Posts by Hebe
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Hard News: The Big 2012 US Election PAS Thread, in reply to John Armstrong,
Weta Workshops, hopefully.
Nah.Weta's would be more, well, human.
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Hard News: The Big 2012 US Election PAS Thread, in reply to John Armstrong,
On a related note, I was interested to see Karl Rove being poleaxed last night after his questioning Fox news’ early call of Ohio for Obama.
I didn’t see that but I thought some of the early calls were way too early in such a tight race and when voting hadn’t closed in many states. I was switching between CNN, Fox and BBC with HuffPost on the net to try to make sense of it. (Not much Fox because it makes me want to throw things at the TV. Where do they get those Foxbots?)
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Hard News: The Big 2012 US Election PAS Thread, in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,
But who would spit the dummy in public anyway, you’d look like a right tosser including a poor loser.
Obama was one cool cat. He gave everyone something to relate to. He gave everyone something they could believe in.Obama is damn good; he can Clinton with the best. As for who would spit the dummy in public: it's happened before. I think the Republican hierarchy may well consider Romney's speech a dummy-spit in their direction.
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Hard News: The Big 2012 US Election PAS Thread, in reply to Jeremy Eade,
Romney is worthy of investigation.
In what way?
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Hard News: The Big 2012 US Election PAS Thread, in reply to Jeremy Eade,
Very Roman.
Obama's kick-arse talents will be interesting to watch this time around.
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Capture: Two Tales of a City, in reply to Gudrun Gisela,
I read that the video was moved to ourtube:
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Hard News: The Big 2012 US Election PAS Thread, in reply to Tom Semmens,
Great speech, great delivery, great setting in the way Obama was at the centre of his audience. He put down some interesting markers for his agenda for the next term. His promise to find a role for Romney was intriguing: a call for unity after that campaign seems the way to marginalise the far right.
I have loathed Mitt Romney all the way through, but his concession speech made me wonder if I had the measure of the man. It was extraordinarily heartfelt, and gracious with no trace of malice. I was impressed by him, which is confusing given the campaign awfulnesses. Was the campaign was more about the rabid Republican strategists' view of electability rather than Romney as a person and what he believes? Was the delay in conceding because he spat the dummy and refused to say anything other than words he wanted to say, not from the backers' spin machine? I hope so because that would be a good sign for the future. (On the other hand, I can be politically rather naive)
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Ohinetahi... some more: it's an especially wonderful gift given that we have lost so many beautiful old buildings, so to have this one opened up to public access is a treasure.
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Capture: Spring is Like a Perhaps Hand, in reply to Islander,
Miles Warren has gifted Ohinetahi to the nation via a trust – hooray!
What an amazing gift.
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Capture: Spring is Like a Perhaps Hand, in reply to Jos,
Beautiful pictures. That taro is otherwordly.