Have you ever been on drugs? I have, and it was the most miserable, helpless time in all my life. It’s not “just” drugs – don’t be such an idiot.

If it’s just drugs then start doing some, get a coke habit then see how miserable it is.

Reference was to “FORESIGHT not hindsight.”

Examine closely this report and the comments board:

http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20130301/elections-news/consider-the-bigger-picture-pm-tells-hurt-nationalists.459622

Conservative, just look closely at the comments and the time at which the comments were posted and the time when the report came on line.

There must have been around twenty to thirty persons in a concerted attack against Gonzi, writing under different names.

I wrote one comment an hour ago it was not offensive but still it did not appear there.

Please note that people who normally write comments are the usual people who have time on their hands. You rarely find the unusual people at eleven in the morning writing a barrage of hostile comments against Gonzi.

I hope I explained myself clearly enough.

I prefer being judged on the content of my writings. So if I chose Gahan as my pen name address me by my pen name. What’s in a name?

My answer for your question is simple: polls are an indication of how the people on this handkerchief-sized island intend to vote.

Would I really tell my voting intentions to someone on the other end of the line when she states that she’s from MISCO and wants to ask a few questions to someone between the age of 18 and 34?

My answer to her would be that my age is 30 when in fact I’m over 40 and that I voted for Louis Galea and intend to vote for Karmenu Vella this time round.

My daughter did something similar in a different ‘survey’ and people my age who are rabid Labour supporters gave false answers to different surveys.

How can anyone pick a good sample from the Maltese voting public and get a clear honest answer when we all know that our two big brothers can use that information against you?

I simply don’t trust anyone.

How would I know that my phone wasn’t handpicked from the telephone directory? This is not America.

So treat surveys as an indication and comment-boards with a pinch of salt.

Many people are busy getting on with their lives and don’t want to tell anyone about their intentions and simply don’t bother to write.

After a day’s work a family tries to follow the eight o’clock news or some TV political discussion while eating, washing the dishes, sorting the laundry or sitting (dozing off) on the sofa.

At around 10pm the youngsters start returning home. How can these be caught in a survey, when surveys are done up to around 7pm on a landline (that’s from experience) and not on mobile phones?

There is disgruntlement because we are fed up of seeing the same faces but many realise that a change would be from the frying-pan into the fire.

Dr. Muscat, not Dr. Gonzi.

“Barunijiet.” (Barons)
Alfred Sant and Joseph Muscat surely had foresight on this one. In fact, you will find them handling blocks of ice at the Bar of your local Labour Party club.

One cannot compare the two, not by any stretch of the imagination.

I cannot believe that there are people who are supposed to be very well educated, and who think that they are more intelligent than everybody else, are about to elect Joseph Muscat as Prime Minister.

They are nothing but idiots.

has, not have.