Ashley MacIsaac Returns
Ashley MacIsaac was man enough to return to K-Dough's Canada last night, and posted several fairly substantive answers in response to K-Dough's readers' questions on issues facing Canada. You can read his comments here: Ashley MacIsaac Visits K-Dough's Canada
posted by K-Dough at 7:22 AM
37 Comments:
I think Ashley has some things to say! He's definitely not a Dipper. And he's definitely part of the tilt-left movement in the Liberal party.
I wonder if he'd consider running for the Tories in the next election. That would be awesome.
Chucker: Is that really you. Did you catch some sort of brain disease down in Pittsburgh or something?
It was interesting, though depressing, to see the Globe and Mail come out in favour of Harper and then, within days of his re-election run an editorial deploring his Cabinet choices and saying, more or less, we were wrong to have supported him.
I don't think they, at least, will give him such an easy ride next time.
But you are right in that there's a huge media infrastructure in Canada that's predisposed towards Conservative viewpoints and that's been just dying to see Canada vote the right back into power. Think, Can West/Global, National Post, th Sun chain of papers and, as mentioned, many at the Globe and Mail as well.
Oh, and thanks for posting your responses Ashley.
Ashley's postings (aside from being a little convoluted) did nothing for me or my opinion/stance.
He sounds like his million ideas aren't connected and haven't been completely thought out. He contradicted/corrected himself twice in writing, which should provide you with the time and ability to get everything right. If he can't do that in writing, how's he going to (re)act on stage?
His choices do not reflect the direction Canada is moving and he will be sorefully lost should he actually decide to run. It will make a mokery of our political system and embarass himself.
Having said that, I applaud the fact he responded and attempted to explain his situation.
Nevertheless, politics requires thick-skin and being sensitive about his sexuality/drugs/etc... will not make it an easy 'ride'.
Some sober first thoughts from the cyber gallery.
Except Chuckers- I think he has been into the mini-bar!!!
I don't think spedning five minutes or so repsonsindg to questions thrown at me on a blog really desrved much effort in thoguht- so corrections were put forth due to that fact.As for giving you miore detail s into my thoguhts- Like I said Its blog- Yoyuare not the public or the delgates to whom which i want to get a point across too.Yousee- I willspend 10 20 or30 years if neccesaary honing my politcal skills of having people understadn what I want to say is what they want to hear- spending five minutes or ten minutes responding to people's questions in a blog attacking me as a fudge packer- you really don't think your gona get the POltcial firsestrom that i really have to ooffer now do you boys?
Even though I just got a headache and nausea trying to decipher his ramblings, I am impressed at the responses. More so for the fact that he DID respond rather than the substance.
I agree with Peter about the ideas being random and unrefined. Surely, this is one of the basic required elements of being any type of leader....strong communication skills. Dyslexia notwithstanding, Ash scores an F on that one.
Ashley (if that is you):
Actually, we ARE the people you want to address. We ARE the people you want to attract because we ARE the people who vote. WE determine if you are credible or not and if you continue to accuse us of 'attacking you for being a fudge packer' then you're not going to succeed at anything.
Get off your little sympathy-for-Ashley-train and move on!!
Yeah Ashley, but as K-Dough says, this is boot camp. We may all be anonymous bloggers, but you have taken the time to respond. These responses have to hold up to SOME kind of scrutiny, no?
Ashley - Re: the fudge packer thing. The old guy who wrote that has posted only one comment in this whole stream. If that's what you want to focus on you'll get nowhere.
I think your comments about not caring about what people on a blog think are short-sighted and unsophisticated. If you had any idea how many people visit this site everyday you might re-think your strategic marketing. Also, remember that everything you say here will be forever imprinted in cyber space and is searchable by anyone- including Liberals and the media.
Like it or not- we are the public. So are you right now.
My offer still stands. E-mail me.
ashley - we are exactly the public that you want to be getting your point across to... we are the voters...
Yoyuare not the public or the delgates to whom which i want to get a point across too.
If not us, who? As far as I can see, there was one comment that was offensive. We ARE the public. And I think we all made it quite clear that we are not homophobic. It is not an issue. If you don't want to discuss your sex life, don't bring it up. It might just be Too Much Info for most of the public.
Pam- I'd be happy to discuss my sex life, but I wouldn't want to causde any emotional distress amongst fellow bloggers.
Will this discussion involve Mitsou or jack juice? Or both?
BTW, stay away from "warming" jack juice. It'll cook your meat.
Leaher- You've got that right. It's always best to stay strictly organic baby- no additives, synthetic scents or chemicals in anything that touches my special purpose!
nevermind.
Dear The Public:
Never mind what?
The Management
Here is the latest message good ole Asher left for me on his site:
"And honestly there dude-
do you think calling soemone fudge packing fag was meant to be endearing?Im sorry but if yuo can't handle the fact that some of your posters are homo[phobic- than don't bother me anymore."
Where is Squid? He needs to address this- sensitively.
Squid- what are your honest thoughts on homosexuality? And I will warn you that if you express yourself in a hateful manner I will be forced to censor you.
