Is This Man a Complete Cad?
Might well be. If he's not a cad, he's certainly not the picture of male chivalry. Nor does he exemplify the best characteristics of a mature male, comfortable in who and what he has become. He's behaving, in fact, like a resentful youth, incapable of coming to grips with the reality that the woman with whom he had a fairly solid liaison is no longer available to him because she has a mind of her own and was willing to trade him in for her own imperatives, right or wrong?In the area of right or wrong, there's been much said, much written about what compelled Belinda Stronach to abandon the Conservatives in favour of the Liberals. At that juncture it appeared that the Liberals might be closer to the finish line than the Conservatives. Ms. Stronach may be cursed with short-term vision, and she's now paying for that, in a manner of speaking. Unless she prefers sitting things out as an opposition backbencher, to the rather more glorious position of a cabinet position in government.
The thing of it is, Peter MacKay is no longer an adolescent and it is unbecoming of him to behave like one. All the more so when he is a key figure in the current government of Canada. All the more so, one cannot stress sufficiently, when he occupies the high profile position of Minister of Foreign Affairs. Can anyone really take seriously any pronouncements enunciated by this man in representing the government on foreign affairs situations when he is personally and too-publicly incapable of restraining himself from behaving like a spoiled child?
And then there is Belinda Stronach. It's kind of tough to feel much sympathy for a woman whose financial resources are literally infinite, whose opportunities to succeed can be liberally purchased, whose potential as a pal in a partnership for life are self-evident but who continues to make rather questionable decisions about the direction in which she chooses her life to proceed.
There's the matter of several failed marriages; big deal, that's her affair. Failed relationships happen, people are people - are people unwilling to accommodate themselves to others' needs, valuing their own far more - as evidenced by the MacKay/Stronach romance and its unhappy end. If there is one constant in society and its values, however, there is the little matter of the seriousness of involvement in destroying a marriage which comes complete with children.
Ms. Stronach denies this is the case with her latest entanglement, and this may be so, but regardless of what she asserts, there is a wife, children and a family which is disintegrating and she's at the other end of the triangle.
Pity you've been hard done by, Belinda; public embarrassment is always such a nuisance.
Pity you've got such a lot of growing up to do, Peter; your government cannot afford such public demonstrations of inadequacy.
posted by Pieface @ Sunday, October 22, 2006
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