Ottawa Minute

I'm in Ottawa, just finished a work-related seminar. Nevertheless, it's surprisingly non-partisan here in the nation's capital. No smearings of campaign slogans or MP posters or missing documents. I guess I had assumed Harper and the choir would be painting the town red, so to speak.

I've been buried in the books since Sunday, so I am just emerging in to the current state of the federal campaign. Here are my impressions of what has happened since the writ was dropped:
1. May was voted off of the election island (2 voted against her out of a possible 4?)
2. Harper crapped on Dion, quickly wiped it off, then apologized for it.
3. Dion said he doesn't listen to English music very well.
4. Harper promises to cut a tax on burning fossil fuels - claiming David Suzuki wanted it this way.
5. May gets re-introduced to the Big Brother household by a surprise twist in the election rules!
6. Politics on CBC states Harper has run a very careful and strategic campaign so far.

Now, I may be slightly off on all of the above 5 items, but why did Don Newman let his press gallery "puff" up Harper without interjecting about ignoring his own (election) law, the Puffin Incident, or the fact that Harper's lying when he says that "Dion will increase the GST and eliminate the child care benefit"? The Tory campaign seems to be struggling to control the agenda, as they so desperately need to do, yet it's only 72 hours old?

I think Harper will be cleaning up a lot more off himself soon enough.