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Jenn Writes

Writing my way through life, one word at a time.

Word Wednesday – Election 42 Edition

August 12, 2015 by koalateagirl

Unless you’ve been living under a rock (or aren’t Canadian), you will have heard that a general election has been called for October 19th 2015. The election period is an unusually long 12 weeks (most are considerably shorter) and I’m already sick of the rhetoric. It’s like the old joke – how can you tell when a politician is lying? His (or her) lips are moving. I will vote come election day, because I was raised to believe that they who do not vote have no right to complain about the government.  Since I happen to quite enjoy complaining about the government, I have to vote. I’m fully prepared to pay more attention to the election – once the summer is over. I have a limited attention span for political doublespeak and it’s definitely not 12 weeks long!

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Filed Under: Grammar Tagged With: Canada, debate, Election, lies, politics, prevarication, vote, Word Wednesday

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