{"id":14126,"date":"2012-03-17T11:22:34","date_gmt":"2012-03-17T16:22:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=14126"},"modified":"2012-03-17T11:22:34","modified_gmt":"2012-03-17T16:22:34","slug":"the-globe-mail-criticizes-ed-broadbent-for-still-having-opinions-at-his-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2012\/03\/17\/the-globe-mail-criticizes-ed-broadbent-for-still-having-opinions-at-his-age\/","title":{"rendered":"The <em>Globe &amp; Mail<\/em> criticizes Ed Broadbent for still having opinions at his age"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A fascinating editorial at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/news\/opinions\/editorials\/former-ndp-leader-ed-broadbent-compromises-elder-statesmanship\/article2372387\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Globe and Mail<\/em><\/a> stops just short of telling Mr. Broadbent that his role as &#8220;elder statesman&#8221; of the NDP requires him to take on the political opinions of the royal family &mdash; that is, none expressed in public.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Ed Broadbent, by his withering attacks on NDP leadership front-runner Thomas Mulcair, has forfeited his role as elder statesman of the party in favour of that of a cranky partisan.<\/p>\n<p>A widely respected figure well beyond the NDP membership, Mr. Broadbent took sides early in the campaign when he endorsed former party president Brian Topp, and this week he spoke of Mr. Topp\u2019s abilities in rapturous language: \u201cHis depth, his intelligence, his commitment to the party, his strategic sense, his commitment to social democracy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>[. . .]<\/p>\n<p>No doubt Mr. Broadbent felt he had a responsibility to speak out. But whatever harm he has done to Mr. Mulcair &mdash; and it is unclear how much influence the former leader retains &mdash; there is as great a risk of aggravating divisions and harming the party\u2019s ability to unite behind the new leader. That would be a sorry addendum to his legacy.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Or, in brief, &#8220;Can someone get grampaw Ed his medicine? He&#8217;s bothering the guests.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A fascinating editorial at the Globe and Mail stops just short of telling Mr. Broadbent that his role as &#8220;elder statesman&#8221; of the NDP requires him to take on the political opinions of the royal family &mdash; that is, none expressed in public. Ed Broadbent, by his withering attacks on NDP leadership front-runner Thomas Mulcair, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,28,53],"tags":[86,572,798],"class_list":["post-14126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","category-media","category-politics","tag-criticism","tag-leadership","tag-ndp"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-3FQ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14126"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14127,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14126\/revisions\/14127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}