Re: M. le President est mort. Vive la ...
Camille Scaysbrook (verona_beach@hotpop.com)
Sun, 07 Nov 1999 11:32:28 +1100
Actually, I prefer to think of John Dryden's quote:
`Nor is the people's judgement always true,
The most may err as grossly as the few.'
Yes, Australia voted No to becoming a republic - and in my state it was
very close, 48% for and 52% against. I realised from the start that my
country did after all vote in our current prime minister, a man of such
dazzling anti-charisma that he is almost like a small, slow moving black
hole. I saw him at the theatre last week, and though there were bodyguards,
cameras and lights I literally almost walked into him. I was amazed to
notice that he is actually more underwhelming in real life than he is on
TV.
Enough of Australian politics ... normal transmissions resumed (:
Camille
verona_beach@hotpop.com
Scottie wrote:
> Our hearts go out at this sad time to Camille. I suggest
> we allow her a 48 hour silence while she composes
> her explanation of the way in which all those Australians -
> longing desperately for a President - were bamboozled
> into rejecting that fine tribune of the people, Mr Turnbull.
>
> I wonder did they, at the last moment, remember Hilaire Belloc's
> cautionary tale of Jim. We could ALL benefit from the moral:
>
> 'And always keep a hold of Nurse
> For fear of finding something worse.'
>
> Scottie B.