Friday, February 08, 2008
Obama, yes we can. But should we?
For Obama, it was a message of hope. But it doesn't offer hope. It offers rhetoric, in the place of pain. Obama's plan offers poverty in place of dreams. But who cares, if rich people have a little less, then poor people will feel .. better?
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Black Eyed Peas' will.i.am's music video inspired by Barack Obama's message of hope.
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An incompetent ALP Premier, Iemma, makes accusations about his Liberal counterpart. Apparently, Morris is upset that Mr O'Farrel hasn't been more explicit in telling him what to do. It must be hard, being in the ALP and leading a state. Morris is compromised by his inept colleagues, and is likely too corrupt to behave sensibly. One wonders what would happen to him were he to oppose the power sale?
'Barry's just too lazy for the job'
ReplyDeleteFawning news.com.au reporting the premier's words
PREMIER Morris Iemma has launched a personal attack on Barry O'Farrell, labelling him lazy and accusing him of being asleep in his first 12 months as opposition leader.
The Premier launched the unexpected tirade as he responded to questions about an overseas trip to China and India, during which $88,000 of taxpayers' money was spent on lunches to promote NSW to local media.
“What the visit was about was taking more than 100 of the state's business leaders and all of our universities to our two biggest trading partners,” Mr Iemma told reporters in Gosford today.
“That's part of my job of being premier, the opposition on the other hand ... Mr O'Farrell thinks the global economy begins and ends in Macquarie Street.
“It's because he's too lazy to do his job, too lazy to craft an alternative policy framework and too lazy to get out and promote NSW as a great place to live and work and invest.”
Mr Iemma was then asked a question about whether his government would look at easing water restrictions by allowing residents to use a trigger nozzle on their hose to wash their cars, as suggested by Mr O'Farrell yesterday.
The Premier said in December last year it had been decided that this would be allowed when dam levels reached 70 per cent.
“Barry was asleep in December, as he has been for the last year that he has been opposition leader,” Mr Iemma said.
“He was asleep when law enforcement legislation went through the parliament, saying ‘we didn't understand the legislation because it went through at midnight', he was asleep.”