“The opportunism beggars belief.”
Simon Busuttil, MEP commenting on the MEP election campaign on the Times of Malta. How’s that for an eye-opener?
della serie J’accuse does a onenetmaltarightnowstar style “lift”
P.S. That’s not what he meant
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Basically, what Busuttil is complaining about is that the PL has finally learned to play the PN’s game and do it better.
Tough.
Tough on who exactly Ettore? On the Nationalists? Or on the voter?
What I don’t get is how people can feel vindicated simply because the race to mediocrity has now reduced the playing field to NO CHOICE.
Spiffin’
Jacques, that’s because you labour under the illusion that politics in Malta is about good governance rather than tribal warfare.
Well, it’s not quite tribal warfare is it Justin? The contestants play by the rules of the democratic game (as opposed to the law of the jungle) and the whole affair has been coated with a shiny veneer of civilized respectability…
@DF It’s not called veneer. It’s called VASELINE.
Tough on the Nationalists, Jacques. As for the voter, if he is going to get conned anyway, he might s well be conned by the party with the better intentions.
@ DF: I was talking about the voters’ perspective
@jacques
it IS tough on the voter … which is why so many are simply staying at home
It’s not a question of feeling “vindicated”, Jacques – it’s simply that one finally learns to stop going to a gunfight armed only with a knife.
What Bono means is that an army which used to crush its enemies with slow, armoured tanks and unsophisticated ammunition was outdone by a technologically more savvy machine. The first army is now in the process of upgrading its tactics and weaponry. They have one missing item in their arsenal: an equivalent to The Daphne bomber. It takes years to construct.
LOL. Years to construct? I beg to differ. In their own terms they’ve always had their own (see the Manuel Cuschieri Mark I for example),i it’s just that they weren’t half the entertainment circus the Daphne Bomber has proved to be.
In any case this year seems to have brought the Self-Destruct button pretty glaringly to the fore hasn’t it? So why hassle with the bomber if it seems on the route to self-destruction any moment now.
And stuff netiquette mind you.
While some stress over which army will win this battle, others are concerned about the destruction of the territory and the maiming of its citizens. To each his own, I suppose.
I’m not sure it is all that desirable, DF. Causes too much collateral damage. It’s like the use of phosporus bombs – effective, yes, but too visible and in the end makes you a pariah.
In any case, the PL may not need to worry too much about the D-Bomber, because – going on past form – it is likely to be busy elsewhere.
http://www.maltatoday.com.mt/2009/06/14/raphael.html
Of late The Bomber has started to show signs of fatigue, true, but don’t underestimate its capacity to adapt to changing scenarios – it was equipped with more advanced technology than the Manwiel Cuschieri Mark I. Besides, it has also been involved in some genuinely humanitarian campaigns.
Justin – How many of those citizens have shown their disapproval of the armies in combat? Maybe they enjoy the proceedings…
Hmm. methinks that DF has a little Bomber-fetish. Humanitarian? Next you’ll be saying ethical – seeing how ethics, nethics and all seem to be a very relative question as far as the bomber is concerned.
Keep up the hits guys and gals… before long we could EVEN reach one-tenth of the hits on other blogs… surprisingly WITHOUT any “publicity” at all…
No fetish. Just praise where praise is due. Cuschieri Mark I was SOLELY geared to track and destroy. It could do nothing else.
Jacques, don’t you have any siblings who could flesh-out the statistics?
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its all about political bigotry – to balance the books the PL needs a labour party political bigot to match DCG’s bigotry and put her in her place once and for all – and to hell with netiquette – that should balance things out somewhat.