Posts by larryq
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This review and other comment on the book suggest that the book is a good study in how real politics works. This is probably true - it's nasty enough on the surface, but even more murky behind the scenes, as anyone who has been involved will tell you. What this suggestions does indicate, however, is that the sting has already been taken out of it by Brash's departure. I really wish that someone like Colin James had written it so that it would be a credible behind the scenes study of a political campaign.
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It might be cliched, but I quite like the fact that we are likely to have a talented & successful person from a modest background with a shot at power. I've had a gutsful of the Helen Clark's of this world trying to kidd us that they know anything about being working class.
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Just about everyone agrees that the book needs to be out there ASAP so that people can make their own judgements. I just wish we had someone of the stature of Bob Woodward to do such a job. The fact the Nicky Hagar has done it, a very nice man but with a very strong ideological position to push, almost nullifies any good points he makes. Where are our emeritus professional journalists, who should be doing such stories? People who are not concerned that such a publication would ruin their career because they are old....What has happened to our old brave journalists?
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Re DD at the commemoration. Was Neil Finn busy or something? Why wasn't there some real real Kiwiana on display - marching girls, pipe bands, All Blacks, Sir Howard Morrison, that bush band from the west coast, Dame Kiri or Malvina, John Hore, Sir Edmund...how did we end up with boring old DD trying to be profound? Thank god he didn't sing that Yaugting song. Sorry, All Blacks were on display.