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arikara

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11. Sainthood isn't conferred on people

Reply to applegrove (Reply #8)

Fri Apr 11, 2014, 06:43 PM

Apr 2014

just because they die.

I'm sure his family and friends loved him a lot, and they have my condolences for his loss. However, Flaherty was a top tier conservative and responsible for making life harder for a very many people. A person's history shouldn't be rewritten when they die.

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"Jim Flaherty, former finance minister, dead at 64" [View all] applegrove Apr 2014 OP

We haven't stayed away from fundamentalism. Stephen Harper is a neo-con, a bigot, PDJane Apr 2014 #1

Oh I agree Stephen Harper is a fundie. I'm just thankful Flaherty was applegrove Apr 2014 #2

This is true....I concede the point. PDJane Apr 2014 #3

Common CHIMO Apr 2014 #4

Flaherty created a housing bubble potentially worse than the US Fiendish Thingy Apr 2014 #5

Oh yeah. There was bad there. But he could have gone all fundie applegrove Apr 2014 #6

Definitely not worse than the US laundry_queen Apr 2014 #9

Flaherty - An Enemy of the People RedSock Apr 2014 #7

I was going to say that...he joined Harris in 1997. But I thought - the man is dead. applegrove Apr 2014 #8

Sainthood isn't conferred on people arikara Apr 2014 #11

Point taken. I didn't mean to imply he was a saint. applegrove Apr 2014 #12

I know you didn't mean that arikara Apr 2014 #15

Nope, no , no way, no, No, ugh, wrong. Joe Shlabotnik Apr 2014 #10

And Stephen Harper is making it into a State Funeral. Politics never stops. Why applegrove Apr 2014 #13

aw, Joe Shlabotnik Apr 2014 #14