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>> Looking back at 13 years of 'Ralph's World'
>>
>> If you give people what they want, chances are they'll forgive you if
>> you sometimes act like a boob, or a petulant teenager, or lose your
>> temper and yell at people or throw stuff.
>>
>> by Shannon Phillips
>> September 29, 2006
>>

> The article leaves out the fact that the oposition parties in Alberta with
> one exception have been truly atrocious. The only exception was Decore, when
> he ran the Liberals actually did very well. Since then they've had one bad
> leader after another. They gravitate to extremist policy after extremist
> policy. For example the privitization of the liquor stores was a huge
> success but for years the Liberals railed against it even knowing how popular
> it was with Albertans. They kept fighting things like the closing of the old
> general hospital even though most Calgaians didn't care(hospital was old and
> hard to get to, no parking...) or were glad to see it gone. People want
> hospital near where they live not downtown. Anyway my point is Ralph's
> success had as much to do with his (awful) opponents as with his policies.