by Judi McLeod
February 9, 2004
across this vast nation, media colleagues everywhere are obsessing about overnight Tory Belinda Stronach’s blondeness. Supermarket tabloids tattle about her last month’s alleged skiing rendezvous with Hillary’s hubby, Bill.
But to me, Ms. Stronach, is a bizarre lady of intrigue.
Forget about her loyal ties to prominent Liberals, like daddy’s former corporate vice president of Magna International, Toronto-Danforth MP Dennis Mills, the man who followed last summer’s Rolling Stones SaRS concert, by ratting out on Toronto Island airport expansion.
This time last year, Mills, who Ottawa Life Magazine says "is very close to Belinda Stronach," was throwing the picture of a statue of Pierre Elliott Trudeau up on his ingenuitycanada.com website, as the prelude to night of recognition celebrations with Belinda Stronach as "Master of Ceremonies".
Can there really be any serious doubt that blondie Belinda is a Liberal, dispatched by the Liberals as the sugar and spice wrecking hammer against the advancement of a vulnerable new Conservative Party of Canada? Liberals capable of big tent invasion is hardly a new concept.
But the theme song by which Belinda Stronach was introduced at the provincial Tory’s annual party in Halifax over the weekend, is intriguing, if not bizarre.
"Stronach," according to reporter Brian Flinn, "made a splashy entrance at an event that drew as many people younger than 25 as it did oldguard Tories. She had to shout greetings in the ears of delegates as she carved her way through a crowd of 250 to the guitar riffs of the Rolling Stones oldie, Sympathy for the Devil.
It’s a catchy tune that pulsates energy. Perhaps Belinda never paid much attention to the song’s lyrics:
"Please allow me to introduce myself
I’m a man of wealth and taste
I’ve been around for a long, long year
Stole many a man’s soul and faith
and I was`round when Jesus Christ
Had his moment of doubt and pain
Made damn sure that Pilate
Washed his hands and sealed his fate
Pleased to meet you
Hope you guess my name
But what’s puzzling you
Is the nature of my game
I stuck around St. Petersburg
When I saw it was time for a change
Killed the Czar and his ministers
anastasia screamed in vain
I rode a tank
Held a general’s rank
When the blitzkrieg raged
and the bodies stank
Pleased to meet you
Hope you guess my name, oh yea
I watched with glee
While your kings and queens
Fought for ten decades
For the gods they made
I shouted out,
Who killed the Kennedys
When after all
It was you and me
Let me please introduce myself
I’m a man of wealth and taste
and I laid traps for troubadours
Who get killed before they reach Bombay?
Pleased to meet you
Hope you guessed my name, oh yeah
But what’s puzzling you
Is the nature of my game, oh yeah, get down, baby
Pleased to meet you
Hope you guessed my name, oh yeah
But what’s confusing you
Is just the nature of my game?
Just as every cop is a criminal
and all the sinners saints
as heads is tails
Just call me Lucifer
`Cause I’m in need of some restraint
So if you meet me
Have some courtesy
Have some sympathy, and some taste
Use all your well-learned politesse
Or I’ll lay your soul to waste, um yeah
But what’s puzzling you
Is the nature of my game, um mean it, get down
Woo, who
Oh yeah, get on down
Oh yeah
Oh yeah!
Tell me baby, what’s my name
Tell me honey, can ya guess my name
Tell me baby, what’s my name
I tell you one time, you’re to blame
Ooo, who
Ooo, who
at the end of this devil’s ditty, Stronach thanked youth-wing leaders for an endorsement, but answered indecisively when one young voter called out a question about climate change.
according to media reports, "One young member of the audience, who would only identify herself as Julie, said she had heard too much about Stronach’s appearance, and went to the rally to hear about policies."
"I wanted to see if she had something to say, and she didn’t," the woman said.
Perhaps, Julie, Mick Jagger does all Belinda’s talking for her.
Canada Free Press founding editor Most recent by Judi McLeod is an award-winning journalist with 30 years experience in the print media. Her work has appeared on Newsmax.com, Drudge Report, Foxnews.com, Glenn Beck. Judi can be reached at: judi@canadafreepress.com
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