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Michael Ignatieff

Posted February 20, 2009, 18:02 ET Comments Off

I was amused to see that, when he met Michael Ignatieff, Obama seems to have spent most of his time talking about friends they have in common. Not surprising, since Ignatieff knows everyone. I mean everyone. Well, at least 6 billion people anyway.

I once received a change of address email from him, with many hundred of cc’s. Kofi Annan. Salman Rushdie. Martin Amis. Had Obama been anyone then, he also would have been on it.

Michael is an exceptionally decent person, and easiest the most attractive leader of the Liberal Party of Canada since Trudeau. Scratch that, I mean since Laurier. Even non-Grits might take some pride in him, as I do. He lectured for my Center twice, once on Simone Weil and once on nationalism, a bravura performance in both cases.

A trivia question: how many politicians do you know who could lecture on Weil?

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