Everything New is Old Again

If ever you needed proof that it's time for "generational change" in the commentariat, Lawrence Martin's shambling moist-eyed paen to Stephane Dion is it (free access here).  Stephane Dion, you see, is not just the new Liberal leader, he is... wait for it... Bobby Kennedy ("a touch, just a hint, of RFK?"  Is it just a hint, Larry? Or is it so much more?).  As Martin sojourns back to the 1960s to get his political touchstones, we learn that in addition to liberal mythologizing, his current views are coloured by something out of another big influence from the 1960s: The Lord of the Rings.  Justin Trudeau was "shimmering".  In Martin's account, Dion is endowed not just with the potential to be a good leader, but with "a trace of the mystical".  A trace of the mystical, for the luvvachrist.  In Montreal, Martin intones, something more than a change of leadership occurred: "A leader with ... the potential to change so much, was born".  Actually, Stephane Dion was born in 1955.  Regardless, maybe Martin is correct: maybe something changed in Montreal, perhaps Dion really is so much more than he appears, and we're about to be lead by a Quebecois Frodo.

Comments

[DCardno]

"At the campaign's beginning, the rambling, unpolitical Mr. Dryden made only muffled sounds. By its end, his voice of reason..." (my emphasis)

Categorizing those who disagree with your political views as not worthy citizens is "unpolitical" or the "voice of reason?"

'Nuff said.