Canada's Foreign Minister hugs "good friend" and constant travelling companion
Rabbi Chaim Mendelsohn.
Foreign Minister John Baird seems to waddle from one controversy to another.
Most recently he has come under attack from the know-nothing anti-semites in the Canadian media.
Baird, as regular readers will recall, was the buffoon who allowed himself to be photographed during a trip to NATO operations HQ last year signing bombs that were to be dropped on loyalist targets in Libya.
A Foreign Minister autographing bombs? How gauche is that?
Since that trip Harper's team has assigned Rabbi Mendelsohn to travel with Baird on all overseas trips to ensure that the foolishness doesn't get out of hand.
Now the Baird-haters are all over the fact that he used his influence as a cabinet minister to funnel government money to Mendelsohn's Chabad Lubovitch over the objections of his own staff.
But even the naysayers must admit that Baird has been somewhat less controversial since Mendelsohn has been keeping him on a leash.
Sure, it was a little embarrassing to hear Baird spout non-stop about his "personal rabbi" on his recent trip to Israel, but imagine what a fool he might have made of himself had the good rabbi not been present!
And his speech this week claiming that Iran was "months away" from a nuclear weapon sounded suspiciously as though the rabbi might have written it.
No matter. Being Foreign Minister of a country that has ambitions to "punch above its weight" as the papers remind us every other day is no job for imbeciles.
Thank God we've got Rabbi Mendelsohn to keep an eye on things, at least until the next cabinet shuffle.
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