Paul Dewar Is Apparently Going To Rap His Convention Speech

And he is not even slightly funky.

Cullen was quite eloquent re Northern Gateway.  Horwath got in a good line about Bob Rae knowing how to do what's right by Bob Rae.  That got a roar out of some of the Libloggerspresent.  Dewar's skillz, however, are truely inadequate.

Update:  Dewar actually spoke in the end.  His speech didn't impress me much but it made me notice how little french Cullen's presentation contained.  Hmm.  Wonder what this signifiies.

Another update:  The soundtrack to Mulcair's video lead in is mostly white noise, something that sounds like a jack-hammer, and drums.  It is starting to make me angry, which may be the point.

Paul Dewar On Faith And Politics

...from Gruending:

You cannot be a person of faith without being political, says Paul Dewar, the New Democratic Party MP for Ottawa Centre. In early 2009, Dewar spoke to my Faith and Public Life class at the Ottawa School of Theology and Spirituality. “Faith and politics are congruent and we have no option but to be political if we are going to live the gospel,” Dewar said. “We have to constantly question what the Christian message is, and we can never stop trying to change the way things are in society.”

Not an endorsement on my part, obviously.  Although I also have nothing against such sentiments.  I'm a damned empiric, so religious inclinations all strike me as a bit silly.  But if your irrational beliefs inspire you to attempt to do good in the world, rather than, say, bash immigrants, than I will support you accordingly.