important question. In fact, it was the most important question you could ask Stephane Dion under the circumstances.

What would you have done differently?

And Stephane Dion couldn't answer it. He couldn't even understand it. All he could do was bob his head and grin.

It was painful and embarrassing and thank CTV we could all see it before a terrible mistake was made.

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