Other gay readers and gay supporters, I would like to hear what you have to say about this accusation.
chucker, that is an excellent point.You are smart fella.
K-I tried to log on to Ashley's forum but it wouldn't let me reigster..did you have problems getting in?
Chuckercanuck,
Yahoo! Cyberspace Necrophilia! Now that's something that ah... ah... Oh, Fuck it, that's too weird for even me!
Pam,
Hi Darlin'
Of course he didn't have any trouble "getting in" (if you know what I mean) he's a hulking big male and you don't have the right equipment to get in. Know what, Pam, I think that when I die, you're the angel that God will assign to lead me into paradise!
Squid- good enough for me- albeit a little more scatalogical than my own writing style...
Pam- I had no problems whatsoever...
Squid, I guess that's why all that boob-flashing at the door wasn't working. Damn.
K-Dough, I was finally able to register and I'll post on his forum. I think it's a waste of time. Is he actually reading the replies?
I m am so sorry for being disconnectedf withthe fact thaqt you didnt mean to be homophobic when you called me a fudgepacker.I really shoulkd have understood that you weer being nice. aobut fudgepacking.And PAm I am happy to see you saying that you are not homo[pohbic - I really havent read any of the comments onhere adn I only cam eback beuvase PAm went to my webn site and was allupset.Of course I care aobut you folks - YE si know you are probalby voters- But it seems to me that you must allbe either too left for my taste or to right.Whatever the case- I am not concerned with pleasing allofthe people allofthetime. I was only bieng nice to repsond to your quesitons becuase blog haead master there said I wasnt interested - -fact is as I said I was busy- Adn as for callign me a fudge packer- Youshould alltry sometime making fudge with soem afgnai blaack in it- In my old dayswhen I was younger I tryed it and it was very nicce- And seeing as you seem to be so intnet ongetting a rise out of me I figured i might as well give you some past information of fusdge that doenst involve anal sex.Unles of course that is really what is getign allyour knickers in a twist- that you want soem fudge packing for real and can't seem to find any.I going out now to see isf there is frosting for sale at the local Starbucks- as I do not like Tim Hortons.
Oy vey...enough with the fucking fudge imagery ok?
You didn't read all the comments? Maybe you should have, before you started throwing around the homophobe tag.
You have a lot to learn and not enough time in which to learn it. Good luck with that.
I just went back and found Old Squid's comment that so vexed Ashley (I hadn't noticed it before) and I can see why it pissed him off. It pissed me off, too, quite frankly. I'd call it homophobic. It was certainly derogatory.
I'm sure Squid loves his gay neices and all that, and he may not really harbour any actual animosity towards gays -- I don't know. But he really ought to think about what it says to his neices that he'd use language like that to describe someone else who is basically the same as them.
That said, and has been pointed out before, that was only one person's comment out of the many who post to this site, and so I wouldn't judge everyone on here by that unfortunate choice of words.
K-Dough, we seem to have exhausted the Ashley connection. Who are you inviting over next? Belinda?
Jez-zus..I wasn't "all upset". I said read ALL of the posts.
Good luck, bud.
Homo- I hereby defer to your sensibilities. Although I understood the tongue in check origin of that comment, someone else might not.
I don't want to shut down the use of colourful language here though, so take your rage out on me in the future kids. Call me whatever the fuck you want from now on. I can take it.
Candace- Belinda Carlise ls a washed up hasbeen. Why would I want her here?
Hey, I love Belinda!
The problem with language like that is, however it's being used, it can be difficult to interpret other than in a negative way. I don't know Old Squid, and he doesn't know me, or Ashley, personally (that I am aware of).
If you, Kev, called me a fudgepacker, I'd tell you to go fuck yourself (but in a nice way). However, I'd know you weren't saying it because you were a homophobe, because I know you and you are not. But if I didn't know you and you said it, how could I tell?
And if diku called me one, I'd just laugh, because he's gay too (sorry to "out" you diku -- I know you're so big and butch that a lot of people don't realize it!), so it wouldn't be inappropriate in the way it is for a straight person to use that term.
The best thing is not to use words like that unless you yourself happen to fall into that category, in which case no one can really complain because you are obviously making fun of some aspect of yourself instead of intending to be hurtful to someone else.
I think we have well and truly put this issue to rest, thank God!
Now how about getting Belinda Carlisle on here...
Talk to leatherhands about Belinda. He was in the GoGos and I think he's still tight with her and the girls.
Everytime I feel a bit badly for Ash and think that maybe we should have given him a bit more credit, he comes out with another post that reads like a high school student in a bitch-fest.
Ash, you want to be LEADER OF THE LIBERAL PARTY OF CANADA for Christ sake. Gimme a freakin' break dude.
Pam,
I had a torrid affair with Belinda, and things would be very awkward between us. In fact, just hearing her name..."I get weak.."
I'm mad about that.
sounds like its time that Leatherhands draws a circle in the sand.
leather, that's exactly what I thought. I read his replies (and that was no easy feat)and I think everyone did give him a chance. I went over to his forum and read for a few minutes. It's the same shit in a different pile.
So,I guess you don't know if Belinda's still Got the Beat?
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