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‘by George Barry To begin with, I would like to inform__

as to my intent in writing/this drivel,

I will, via this column, be giving my opinions on whatever issues, events or people that

happen to interest me. As for/you, dear reader, I could not possibly care less. This is my own personal little soapbox and if you want your

own

insignificant opinions heard write a

letter to the Editor or get your own space in \ this paper to shoot—off, like I did. But do not write , phone, make obscene gestures to or in any”way threaten me because, frankly moron, I don't give a damn.

So there you have it amigo. These are my opinions; not those of this paper, of God, of Angus MacLean or of your Aunt Fanny. They're

mine, mine, mine! ‘

OK, now that that's all crystal clear I'll get around to my topic for today. Now what could be a better subject for examination in my kick—off column then the man from High River himself, the highest politician in the land, the one, the only, the inimitable Joe Clark! I mean, what can I say about a man who is known to his intimates as the Gerald Ford

of Canadian politics. I'm not saying the man I

is bland or dull but I understand that he has

some with he's down have

of his most stimulating conversations inanimate objects. And I'm not saying dumb but I am told that he once flagged ‘a passing motorist and asked “ Canal ‘ a match"? I think my gas tank 1is~ empty.”

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Well there you have it. Sure my judgements are\ unfair but we human beings are a notorioustu / unfair species, so I'm just following my genetic orders. Anyway, this is a democracy right, so we‘ can throw Joe out if he screws up too badly. Hey, but maybe his monumental asininity is just a front. Perhaps there lurks behind that simple -exterior one of the most vibrant, dynamic and versatile minds of Bur time. And perhaps some day I will be ravished by a marauding group of Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders. .-

But the bottom line, fellow space travellers, is that the essential joke is not on Pierre

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But Hell, the thing of it is, I voted'for , this guy. And what's worse is that given the selection at hand, my decision seemed quite justfiable. Pierre Trudeau, witty, bright, , intelligent man that he is, simply started to piss me off. For me,a common ordinary schlep Pierre Trudeau was about as real as the Man tr from Glad. He was Mr. Perfect, He had a deep / knowledge of everything that was important, except for reality. I don't know if this is a just criticism, but it's the way that I felt as I watched the election campaign unfdld.

There was Trudeau in his gunslinger pose, ~wrapping himself in the flag. My God, it looked \ like he was going to deliver the Sermon on the Mount, part’2” was a mixture of the usual slippery Trudeau cleverness and rhetoric. And then you had poor \ old Joe, bumbling along so that you could almost give him your vote out of pity. It might be the only break he'd ever get. And then there's Ed.

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Howick pants are pure cotton- Theyllshrnﬂcalhﬂeinthe wash. But when you put them back on, the seat will stretch backhnoshape.Yourshape Howicks mould to the curves of ‘ yourbody. , .

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on all of us. On me, on you, on each and every citizen of this alleged nation. In the stark cold reality of the economic world, Canada is just a branch plant of the foreign powers—thatebe. So._ gang, don't lose too much sleep over Quebec Seperatism_or any of that jive because a country has to exist before it can be broken up. And so it is that Joe can do whatever he likes cause

we Canadians have already been thoroughly raped by foreign interests, primarily our good . neighbours, those money—grubbing, egotisticalv

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