Thursday, July 22, 2004
It's the lies that hurt...
There is not much that hasn't already been said about Clark's dash to the rugby. But I couldn't let this go;
Miss Clark said she did not know how fast her ministerial car had travelled on the drive to Christchurch. She had been engrossed in conversation in the back seat with Agriculture Minister Jim Sutton, but had not felt unsafe at any point of the journey.Now that's just taking the piss I'm afraid. She had been 'engrossed' - by Jim Sutton!?!? I would have believed it if is she had said she was in the back seat knocking up an original piece of Art, but to be getting hot and sticky over the dulcet tones of Jim Sutton? For the love of god - Jim may be boring, but he is no Peter Davis...
In her most extensive comments to date on the dash, she said people needed to understand "it wasn't Helen Clark, private citizen, rushing to a rugby match. It was Helen Clark as prime minister with a set of public engagements for the day."
I like the humility offered up in the second paragraph, certainly "the most humble of Prime Ministers" - in all of our opinions I'm sure.
