{"id":1084,"date":"2021-04-22T09:15:46","date_gmt":"2021-04-22T13:15:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=1084"},"modified":"2021-04-22T09:36:16","modified_gmt":"2021-04-22T13:36:16","slug":"more-political-musings-from-%e2%80%9cthe-chief%e2%80%9d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=1084","title":{"rendered":"More political musings from \u201cThe Chief\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-13262\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Diefenbaker3-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Diefenbaker3-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Diefenbaker3-624x414.jpg 624w, https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Diefenbaker3.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;\">I<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;\"> don&#8217;t campaign. I just visit with the people.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;\">Nothing I ever do is political. <\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;\">I never say anything provocative.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;\">I do not say that everything I did was right, but what I do say, Mr. Speaker, is that what I did was honest.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;\">I was criticized for being too much concerned with the average Canadians. I can&#8217;t help that; I am one of them!<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;\">The Liberals are the flying saucers of politics. No one can make head nor tail of them and they never are seen twice in the same place.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-13261\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Diefenbaker2-280x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"280\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Diefenbaker2-280x300.jpg 280w, https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Diefenbaker2.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 280px) 100vw, 280px\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Everyone is against me &#8211; except the people!<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;ve lived history. I&#8217;ve made history, and I know I&#8217;ll have my place in history. That&#8217;s not egoism.<\/li>\n<li>For an average Canadian, being chosen as leader of a nation gives one a feeling impossible to describe. You feel a sense of loneliness.<\/li>\n<li>I would never have been Prime Minister if the Gallup poll were right.<\/li>\n<li>My friends, you say, &#8216;Give &#8217;em hell, John!&#8217; I never do that. I tell the truth and it sounds like hell. It simply sounds that way to the Grits.<\/li>\n<li>Sir John A. Macdonald gave his life to this party. He opened the West. he saw Canada from east to west. I see a new Canada &#8211; a Canada of the North!<\/li>\n<li>Never in Canadian history has there been a government so prone to be prone.<\/li>\n<li>Criticism is sometimes necessary to create public opinion, but use discretion.<\/li>\n<li>The Conservative party will be the national party; it is the party which founded Confederation and the party that will save Confederation&#8230;. It is my intention to unite all Canadians from the Atlantic to the Pacific, under the banner of patriotism.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13263\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Diefenbaker4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"258\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Chris George<\/em><\/strong><em>\u00a0is an Ottawa-based government affairs advisor and wordsmith, president of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cgacommunications.com\/m\/\">CG&amp;A COMMUNICATIONS<\/a>. Contact:\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:ChrisG.George@gmail.com\">ChrisG.George@gmail.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; I don&#8217;t campaign. I just visit with the people. Nothing I ever do is political. I never say anything provocative. I do not say that everything I did was right, but what I do say, Mr. Speaker, is that what I did was honest. I was criticized for being too much concerned with the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,11],"tags":[32],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1084"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1084"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13264,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1084\/revisions\/13264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}