I do apologize, sir.

We also get the Air Canada customer service reps we deserve. Screw them, too.

As for Ralph “Jughead” Klein, I can’t deny that he brought great entertainment value to the job, which is more than can be said for his successor.

Terrific idea. What would you install in their place?

It’s true that there are some crazy ones out there, but there are several that do their level best to be decent public servants. The problem is that the wackos get all the attention. And then the public gets the “screw them all” line going, and what do you think that does to the decent folk who might make decent politicians? It tells them to stay the hell out of the fray.

We get the politicians we deserve.

As for Ralph Klein, he was weird by times, and rude, and drunk, etc., but damn, I still like the guy. Can’t help myself.

It bears mentioning, by the way, that Ralph Klein was, in many ways, essentially a male Sarah Palin (without the attractive looks): he pandered to the rural conservative huntin’/fishin’/Bible-thumpin’ vote, railed against the ‘elites’ and the educated, and rode massive oil royalties to a successful Provincial economy. Oh, and also like Palin, he was a sportscaster and mayor (albeit of a substantial city, itself larger in population than all of Alaska).

Politicians. Screw the lot of ‘em.