Sorry for the absence. A lot of good has happened in the last two weeks. Rosie's out of the running for the host spot on Price is Right! But so has a lot of bad, including today's news from Afghanistan. But I would like to mention something a little less heavy this evening -- the new website Dalton.ca. Whatever your take on Dalton McGuinty, this is one fine piece of political advertising. Low cost, incredibly professional, straight to the point and interesting. The Ontario Liberals get top points for this.
McGuinty's tenure has been shaky from a "promises kept" perspective, so he's done well to address all those shortcomings this early on. When John Tory tries to raise them during the fall campaign, much of the public will be tired of hearing about it. He's already dealt with that stuff.
When Greg Sorbara delivered his first budget in 2004, I was in the lockup and had to write the editorial for the next day's National Post. No one could believe how many promises he broke. But as I left that room, I said to a colleague, "Just wait. Dalton McGuinty will get a second majority." I still believe that. The Liberals knew exactly what they were doing. They knew that if they got all that bad news out of the way early on, they could spend the next three years explaining it away and that most people would forget about it.
Judging by the polls, that's exactly what's happened.
# posted by Adam Daifallah : 11:24 PM
