Didn't they also once call someone Uncle Joe?

“Darrell Dexter is starting to look like the avuncular Nova Scotia leader,” he said in the early days of the campaign. “It's like Nova Scotians are looking for a friendly uncle, someone you'd like to have over for dinner or a kitchen party.”

Great news of the NDP victory in Nova Scotia. To be fair, Premier Dexter ran the bar at my 200 student college and likely cabinet muckymuck Graham Steele and I played soccer together for law school. Not to mention they are a couple of very practical dedicated Bluenosers. There sorts of pinkos confuse people, however. Some feel that all bad things must be socialist no matter how you have to twist the logic. Some thought the agenda was to take over the banks through lending them into dependency. I like this line from The New York Times: "Taxpayers — many of whom probably never imagined that banks would return their bailout money so soon, if ever —stand to make several billion dollars from their investment in the 10 banks." What a nightmare.