Posts by Russell Brown
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There are plenty of politicians who deserve loathing and hatred.
And many, many more who don't. Representative democracy requires that some people stand up and are prepared to be representatives.
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Obama's speech notes.
Apparently McCain's "prebuttal" was a debacle.
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The Bag has evidence of Obama clearing the final bar.
I thought, that's an amazing photograph. Then I read down and people were reading all kinds of 'Strange Fruit' stuff into it.
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I hope Russell that we would never suggest hate as a suitable emotion for for any politician.
There'd be the odd one on the world stage, but no, I've never been one to apply such feelings to people in elected office.
I was left with the impression of a man who was the product of a different era. Better someone like him than some of our more odious politicians of both right and left. Yes, he was a deeply committed right winger, that many of us would disagree with,but not bad just committed.
Of course, and committed quite rigidly to the ideas he believes are right, not equivocating like the rest of us. I'm quite fascinated by how short the leap is for some from a Marxist worldview to the far end of the ideological scale.
Some dreadful people are former Marxists -- Great Global Warming Swindle producer Martin Durkin, revisionist historian Keith Windschuttle. I don't think Brash is a dreadful person. Like I said, he might have been an asset to Parliament as the Act Party leader, although perhaps that party would still have been too crammed with weirdos to function effectively as the classical liberal party I'd like to have around.
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Is this a Sunday Star Times story, or a Womens Weekly dribble? Wah wah wah.
That descriptive passage is the key to the rest of the profile. If you're saying it shouldn't be there, you're wrong.
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Well, if you'd swallowed the 'inevitability' Kool-Aid I guess it is a terrible upset.
As Jed points out, last September, Clinton was polling 53% and Obama 20%. It did look inevitable ...
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Craig, yes but to be fair, having travelled on the night buses many times over the years, they were as often as not, a fairly positively spirited party and quite a London institution.
Oh hell, yes. I had some great laughs upstairs on the night buses.
But for all that, there was nothing less pleasant than a bunch of cider swilling skinheads on the tube after an away game.
It did improve a lot in the late 80s, whether it was acid house or whatever, but yeah, the best approach if a Tube train full of football supporters in their colours pulled in to the platform was generally to wait for the next one.
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"This is the greatest political upset maybe in the history of American politics."
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The flood has begun.
The supers are declaring and Obama is 10 delegates away from the magic number and counting.
I couldn't even begin to guess what the Clinton camp will do next.
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I didn’t catch New Zealand Paralympic representative Jessica Hamill winning the shot putting on Sunday, but hopefully that wasn’t the last time the NZ flag flutter will triumphantly in the artificial breeze.
How odd. That doesn't seem to have been reported at all here.
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