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What's the deal with Mayor Rob Ford??

Started by OttoVonBismarck, November 04, 2013, 03:09:31 PM

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Eddie Teach

Quote from: viper37 on May 02, 2014, 01:30:56 AM
it's up the good people of Toronto to decide if they want him as their mayor.

It's mainly up to their neighbors.
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Malthus

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Josephus

Civis Romanus Sum<br /><br />"My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world." Jack Layton 1950-2011

Josephus

Civis Romanus Sum<br /><br />"My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world." Jack Layton 1950-2011

Malthus

Quote from: Josephus on May 09, 2014, 09:21:22 PM
Ford's wild and crazy night (warning links to a Toronto Star article...not for cynics)

http://www.thestar.com/news/insight/2014/05/09/rob_ford_one_wild_night_in_march.html

Sounds like a fun guy to party with ... if you don't mind the occasional punch in the face.  :D

Real hospitable, too. Why, he'll offer to share his wife.
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane—Marcus Aurelius

Caliga

0 Ed Anger Disapproval Points

HVC

Being lazy is bad; unless you still get what you want, then it's called "patience".
Hubris must be punished. Severely.

Malthus

Rob Ford has pulled out of the mayoral race because of his stomach tumor - to be replaced by his brother, Doug Ford.

However, Rob is still running for councellor - his nephew, Mike Ford, has withdrawn to make a place for him.

A general shuffling of the Fords.
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane—Marcus Aurelius

derspiess

"If you can play a guitar and harmonica at the same time, like Bob Dylan or Neil Young, you're a genius. But make that extra bit of effort and strap some cymbals to your knees, suddenly people want to get the hell away from you."  --Rich Hall

Malthus

It will be interesting to see if Doug polls better or worse than Rob.
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane—Marcus Aurelius

derspiess

"If you can play a guitar and harmonica at the same time, like Bob Dylan or Neil Young, you're a genius. But make that extra bit of effort and strap some cymbals to your knees, suddenly people want to get the hell away from you."  --Rich Hall

Malthus

Quote from: derspiess on September 12, 2014, 03:11:25 PM
Well he can't be half as entertaining.

They both have exactly the same policies (the two more or less formed a unit). So the issue is whether his brother's - entertaining - habits helped him politically, or hurn him politcally.

My own theory is that part of Rob Ford's appeal was exactly that he drove his enemies (meaning, most of us  :P ) nuts with his reprehensible antics, and that this actually made his followers like him the more - that he was, in effect, trolling us (albeit not wholly conciously): as in 'look at those effite downtown elitists clutching their pearls and fainting as our "bad boy from the 'burbs" Rob gets wasted and stirs up shit'. Doug lacks that bizzare form of charisma.
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane—Marcus Aurelius

Admiral Yi

What kind of third world tin pot dictatorship are you guys running up there?

Malthus

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane—Marcus Aurelius

derspiess

Quote from: Malthus on September 12, 2014, 03:13:40 PM
My own theory is that part of Rob Ford's appeal was exactly that he drove his enemies (meaning, most of us  :P ) nuts with his reprehensible antics, and that this actually made his followers like him the more - that he was, in effect, trolling us (albeit not wholly conciously): as in 'look at those effite downtown elitists clutching their pearls and fainting as our "bad boy from the 'burbs" Rob gets wasted and stirs up shit'. Doug lacks that bizzare form of charisma.

I can totally see that.
"If you can play a guitar and harmonica at the same time, like Bob Dylan or Neil Young, you're a genius. But make that extra bit of effort and strap some cymbals to your knees, suddenly people want to get the hell away from you."  --Rich Hall