Edmund Burke – WAYNE K. SPEAR

Good fortune and Bob Rae weren’t always on the best of terms

June 13, 2012January 5, 2015 by Wayne K. Spear, posted in Canada, Politics

FEDERAL LIBERAL LEADER Bob Rae’s citation of William Shakespeare was an indirect invocation also of a commonplace political euphemism — the putting aside of personal ambition “to spend more time with the family.” Announcing his decision yesterday not to run for permanent leadership, he produced the closing lines of Sonnet 25:

The Triumph of America’s Booboisie

February 28, 2012January 6, 2015 by Wayne K. Spear, posted in Politics, World

WELL BEFORE THE lapsed acronym RINO (Republican In Name Only) was re-popularized by California Reaganite Celeste Greig, Barry Goldwater had taken on the Rockefeller Republican, energizing a contemporary political trajectory whose crowning achievement was announced on July 27, 1980, by journalist Henry Fairlie: