Paul Martin - The price you paid for trying to do 'the right thing'

Paul Martin has finally given up the ghost and made his retreat from politics official... was this the 'politically correct' (no pun intended) amount of time to wait before the big announcement?

Yes Paul, we do appreciate your honesty for digging into that horrible scandal that cost us taxpayer's so dearly - not to mention the cost of the inquiry, with it really luke warm outcome...

Thanks.

And I would really like to know if you actually thought you had a fighting chance of being re-elected - really I would... I must admit those scare ads about Steven Harper WERE pretty amusing, even if you didn't know about them, or authorize them... and yeah, I admit they did have an element of truth to them, especially considering some of the good friends that he has around Caroline and Longview in Alberta... but really! SOLDIERS... MEN WITH GUNS... IN OUR STREETS... IN CANADA.. Give us a break!

Paul, I figure you'll be missed a lot less than say, Peter Warren, a man of GREAT INTEGRITY who ACTUALLY DID speak to the nation - AND listen to them, AND cared enough to try to make good things happen for them...

Yeah, not just a figurehead, or a talking head, or whatever you politicians want to call yourselves. Sorry, but I believe you guys only care about yourselves, and the only reason we peons matter at all is because when you add enough of us together in the polls, you win. Period. After that, we don't matter until the next time... unless maybe some of us are vocal enough, famous enough, or yeah, sometimes even pathetic enough, to make you notice and take on our cause...

So Goodbye Paul!

Enjoy your perks and your pensions - our treat! (like we could do anything about them anyway.)

And hey! Maybe in a few years you can go and make the 'talk circuit' like good old Bill Clinton recently brought to our forgotten little province (well, forgotten during the last campaign, anyway) of Saskatchewan.

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