- Harper: “Let me be perfectly clear . . . " - Déjà vu Nixon

Posted: 12:10 PM on March 26, 2011
Liberal campaign, Ignatieff rules out coalition, Jane Taber, Mar. 26, 2011
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/ignatieff-rules-out-coalition/article1958015/

Harper: “Let me be perfectly clear . . . "

That reminds me of Richard M. Nixon

The parallels between Harper and Nixon are scary, when you think about it

"but when the president does it that means that it is not illegal"
Richard Nixon,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejvyDn1TPr8

It's scary how close that is to

Harper " I make the rules"
(cbc, August 26, 2010)

How about

[Nixon] "We disagree on that.

I did not commit, in my view, an impeachable offence. Now, the House has ruled overwhelmingly that I did. . . . "
(David Frost's interview with Richard Nixon broadcast in May 1977)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2007/sep/07/greatinterviews1

Sound just like Harper's denial of his government's Canadian brand of Impeachment

"And I pledge to you tonight, from this office, that I will do everything in my power to ensure that the guilty are brought to justice and that such abuses are purged from our political processes in the years to come . . . "
Nixon's First Watergate Speech. (30 April 1973) - http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Richard_Nixon
(there's a parallel there somewhere, the irony's certainly there)

The first use I could find of “Let me be perfectly clear . . . ":

"and I want to make this particularly clear, that no contributor to this fund, no contributor to any of my campaigns, has ever received any consideration that he would not have received as an ordinary constituent."
(http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/richardnixoncheckers.html)

Applicable - you judge

Oh and by the way, did I mention

“He lied this morning,” Duceppe said of Harper. “He should own up.”
(Montreal Gazette, 26 Mar.'11)

Look for Harper looking right into the camera and with the double 'V' signs saying

"I am not a liar"

excerpt: Lloyd MacILquham cicblog.com/comments.html