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the guy reeks of rattery, imo. thoroughly uninspiring, creepy crew all around

You are extrapolating from your opinions of Tony Blair.  I've worked with some of DM's team on the community organising stuff and they are all good people.  DM can't be accused of not inspiring people given the reaction I saw in that huge room in London.

I note that a failure to inspire people was not the problem with Bliar, either.

*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.

by DoDo on Sun Sep 5th, 2010 at 05:43:18 AM EST
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i think people are inspired, but by their own idealism, not the dear leader of the moment, no matter how dearly the media want to create cults of personality, these people are too smooth from incessant telegenenic tweaking, they don't mean anything to anyone except a hook to hang hope on (and from). intelligent, yes, but so are rats.

sorry to be so dyspeptic, but brit politics is what does it. (when italian politics doesn't, lol)

what's tragic is the breadth of native, regenerating idealism, forced into such narrow conduits. how to fix that unfortunately i have no idea, so i'll shut up.

ultimately energy issues are going to trump (and purify) politics, and it can't happen soon enough for my poor spleen...

then we'll see how far inauthenticity will be tolerated, and truth might return to politics.

~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~

by melo (melometa4(at)gmail.com) on Sun Sep 5th, 2010 at 09:33:21 AM EST
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