Comments on: Teacher’s pet

By: Kim

Kim — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 08:25:04 +0000

Hello Edward,
Would you please contact me if you are related to Ann Clemmer of Fort Wayne, Indiana.

By: Daphne Caruana Galizia

Daphne Caruana Galizia — Tue, 27 May 2008 12:10:45 +0000

@M – maybe it’s commonsense with the benefit of hindsight, but in the panic of a campaign lots of people are unable to see things clearly. Also, the Nationalist Party uses the services of people trained in a variety of fields to build a campaign. It doesn’t rely on commonsense. The Labour Party relied on what it taught was commonsense and what ‘it was feeling’ and ended up in a mess. It was the equivalent of going to a witchdoctor or faith-healer to cure it of a fatal illness.

By: M@

M@ — Mon, 26 May 2008 20:38:14 +0000

back @ DCG:

Fair enough, I didn’t know that but even so, in my last comment I didn’t really intend to demean your opinion, professional or not, in any way.

It is (and somewhat was) clear to me that you had all right to defend your analysis in your response to Zizzu like that but my arguement still stands.

Would you’re opinion of the last elections and current events now be different if you were never involved in your current line of work?
Isn’t what you write about stuff like the MLP common sense to you and others?

By: Wistin Schembri

Wistin Schembri — Mon, 26 May 2008 19:23:53 +0000

Daphne, you mention certain people here.

It is interesting to have alook at
http://www.josephmuscat.com/grfx/backing_pics.jpg

You’ll find that some of them already endorsed Joseph Muscat (now Doctor Joseph Muscat) way back in 2004.

One might notice that he has also the backing of one of the wise men and women who drafted the 99 pager.

By: Joseph

Joseph — Mon, 26 May 2008 17:04:52 +0000

And so the man who was once advised to play the part of Kapo’ felt the need to come over to help and give a push. Or did JM deem it fit to “impress” the 900 or so delegates by having MS sit by his side and immortalise this on photos ( This remindes me of is-Salvatur calling on to the Pope before the 1981 election ) This must have been a brainwave of JM himself or someone about to be kicked out of his place as SuperOne TV did not give us a shot of Martinu. So we could also say that either JM does not have friends at superone or that his contenders have a footing in there !!
Hope the delgates are wiser….

Another thought. This act really makes me shiver. So JM needs a “parrinu” to make it to the top post – just as prospective university students back in the 80s due to AS heading the selection board. If JM is making use of this system now, I have little doubt that should he and his party be returned to govern us in 2013, that is precisely how we would be treated. Thanks, but NO THANKS JOE.

Finally, both as Maltese and as well as a voter, I would like to ask and understand why all this paranoia – by a limited few – to have JM and no one else elected as leader. Is there something really wrong which has been kept under wraps till now ? The replies which Michael Falzon gave on Saturday spoke volumes. For the sake of the party and its supporters, any secrets need to come out….urgently.

By: Daphne Caruana Galizia

Daphne Caruana Galizia — Mon, 26 May 2008 17:00:28 +0000

@M – communications consultancy is my line of work. The column is just a sideline.

By: M@

M@ — Mon, 26 May 2008 15:29:16 +0000

@DCG :-

Professional opinion??
I thought it was more like common(ish) sense. There’s nothing professional about telling it like it is.

By: europarl

europarl — Mon, 26 May 2008 15:07:12 +0000

Funny but when we had the European Onion website (a sort of European version of the maltafly) we always depicted Herr Schulz as an angry looking rotweiller (no ‘t’ in Schulz, btw, unlike comandante Schultz of Hogan Heroes fame).

So it’s uncle Rotweiller helping his ilk in poodle format.

What a bunch of lackies the PES! DoctorJosephMuscat found his perfect niche.

By: Daphne Caruana Galizia

Daphne Caruana Galizia — Mon, 26 May 2008 14:42:17 +0000

@Zizzu – rest assured that it was a clinical approach. The mistake that you and others make is to imagine that the shininess of buttons, as you put it, is a matter of insignificance. When it comes to election campaigns, mine is a professional opinion, and not the subjective opinion of yet another newspaper columnist.

By: Zizzu

Zizzu — Mon, 26 May 2008 14:10:34 +0000

@Daphne – my primary objection to your efforts is that they tend to be a “tad” subjective. Your views on the MLP, although not necessarily inaccurate, are clouded by an inordinate animosity towards the MLP.
I agree that you were scrutinising every turn the battle took, but your observations gave me the impression that you were more concerned with the shininess of the combatants’ buttons than with the strategy employed.
I would have enjoyed a more “clinical” approach …