Harvard Gives Canuckis an 'F' in Voting

Canadians rejected the Iggy ex machina the Liberals tried to foist on them, and the folks who are taking it the hardest don't even live in Canada:

Boston's chattering classes are struggling with the stunning political defeat of one of Harvard's most popular academics at the hands of Canadian voters, painting Michael Ignatieff's historic loss as Liberal leader as a new low in Canadian politics.

A series of editorials and articles published this week in the Harvard Crimson, Boston Globe and elsewhere has blamed Canadians for being closed-minded and anti-American when they handed Mr. Ignatieff and the Liberals the party's worst defeat in history.

"Harvard sees itself as the centre of the universe, so I'm sure it felt it very deeply," said Graham Wilson, chair of Boston University's department of political science...

No doubt. But it appears that without even knowing it, Canackis took to heart William F. Buckley's quip about his preference for being governed by the first several hundred names in the Boston phone book than by the faculty of Harvard.