Comments on: My Second Biggest Mistake http://www.walrusmagazine.com/blogs/2007/12/14/my-second-biggest-mistake/ Fearless. Thoughtful. Witty. Canadian. And Opinionated. Thu, 04 Dec 2008 18:51:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Miles More http://www.walrusmagazine.com/blogs/2007/12/14/my-second-biggest-mistake/#comment-2439 Miles More Sat, 22 Dec 2007 04:45:22 +0000 http://www.walrusmagazine.com/blogs/2007/12/14/my-second-biggest-mistake/#comment-2439 Well this is a with-it post, with interesting similarities across five cases. How clever. There is one important difference of Mulroney to the base cases. For Eve, Corleone, Profumo and Nixon, each was on their respective acropolis when each made their biggest mistake. Mulroney, on the other hand, needed Schreiber's help to make it up to the the PMO. Arguably, if Karlheinz had not financed the fly-ins from QC to the PC convention, Joe Clark would have gone on to an illustrious career as kindly but bumbling Tory complement to Pearson. Well this is a with-it post, with interesting similarities across five cases. How clever.

There is one important difference of Mulroney to the base cases. For Eve, Corleone, Profumo and Nixon, each was on their respective acropolis when each made their biggest mistake. Mulroney, on the other hand, needed Schreiber’s help to make it up to the the PMO.

Arguably, if Karlheinz had not financed the fly-ins from QC to the PC convention, Joe Clark would have gone on to an illustrious career as kindly but bumbling Tory complement to Pearson.

]]> By: Sean P. http://www.walrusmagazine.com/blogs/2007/12/14/my-second-biggest-mistake/#comment-2423 Sean P. Mon, 17 Dec 2007 18:14:53 +0000 http://www.walrusmagazine.com/blogs/2007/12/14/my-second-biggest-mistake/#comment-2423 “My biggest mistake in life, by far, was ever agreeing to play with those cute little puppies in the first place,â€? Mr. Vick said. In a rare moment of openness, he then conceded that maiming, torturing and killing them was “almost certainlyâ€? top five. “But let’s be honest,â€? he added, “PETA’s reaction was a little extreme." “My biggest mistake in life, by far, was ever agreeing to play with those cute little puppies in the first place,â€? Mr. Vick said. In a rare moment of openness, he then conceded that maiming, torturing and killing them was “almost certainlyâ€? top five. “But let’s be honest,â€? he added, “PETA’s reaction was a little extreme.”

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