In an age where every race and both sexes can vote, gay marriage has been accepted as commonplace, and The United States of America just elected its first African-American president, we are perhaps closer to true democratic freedom than ever before. How disturbing that an intelligent and deeply passionate man, soft-spoken with a heavy French-Canadian accent, can be made to look like a poor leader at best and an idiot at worst in front of thirty million people.
Perhaps it doesn’t matter if you’re straight or gay, male or female, black or white, but brains still has yet to overcome brawn in the public’s shallow eye.
Farewell, Stéphane Dion.
-Sean.
PS: This was published in The Calgary Herald on December 13, 2008. See Here: http://www.calgaryherald.com/opinion/letters/Adieu/1072299/story.html
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