Comments on: Who is Tom Flanagan?

By: Professor Tom Flanagan: Glib about Murdering Julian Assange | The News blog

Professor Tom Flanagan: Glib about Murdering Julian Assange | The News blog — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 22:46:08 +0000

[...] bought and sold (see also First Nations, Second Thoughts), is a right wing American chicken hawk draft dodger who took advantage of Canada during the Vietnam War. One might expect that someone so averse to [...]

By: wm

wm — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 17:44:50 +0000

What is it about you liberals? You want it both ways. You despise war, supported draft dodgers all the way, but when one of them doesn’t sing from your hymnal, you denigrate him.
What’s the matter, you guys have a problem with other viewpoints? That would be beside your serious problem with being hypocrites.
Suck or blow eh? Not both.

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 22 May 2009 13:26:38 +0000

Rat might have been objecting to the adjective “new.”

By: Bene Diction

Bene Diction — Thu, 21 May 2009 09:01:43 +0000

Sorry Rat, I don’t quite understand what you are getting at.

Flanagan has been a writer and professor of political science.
He worked briefly with Preston Manning in 1993, and then became friends with Stephen Harper, and worked on his campaign in 2004.

Would it help if we had a working definition and agreement of political operative?

Definition: Political campaign staff are the people who formulate and implement the strategy needed to win an election – political operative.

By: The Rat

The Rat — Wed, 20 May 2009 22:30:33 +0000

“A new Tory operative, University of Calgary professor Tom Flanagan. . .”

Man, you better get some historical perspective before you make an utter fool of yourself. Seriously.