{"id":706,"date":"2007-01-25T05:23:55","date_gmt":"2007-01-25T10:23:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/blog\/?p=706"},"modified":"2007-01-25T05:23:55","modified_gmt":"2007-01-25T10:23:55","slug":"stephane-dion-just-cant-get-it-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/?p=706","title":{"rendered":"Stephane Dion Just Can&#039;t Get It Right &#8211;  Flip Flops On Marc-Yvon C\u00f4t\u00e9 Remarks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image707\" align=\"right\" src=\"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/01\/flipflop.jpg\" alt=\"FlipFlops\" \/>After the backlash in the press yesterday Citoyen Dion is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/servlet\/story\/RTGAM.20070125.wxliberals25\/BNStory\/National\/home\" target=\"_blank\">backtracking<\/a> on his comments about reinstating banned party members.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Certainly, you cannot exclude forever people who made mistakes,&#8221; he was quoted as saying. &#8220;And someone who has even, I believe, recognized their error.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, Mr. Dion backtracked, insisting that he would have no involvement in reinstating Mr. C\u00f4t\u00e9 and suggesting it probably will not occur.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am not seeking to reopen that issue and there&#8217;s not an application [from Mr. C\u00f4t\u00e9] as far as I know. There is a procedure we follow,&#8221; Mr. Dion said, asserting that party officials would handle any such case. &#8220;I&#8217;m not recommending anything.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Dion is quickly building a reputation as the &#8220;wrong choice&#8221; for Liberal leadership.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Mr. Dion&#8217;s aides acknowledged privately that the leader is trying to bring the controversy to a quick end and is unhappy that his misstep could raise the spectre of the sponsorship scandal again &#8212; noting that his leadership campaign had stressed that he was a veteran Liberal with untainted integrity.<\/p>\n<p>Aides said his comments were an off-the-cuff answer to an unexpected question.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>< sarcasm > That&#8217;s what I want in a leader  &#8230;&#8230;  good solid off the cuff answers!!  < \/sarcasm ><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the backlash in the press yesterday Citoyen Dion is backtracking on his comments about reinstating banned party members. &#8220;Certainly, you cannot exclude forever people who made mistakes,&#8221; he was quoted as saying. &#8220;And someone who has even, I believe, recognized their error.&#8221; Yesterday, Mr. Dion backtracked, insisting that he would have no involvement in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9,82,34,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-and-punishment","category-dion-goofups","category-moonbattery","category-politics-federal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}