Comments on: Oh, but people DO have a blurred memory

By: carlos bonavia

carlos bonavia — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 22:38:16 +0000

I only know of one other person who successfully ‘ saw the light ‘ in a flash and that was Saul of Tarsus – but Ms Micallef hardly qualifies in the saintly stakes.

By: marlene

marlene — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 12:13:58 +0000

I think she should start writing her name as Marisa J Micallef.

J for Judas, of course.

By: Tal-Muzew

Tal-Muzew — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 11:31:41 +0000

In reply to marika mifsud.

Din bhal meta tnejn ‘jinhabbu’ jizzewwgu u meta jibda’ l-ghawg u jissepparaw ma tantx jibqghu ‘jinhabbu’! Il-bambin wahdu jaf bil-kliem helu li jibdew jghidu lil xulxin quddiem l-avukati…

Xi kultant naqleb fuq l-ahbarijiet taghhom, u meta jirnexxieli nistaportieh u nisma xi ahbar tahraq u f’qalbi nghid ‘Imma kif saru jafu bihom dawn l-affarijiet? Hemm xi spjun jew xi hadd li qed iwassal? Min jaf min hu dan ix-xi hadd?’ Jista’ jkun xi hadd bhal Marisa li forsi jkun irid jibda jinhabb….?

By: marika mifsud

marika mifsud — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 04:40:35 +0000

What I can’t understand is her conversion. I mean if I decide PN doesn’t deserve my vote in the next elections, I would have a huge problem. If I don’t have faith in the PN it doesn’t necessarily mean I have faith in the PL, does it ? How on earth can you be against all that someone stands for and all he stood for and all of a sudden you see the light and go all out in his favour? It’s beyond me.

By: taxpayer

taxpayer — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 15:28:30 +0000

Mrs Marisa Micallef Leyson is a political mercenary with no self-esteem – money first and foremost.

By: Tim Ripard

Tim Ripard — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 13:46:12 +0000

This is priceless. Any chance of a reply from Ms. Micallef?

By: jomar

jomar — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 12:51:16 +0000

I stand to be corrected, but if Marisa Micallef was not earning anything much when Labour offered her a job, then 40,000 euros must have seemed like winning the lottery. I don’t blame her. I would probably have done the same thing but with one difference. I would not have burned those bridges before I jumped ship. Micallef did that, and with that bridge went every shred of credibility she had.

Not long ago she was all out against Labour and Joseph Muscat (among others). Now she’s cosy with them. Seems more like a case of blurred principles.

Was she wrong then or is she wrong now?

By: P

Sun, 04 Oct 2009 09:03:01 +0000

Daphne, for once Marie Benoit is competing with you in interpreting Marisa’s defection to Labour. Just two quotes: (1) “Marisa is not worth it. My first thought was: what a pathetic creature she is”; (2) “Poor Marisa. Rather wash dishes to keep myself alive than do what she has done – sell her very soul”.

Possibly this is the first article by Benoit in several years I found worth reading from start to finish – and it’s a long one, too! It seems that Benoit still has a higher opinion of Alfred Sant than of Joseph Muscat.

[Daphne – At least Mrs Benoit is consistent, and for that she has my respect. I prefer consistent people, even if their views are diametrically opposed to mine. She hasn’t done what other Labour supporters are doing on the internet: trying to justify Mrs Micallef’s actions because they interpret criticism of her amoral behaviour as indirect criticism of their party leader. It doesn’t follow that because Mrs Micallef is amoral in her choices, or at least in this particular choice, then Joseph Muscat was wrong to offer her the job. Politically speaking, he was right to go for her scalp – though I would have advised him not to pay for it as it undermines the stated objective. But she was wrong to accept.]

By: marika mifsud

marika mifsud — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 04:49:22 +0000

Andre Chetcuti – a really good letter. And who knows how many more similar articles will be written in the future regarding the MM/JM past relationship.