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Listed below are comments made by GrantBudding between Wednesday, 7th May 2008 and Tuesday, 31st March 2009.

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The best prepared award 2:17pm on 31 Mar 2009 Most of what you said is correct. Our lack of a deficit and consistent budget surplus helped us not only financially but culturally too - Canadians have a big aversion to budget deficits now.

On the other hand, you shouldn't refer to this as Stephanomics. Although I am a supporter of Stephan Harper, most of the economic policies were established in the early-mid 1990s, under a 3 term Prime Minister (Jean Chretien) and his finance minister (Paul Martin) who worked wonders, although it took a lot of difficult political decisions. Doesn't this sound familiar to you Brits? However after Martin finally took over from Jean Chretien he crashed and burned, but unlike Gordon Brown didn't last long enough to have a financial crisis to show up where he could show off his expertise.
Daschlegate and protectionism 7:05pm on 05 Feb 2009 Remember the news reports comparing Obama with Abraham Lincoln? Bringing rivals into his close circle. Now those rivals - Daschle, Richardson etc., continue to become discredited, early on in the presidency when it is too early to matter, and sidelined from the future, and it appears to be their own fault. So, perhaps Obama is a better politician and sophist than even you suggested.
Hagel questions Palin's experience 07:58am on 19 Sep 2008 That being said, don't forget Obama's running mate said the same thing about Obama, and suggested that Clinton would have been a better choice.
Hagel questions Palin's experience 07:55am on 19 Sep 2008 Is it important? Generally speaking, people vote for Vice-presidents. Palin may be an exception. But they DEFINATELY don't vote against Vice-presidents.
Lotta sense on Palin 6:21pm on 16 Sep 2008 Its been said time and time again, people don't vote for Vice Presidents. The Sarah Palin Phenomenon may fail when the media gets bored, but what of it? in the mean time they've energized their base, gotten a fair amount of free publicity that the McCain campaign definately needed and most importantly they will have completely changed the discussion about McCain, negating all of Obama's claims of him being of the old order (now he's a false-reformer according to Obama), greatly distances himself from Bush and put the Democrats on the defensive.
TV moment of truth 7:02pm on 07 May 2008 So I'm all happy I'm finally able to read a post in time to have my comment up and have it actually get read... and what do you know... this wonderful youtube video has been... banned... along with all other youtube videos. Yeah for Turkey. Don't suppose you could provide an alternate link?

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