"The Liberal party is not fractured. It's very much united." -- Paul Martin, in an interview with the CBC's Don Newman. He also said the party would fight the next election "on our integrity." The full interview, as well as Don's interview with Stephen Harper, is viewable (via RealPlayer) here. UPDATE: Watching Harper in this interview, watching him these past few weeks, I have a question. Can you imagine some of the alternative leaders proposed by otherwise sentient Conservatives -- grown adults, some of them with day jobs -- doing the same job? Navigating through the shoals of minority government? Delivering the speech that followed Martin's? Handling Newman's questions? Belinda, anyone? Bernard Lord? Peter MacKay? UPPERDATE: I have to say, notwithstanding the above howlers, and for all my criticisms of him -- there's more tomorrow -- Martin looked very good in this interview, and in the one with Mansbridge. Actually specified things he should have done as Finance minister to prevent all this, rather than the vague "I should have been more vigilant" of the speech. Not a full mea culpa, but still... That's the thing about this guy -- there are two Martins. The lofty idealist, and the snarling partisan. The genial policy wonk, and the tantrum-throwing autocrat who administers verbal "beatings" to his subordinates. The straight arrow, and the ruthless demagogue. As with everything else, he raises your expectations, and then he dashes them. Over and over again. UPPESTDATE: Just while I'm annoying everyone -- that was a terrific program. The interviews were good -- Mansbridge's was better -- and the journalists' panel was, of all things, enlightening.