Posts by simon g
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Peter Dunne will be looking forward to the TV debates. Delete "families" and "common sense". Insert "integrity" and "principles". Hook that worm.
We'd better start checking out the United Future list. "Kelly who?"
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It's a model of logic compared with this view from the opposition leader:
We supported the right to invade, but not the invasion, but if we did support the invasion, that doesn't mean we would have sent troops, and if we had sent troops, that doesn't mean they would have been hurt, and anyway the war in Iraq is over.
And anyway Iraq is not a "core issue" (it's just, you know, the place where the next generation's world is being screwed).
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Do kiwis actually work hard?
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Campaign Cliche Count: the first in an occasional series
"The reality is ..."
Winston Peters 43 John Key 37
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If anyone's in the vicinity, could you be a dear and pop down and throttle him for me?
Sorry, I've already got my hands full with the commentators.
How about a new drinking game? You can only have a slug when one of the Interpreters For Idiots tells you something you hadn't already worked out for yourself, and actually provides new information or an original insight.
Think of the benefits for your body and budget.
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And for anyone who doesn't get the print version of the New Zealand Herald, I think the only sane and decent response to Rod Emmerson's effort today is to quote John Waters: "One must remember that there is such a thing as good bad taste and bad bad taste."
It's online now (I assume Craig means the 9/11 "joke"?).
Somehow the cartoonist went all the way through from blank sheet to publication without that little voice popping in to say: "Y'know, this may not be such a great idea". That's a worry.
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Mr Glenn denied meeting anyone from the Maori Party and said an allegation he'd offered it $250,000 was an "absolute fabrication".
OK, that's clear. But Tariana Turia's allegations 2 years ago were very serious. This was an attempt to persuade the Maori Party to go with Labour. So either she was wrong, or there's some other expat with a yacht offering money to political parties. Or Glenn is wrong.
A diligent media would be asking about this complete contradiction between Glenn and the Maori Party, and asking Turia to explain.
In fact, this story is potentially bigger than the Peters one, because it's about money being used (unsuccessfully) to influence a party's position before the election, and before any negotiations. If true that is of course, corruption.
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Do you still say "score!" and gleefully release it yourself, or do you return it to its perturbed owner?
You return it, in person, with kind words that say "See how honourable I am" and a dark smile that says "I know all, and now you know that I know, and you do not know what I will do with what I know, sweat on that." Double score.
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Where is the evidence from Owen Glenn that
a) Mike Williams brokered the deal between Peters and Glenn?
b) Clark is somehow implicated in this?
Glenn had every incentive to dish the worst of dirt on Labour today. But he has said only that Peters approached him for a donation, and Glenn then checked with Williams, who did not object (why would he?). All this, of course, long after the confidence and supply agreement was in place.
The line that this was all some nefarious Labour/Clark plot has not been supported by today's evidence - in fact, the opposite.
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Craig, where did I suggest that? Please don't put words in my mouth.