I have always admired Helen Clark in one context - as a formidable opponent. Today she showed the first signs of complete and utter stark raving instability. The “right wing conspiracy”, "the Exclusive Brethren are stalking us", "the mainstream media are to blame", "people are talking about me in golf clubs, business circles, other circles". She called for a truce at some level, yet in doing so managed to further accuse her opponents of acting against her. Indeed the Prime Minister is starting to "see dead people."There is, and there's a lot more at Kate's, not all of which I agree with - Clark's personal life is still no business of ours. However As DPF says this morning:
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I have some sympathy for Clark with regards the latest very personal attacks. But it is nothing that some men and a great majority of women in business have not been subject to since time in memoriam. In fact a great deal of the scrutiny and envy that business people face is caused in direct correlation to the envy against them purposely created by Clark and her kind. There is some kind of deeply kharmatic logic about this whole recent episode.
Clark again tries to portray herself as the victim, and claim personal attacks are no part of Labour strategy. Her problem is that not only do her Ministers and MPs undertake them constantly, but one of her most senior colleagues explicitly said we will dish up dirt unless you lay off on the pledge card. It wasn't implicit, it was explicit.That's right. Personal attacks are no part of Labour strategy. They will always deal with the issues honestly. And the fairies at the bottom of my garden have been particularly noisy this morning.
LINKS: Labour's Diplomatic Positioning Squad - Asian Invasion (Cactus Kate)
No organised bile - Kiwiblog (David Farrar)
RELATED: Politics-NZ, Politics-Labour
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It comes down to this: If Clark sincerely finds Investigate that loathesome (and what rational human being doesn't?), why has she been doing a downright spooky Ian Wishart impersonation over the last twenty four hours? I know people who watch Close Up deserve everything they get, but Clark's performance last night was flat out bizarre - and despite hints that Susan Wood does have a brain and a spine, Clark was just allowed to rave on in a way Ian Wishart would never have gotten away with.
Yes Craig
Clark is indeed tryng now to "OutWishart", Ian Wishart. It's all spooky from a woman usually so "together".
Are you still subjected to that ghastly Susan Wood over in NZ? Oh dear.
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