Comments on: Hands off Obama. He's the Labour Party's.

By: Amanda Mallia

Amanda Mallia — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 12:18:58 +0000

Re Frans Sammut being “cultural adviser” to Alfred Sant – What culture, may I ask?

[Daphne – It should have been the other way round. Sant should have been Sammut’s cultural adviser. Luckily, the job is still open.]

By: Bob The Builder

Bob The Builder — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 03:35:53 +0000

Daph,

Check this out …
http://www.maltastar.com/pages/msrv/msfullart.asp?an=25181

New hairstyle …gruesome!!

By: Sybil

Sybil — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 00:43:42 +0000

Reasons related to health. He used to have some sort of website once about his “disability” of sorts . That’s all.

[Daphne – If it’s not a mental disability then it makes no difference. It’s wrong to laugh at people’s physical disabilities, but the fact that they have a physical disability does not exempt them from the usual norms of criticism when they are in public life. Check out David Blunkett. Jean Pierre Sammut is a public person.

http://www.freewebs.com/liberalalliance/youthsection.htm

http://www.korea-dpr.com/official_delegates.htm ]

By: Sybil

Sybil — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 00:32:07 +0000

It would be appropriate and kinder, to conveniently leave out of the equation the one who runs the fan club.

[Daphne – Why, Sybil?]

By: H.P. Baxxter

H.P. Baxxter — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 00:25:35 +0000

[Daphne – Frans was cultural adviser to Prime Minister Sant, so we had better credit him with at least another digit.]

Before or after the decimal point?

By: David Buttigieg

David Buttigieg — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 00:09:56 +0000

“Don’t forget the other one, who runs the North Korean fan club here in Malta”

Oh yes, My, if you add their IQs together you would probably still get a single digit number!

[Daphne – Frans was cultural adviser to Prime Minister Sant, so we had better credit him with at least another digit.]

By: David Buttigieg

David Buttigieg — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 23:59:41 +0000

Well, we know who Frans Sammut’s son inherited his brains from – the one whose level of intelligence was such that he thought he could board a plane with a gun in his hand luggage.

[Daphne – Don’t forget the other one, who runs the North Korean fan club here in Malta – yes, I mean it.]

By: Darren Azzopardi

Darren Azzopardi — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 23:45:44 +0000

TO ALL the people who are using Barack Obama as a figurehead for their party – just cut the crap will you? In Malta, politics is as transformational and exciting as watching a sloth trying to catch a snail. WHY are we even mentioning his name at all in relation to Maltese politics? Is it because he’s the cool new kid on the block, and by mentioning him, some of his magic dust is going to be transferred to either of the two parties, as if they can be transformed just like that?

If Barack Obama stands for change, Maltese politics is diametrically opposed to change. How many political dynasties do we have in this country? Do we really need any more Mifsud Bonnicis, any more Fenech Adamis, any more DeMarcos, any more Mintoffs, any more Gonzis in our parliament? We don’t have a figli di papa culture, we just have the whole damn family tree following on in the family tradition.

By: Amanda Mallia

Amanda Mallia — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 22:16:12 +0000

This must be why Muscat feels he’s on a par with Obama:

“Barack Obama’s victory is welcome news for all young women and men who believe and hope in change to a better way of doing politics.” (Muscat, extracted from http://www.maltastar.com/pages/msrv/msfullart.asp?an=25183 )

By: Amanda Mallia

Amanda Mallia — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 22:04:11 +0000

If this comment is anything to go by, then diehard Labourites are a pathetic lot:

“M. Camilleri (3 hours, 33 minutes ago)
Ah ara stenbaħ.
He got jealous of JM writing to Obama earlier, and so rushed to write to him as well….not knowing that his apologists, who defend him so gallantly, have attacked Joseph Muscat for doing the same precise thing…..
poor old Lawrence”

(Extracted from http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20081105/local/prime-minister-congratulates-obama )

… Gonzi jealous of Muscat, eh? Ignorance really is bliss. At least, Gonzi knows his place; Muscat and “lil din”, on the other hand, have a long way to go before they can ever get it right.