Buffy/TWW plot bunny, and the Canadian politics

[scrollgirl]

Ah, the Liberal leadership convention. My dad is watching the speeches on TV. Sadly, I don't care enough to watch though I'll probably skim the news later for highlights. I've been spoiled by Martin Sheen and all the fabulous cast of The West Wing, and by Sorkin's stirring speeches, because real politicians can't help but sound insincere and

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[ponygirl2000]

Scroll! I'm shocked you aren't totally into the Liberal convention. Where's your slash lens? Two university roommates and lifelong friends now battling it out for party leadership, with all sorts of back-stabbing and possible last minute reconciliations, tensions running high -- I dare not go any further because I'm still scarred from seeing Bob Rae's white tushie jumping into that lake with Rick Mercer.

[scrollgirl]

I dare not go any further because I'm still scarred from seeing Bob Rae's white tushie jumping into that lake with Rick Mercer.

Dear God. I think I'm scarred just *reading your comment*. Gah!

Oh Liberal party, I want to believe. I really do. I just find the kind of speechifying we get at conventions kind of depressing because it sounds like so much rhetoric. I mean, even if they believe in what they're saying, it sounds hollow to me.