Former Prime Minister Jean Chretien talks with his communications director Peter Donolo in this June 20, 1999, photo.

I’m sick of the H1N1 plague, Act of God, pandemic, curse, Rumsfeld’s gold, whatever you want to call it. It’s just too stupid for words at this point. I simply can’t believe the media coverage of a simple flu bug that causes less damage than SARS did.

So today I’ve decided to laugh my ass off at poor Peter Donolo, who I’ve had the great pleasure of meeting, is a very nice fellow, and probably just accepted the biggest butt-frigging job a communications guru could take.

It makes me laugh to see how relieved Liberals are at the very mention of Peter’s name, like he was the Messiah or something.

I’ll point out a few facts most Liberals (also known as the 20 something crowd) fail to take into consideration:

1. When Peter was brought in to work for JC, Jean Chretien had the advantage of being about as low in the opinion of Canadians as he could go. Iggy, sorry mate, but you have quite a ways to sink yet before everything that happens is all good.

2. Peter was the communications dude for another dude before the advent of cell-phones in every ones pockets (including the kids), and Twitter, or for that matter BlackBerry’s and iPhones. That’s right kiddies, we still had a reason for a pay-phone on every corner during Peter’s stint as the communications director for JC.

3. Peter had a divided right working against itself.

4. Iggy is still surrounded by sycophantic “yes” men and women, and it has not been established yet whether he and Donolo even like each other, much less whether they can work together. Regardless, when you have people like Carolyn Parrish saying nice things about Stephan Harper, you have problems bud.

5. Peter is Jean’s man, Jean is Desmarais Sr.’s man, Bob Rae is Desmarais Sr.’s man, Iggy isn’t Desmarais Sr.’s man. Jean doesn’t like Iggy, Bob doesn’t like Iggy unless it’s a reporter asking him, then they are best of friends. So who is Peter really working for?

Regardless of the Power-Corp tie-in, Peter has to contend with the fact that Iggy’s reputation is completely in tatters right across the nation. There is no fixing it the way he fixed Chretiens sullied image. There is no counting on a divided right hand political spectrum fighting over it’s own votes, there is no way to stop an email, a text message, or the 15 million cellular users in Canada today.

In 1999, Canada had 3.5 million cell phone users, the press was still figuring out how to press “send” on them, blogs didn’t exist, and BlackBerry was the future evolution of a pager the size of a small football and named for the same company “Rim”, online news was fairly limited, and Steve Jobbs had already resigned once as Apples CEO because their market share hadn’t grown in a decade. In 1999, if you owned a pager, you were either in a Medical Profession, a Contractor, or Real Estate Agent. .

10 years ago, even if it is a relatively short time frame, Canadians were simply not bombed with the partisan shots we see in the new media and old media today. Too much information, and at everyone’s finger tips to boot.

Peter, you’re a nice guy, and I hate the fact that you are going to wear this latest Liberal “shit-the-bed” moment, but you are, and there’s not a heck of a lot you can do about it now. Although I know you well enough to know you’ll leave the place a lot cleaner than you inherited it.

To all you spinny Liberal insiders out there (note I just mention the spinny ones, as there are many level headed Liberals too, they just know better than to leave the safety of their homes these days), the only thing you’ve got to look forward to is getting Peter’s foot up your ass. Even if it’s a foregone loss with this leader, you can take solace in the fact that the next leader will have a way better operation as a result of Donolo being there.

In the meantime, I hope you all like chewing rubber, because there are signs in the media that Peter is already shoving #9 butt-plugs in the mouths of Senior Liberals. Get used to it, because he wouldn’t have you around any other way.

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