Michael Ignatieff's Plight

Ah, the wisdom of Aesop.  Do not try to be all things to all people.  Do not try to grasp too much at once.
The Liberals have done just this and the Canadian public see it for what it is -- inauthentic.   And so their failure to capture the attention of Canadians.    But of course,   people are suckers and fall for the more authentic but more dangerous policies of professor Jack Layton and the NDP.   (A reminder to all , especially in British Columbia,  it was under NDP rule that BC faced the shame of becoming a 'have not' province.  We shall never live this down!)

The Boy and the Filberts 


  A BOY put his hand into a pitcher full of filberts.  He grasped
as many as he could possibly hold, but when he tried to pull out
his hand, he was prevented from doing so by the neck of the
pitcher.  Unwilling to lose his filberts, and yet unable to
withdraw his hand, he burst into tears and bitterly lamented his
disappointment.  A bystander said to him, "Be satisfied with half
the quantity, and you will readily draw out your hand."  


 Do not attempt too much at once.  

A lesson for the likes of Michael Ignatieff and before him Paul Martin.