Tremble, oh Manitoba, oh Nunavut, oh mighty Quebec for thy remarks have been overheard and repeated on the Yahoo portal frontpage.

At least, Herb Dhaliwal’s remarks regarding Bush’s lack of “statesman” skills have been noticed. Yahoo has a Rueters article “Bush Failed to Act as Statesman-Canadian Minister” listed as one of it’s shortlist of News stories that are linked to on the yahoo.com portal.

“I think he has let not only Americans but the world down by not being a statesman as people expect of someone who is president of a superpower.”

The nice thing about this comment is that it was made in a public place, directly at journalists, so there’ll be no qualifying and conditionalizing of it. The not-so-nice thing is that calling Bush “not a statesman” is like knocking Augusto Pinochet for his poor singing voice. Statesmanship isn’t exactly the issue. Imperial bloodthirstiness doesn’t break for diplomacy and I think we all knew that.

But hey, every little thing.