To compare John Key to Barack Obama, is a bit of a stretch. It is easy however to compare McCain to Clark.
Neither have aged particularly well, and both enjoy an overt degree of photoshop love in campaign photographs.
They both represent the dying throes of idea bereft governments due for pasture.
Both have counter intuitively pursued oppostional, [...]

The latest secret recording of Bill English and his concerns about Obama’s foreign policy was just released, and Helen has leapt at the chance to accuse the National Party of being “militaristic”.
Have we suddenly forgotten the brave SAS she sent into Afghanistan or Iraq? If elected will she have no words of support for Obama’s [...]

I’m tired of hearing about “HOPE” and “CHANGE”. If we elected a squirrel things would change. No matter who gets in we will hope they do better. I don’t you wish billboards were more like this?

Seth Godin is talking about the US election, but I couldn’t help but think of Winston Peters when I read his blog post entitled “Spin”:
“Humans are lie detectors.
We hear stories. We enjoy them. We try them on for size. We’re looking for falsehoods and we sniff them out.
We value the truth and we enjoy it. [...]

 
I’m convinced.

Can someone tell me why Shihad are getting NZ on Air video funding this month? They are currently NZ’s biggest rock band, they have 7 gold+ records. They regularly and consistently play sellout shows. They are signed to a major international record label. They get regular airplay inside and outside NZ. To put it mildly, they aren’t struggling. The band haven’t been based in New Zealand since 1999, with only singer Jon Toogood living here, the rest in Australia.