Some more leftover footage from the Liberal leadership convention in Montreal.
In this short clip of Howard Dean’s keynote speech, Dean speaks some french (among the most I heard at that Montreal convention), takes a shot at Fox News and references his famous “Dean scream”
Stephane Dion is the newly elected leader of the Liberal Party. People have been criticizing the work that the former Environment Minister has done for Kyoto while Dion himself boasts of his numerous accomplishments. I’ve looked into how Dion has been the steward of this issue, indeed his number one priority, and I should say that I agree with the bespeckled leader of the opposition. Stephane Dion is indeed the champion of Kyoto.
Top 10 things Stephane Dion has done for Kyoto
10) New leash for Kyoto’s birthday
9) Keeps Kyoto away from that nasty mongrel down the street named Katrina
8) Keeps Kyoto out of the sun for too long. Solar radiation can cause Kyoto confusion.
7) Refuses to stay in hotels that won’t recognize Kyoto
6) Takes Kyoto to the dog park to play with Harper’s dog “Clean Air” and Layton’s dog “Economy”. Sometimes Duceppe’s dog “Nation” shows up to play.
5) Takes Kyoto for the occasional run on the family treadmill dubbed the “Global Conveyor”
4) Will often take Kyoto on long car rides just so doggy can stick his head out the window
3) Keeps Kyoto’s coat short for hot summers
2) Taught Kyoto how to roll over
and the number one thing that Stephane Dion has done for Kyoto…
1) Lets Kyoto bury Liberal fossils in the back yard
UPDATE: Looks like MolarMauler joked around about Kyoto a few days ago too. Check out his post for more Kyoto fun.
I’ve a few convention leftovers that I want to share.
Convention buttons were a big hit on the floor among Liberals. (See my previous post for the other buttons)
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Speaking of Justin vs. Belinda in Smackdown 2008, check out Macleans top story about the race to replace Stephane Dion, the Liberals’ interim leader.
I mentioned in one of Greg Staples earlier hotstove podcasts that if Bob Rae had won, the Conservatives would have spun the new Liberal leader as “potentially Canada’s first NDP Prime Minister”. I think that this button captures that spirit.
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Staying on Bob Rae, and mocking him on his record instead of resorting to vicious ad hominem attacks we have this amusing button handed out on the convention floor:
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This button was critical of the lack of french spoken at the Liberal convention in Montreal. I heard that a full 80% of delegates could not speak french (or were unilingual, I forget which).
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Finally, on the last ballot between Iggy and Dion, these buttons made their first appearance on the convention floor. These are obviously funny for a few reasons.
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Moving on from the buttons, this piece came from the Conservative war room to help Liberals feel especially good about themselves at their party.
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And… the best piece from the convention, in my opinion, was produced by the NDP war room who were kind enough to email me the PDF of their “map to the scars”, an Adscam tour of Montreal. Print it out, fold it up and hand it out to your friends (but tell them to vote Conservative!)