ONDP: Can Balance a Budget in Heels!

And she's a better woman than you'll ever be.

Holy crap!  Whose idea was this??

Maysie wrote:

And Fidel and Cueball, you both need to stop sniping at each other. Now.

I gather Maysie's warning to cueball is "pre-emptive" as he-so far- hasn't attacked Fidel! 

Yeah, it was post-emptive.

Wow, what a sexist ad. This is slight thread drift, but does anyone else hate high heels out there? I have no desire to ever be a politician, but if I were I would continue to completely shun heels. Why are women continually expected to wear heels for certain roles/functions? They are horrible on the feet, the back and make a woman's feet ache. 

So, yeah. I hate this ad.

ditto re: pantyhose!

Yes, it is sexist on a number of levels. For one, they are making it all about the fact that she is a woman, rather than her accomplishments, competence, etc. And they are simultaneously implying "wow...she can balance a budget even as a women and looking pretty! She may be into boring old work and competence, but she would never risk not living up to society's standards of female beauty" 

Maybe I am reading too much into it, but those are the messages I get. Not a good ad for little girls. 

Appalling...I do think this ad will be pulled quickly, but there are some other ones that are ideologically problematic for a social democratic party, IMV, that also appeared.

Cueball wrote:

I don't think that calling Fidel on his racist use of the term "Muj" to describe Islamic militants equates with sniping.

[meandering off topic in defence of me]As far as I'm concerned the term mooj is a pejorative for a group of right wing misogynists in the extreme. Except for Ahmed Shah Massood, a Tajiki mujihadeen leader, most of the USAs other mooj proxies and drug barons they propped up with aid and weapons had no widespread popular support in Afghanistan, and they still have none today. And this is the very reason why the CIA chose to prop-up the right wing extremists that they did, and it's because the CIA knew that without billions of dollars in US taxpayers money and weapons, the very right wing and misogynist mooj possessed no real power or authority over Afghans without the CIA and ISI backing them. IOW's they could be controlled.

Today elections are crooked and marred by violence as are typical of US-managed elections around the third world. Before Zbigniew and Zia and senator Charlie Wilson's covert interventions in Afganistan by July of 1979, those right wing extremists were nothing to Afghans and going nowhere fast.[/defending myself]

Why is this thread still open?

Ya I think this is just another run of the mill anti-NDP thread in poor taste.

There should be more anti-Pinocchio threads. I believe the UN has chided our very rightwing Liberal Party placeholders for Bay Street at Queen's Park for violating women's rights in the northern colony of Ontariariario.

The problem is the messaging of these posters indicates that the NDP intends to run to the right in next year's election. There's no content here except for fiscal conservatism. These ads could easily have been designed for the Liberals under Lyn McLeod or even the Tories under Kim Campbell (or for that matter, Margaret Thatcher).

It's fine to run against the HST but if that's the sole message then you might as well tell people to vote Tory.

None of these look like Horwath to me. 

Aristotleded24 wrote:

Why is this thread still open?

Because it's a totally legitimate discussion?

Fidel wrote:

Where did these photos even they come from? I usually source any photos I nail up on this site.

These posters were on display at ONDP Provincial Council this weekend. There was a fourth one that said "Would rather plant a tree than hug them"

I know the posters are bad but I didn't think some people would actually try to deny their authenticity.

Truth be told, I dropped by Provincial Council this weekend, saw the posters on display (you couldn't miss them, they were the first thing you saw when you got off the escalator), took pics with my cell phone and sent them to Michael Laxer who put them up on his Facebook page.

I guess I shouldn't be too surprised that some people are trying to stuff the posters down the memory hole, after all provincial council was taking place one floor up from the Chestnut Tree Cafe.

No, the posters are 100% the work of the NDP and whatever ad agency the party hired though they might have well been done for the Liberals or Tories. Put McGuinty or Hudak in a pair of high heels and those parties could easily use the same slogans.

The top one says Toronto Star at the bottom. Can't find anything on TorStar's site. Smells fishy to me.

I'm suggesting the thread be closed down for public safety's sake. It smells awful.

aka Mycroft wrote:

Fidel wrote:

The top one says Toronto Star at the bottom. Can't find anything on TorStar's site. Smells fishy to me.

Are you suggesting the NDP faked the quote?

 

No I'm suggesting someone else not associated with the NDP faked those photos.

I had great hopes for Andrea Horwath when she disassociated the ONDP from the anti-democratic stunt of Cheri DiNovo. If aka M is right, she is now being led by the nose by the Paul Summerville wing of wannabe Liberal spin doctors. That is unfortunate. It's not my province, but hopefully, if NDP supporters in Ontario can get past denial, they can phone or visit Ms. Horwath and tell her to shape up or ship out. I'm still quite optimistic about her, from afar.

Who's desperate? I think if anyone's desperate in Ontario, it's Pinocchio McGuilty and his scandal plagued Liberal government driving us all into a debt hole. We'll all be freezing in the dark before very long at this rate.

double post

Ok, so you're calling me a liar then. I await your retraction and apology. Unitl then, perhaps the moderators will consider suspending you from Babble?

Have you ever been to 89 Chestnut?

Hey Mycroft - don't be too bothered when Fidel says the pictures are phony. He also thinks the war in Afghanistan is phony.