The long kick goodbye

The worst ever premier Dalton McGuinty just can't say goodbye to all us Ontarians he has kicked around during his  time as the premier of this province.

Christina Blizzard writing at SunNews:
.... First there was his emotional farewell on Oct. 15.  
Surrounded by colleagues in the government caucus room at Queen’s and with his wife, Terri, at his side, Premier Dalton McGuinty took his leave of politics and disappeared into the night.
Then there was the Our Lady of the Begonias goodbye, wherein reporters hauled their way to a greenhouse on the Holland Marsh to ask questions at what was widely tipped to be his last media availability.



Then, oops. Apparently, he had one more word for the teachers, so he called a hastily arranged news conference the next morning to plead with teachers to keep their anger with the government out of the classroom.
Then he waved goodbye as he departed for one last tour of China — presumably to say goodbye to all our manufacturing jobs as they’re shipped overseas to cheap and dirty labour in that smog-bound country.
Turns out, he was just kidding about saying goodbye.

He returned this week and held another news conference in Cambridge Wednesday, this time with Prime Minister Stephen Harper, to announce a $34 million provincial-federal investment in the Lexus RX450H hybrid SUV — which retails around $50,000.
So reporters sat in gridlock in our non-luxury cars for an hour and a half each way, pondering why any government would want more cars on already congested roads.
Once McGuinty had answered questions there, he hi-tailed it back to Queen’s Park, where he bid the reporters who hadn’t sat in the aforementioned gridlock a fond farewell.

Friday night, there’s an entire festival of farewell at Maple Leaf Gardens.

Harper was left in the awkward position of being the straight guy for a premier who just won’t go.
Still, Harper managed to be gracious, saying the constraints of office often make for odd bedfellows in politics.
“One of the little secrets of politics is that once you’re burdened with the responsibilities of office, what you find is that all people who have those responsibilities share a lot of the same things,” Harper said.
“They share common challenges, they share common opportunities, they share common problems, common limitations,” he said................