Comments on: Obama and Key

By: Patrick Starr

Patrick Starr — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 21:23:51 +0000

What was it Hilary Clinton compared Helen Clark to again? – I seem to recall it was a cockroach?

By: JohnMacc

JohnMacc — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 11:21:41 +0000

How pathetic of the MSM to bother picking up this story at all – clearly no substance to it – they just picked up some govt/Labour press releases aimed to distract our hopeless journos with something to shift the real issues off the headlines. Headline should be “PM and Cullen show themselves desperate for any opportunity to change the subject.”

By: NZD.JPY

NZD.JPY — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 09:07:30 +0000

yeah i agree kimble. to watch clark call key a “wooden speaker at the best of times” and then say obama is one of the greatest orators in our times or what ever she said makes her look like a sour old trout who is terribly grateful for the opportunity she thinks this diversion has given her. keep talking helen. keep mocking. keep bringing that smarmy git cullen out with his tired old sarcasm.

By: Kimble

Kimble — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 07:41:51 +0000

See how gleeful the PM was to call this statement “ridiculous”?

Pathetic really.

By: philu

philu — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 05:46:32 +0000

the only thing key and obama have in common..

..is that they both have a pulse..

and..can we now call key..barack hussein key..?

..(he’d blush..and take that as a compliment..eh..?..)

phil(whoar.co.nz)

By: Don the Kiwi

Don the Kiwi — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 05:25:24 +0000

And I hear that smarmy arsehole Cullen has already come out with his predictable misrepresentation of what was said.
The sooner he goes the better – at least Helen is more bloke than him.

By: philu

philu — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 05:03:06 +0000

“..# baxter (486) Add karma Subtract karma +1 Says:
September 1st, 2008 at 3:48 pm

OBAMA is a brilliant orator but flounders as soon as he is questioned on practical policy. I hope KEY is the reverse..”

well..we know key isn’t a ‘brilliant orator’..

..so i guess you are halfway there..

..eh..?

..baxter..?

(and..on a more serious note..

..keys’ experience in ‘practical policy’..is..?..)

..phil(whoar.co.nz)

By: llew

llew — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 04:53:12 +0000

So true – Obama’s not institutionalised in Wellington either.

By: philu

philu — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 04:20:20 +0000

“..He could have at least used Sarah Palin as an example…A much more politically useful analogy..”

i agree..reddy..

key is definitely a ‘palin’..

..and he is definitely not an ‘obama’..

we agree..!

..but quite possibly..

..for very different reasons..

..phil(whoar.co.nz)

By: Nigel Kearney

Nigel Kearney — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 03:57:00 +0000

It’s not immodest of Key to compare himself to Obama. They both utterly lack substance, will say anything they think people want to hear, and are trying to spin their lack of political experience as some kind of asset.

What would be immodest would be John Key’s speechwriters comparing themselves to Barack Obama’s speechwriters.

By: baxter

baxter — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 03:48:36 +0000

OBAMA is a brilliant orator but flounders as soon as he is questioned on practical policy. I hope KEY is the reverse.

By: jams

jams — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 03:36:55 +0000

in true Ali G style.

“Is it because I is black?”

By: davidp

davidp — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 03:27:35 +0000

Obama is a lawyer with a running mate who is a lawyer. Both the running mate’s sons are lawyers. Obama is married to a lawyer. The woman he beat for the nomination was a lawyer married to a lawyer. Their main opponent was a lawyer who is married to a lawyer but who has recently had a fling with an astrologer or something.

Key is an investment banker.

So there is at least one difference.

By: Kimble

Kimble — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 03:19:28 +0000

Bradford is as institutionalised as they come.

By: emmess

emmess — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 02:37:58 +0000

Yeah John Key didn’t begin his career as a commuinity activist
Maybe it is Sue Bradford who should be comparing herself to Obama

By: PhilBest

PhilBest — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 02:32:50 +0000

Good point by Redbaiter, Obama is more of a semi-professional political animal from the start, almost as bad as our own Dear Leader. Whereas John Key has crossed over into politics from a successful career in commerce – shock, horror.

By: dime

dime — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 02:16:53 +0000

Keys not a muslim?

By: pushmepullu

pushmepullu — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 02:13:47 +0000

Obama charismatic? More rubbish pushed by the left-loving mainstream media.

John Key could run rhetorical rings around Barack Obama ten days out of ten.

By: Redbaiter

Redbaiter — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 02:07:28 +0000

Yeah, except that Barack has had no kind of experience in anything. I wish John Key wasn’t so prone to drinking the mainstream media kool aid on such issues. He could have at least used Sarah Palin as an example. A much more politically useful analogy.