A friend emails me responding to the "Yasser - Dead" conundrum
i think the rumours that he is brain dead, circulated a few days ago, are
probably true. They will outfit him with remote-controlled puppet skeleton,
ala Boris Yeltsin, who was dead 3 years before the end of his presidency.
He will then carry out the rest of his rule, hanging limply and made to dance
like and idiot.
That sounds so cool!
In other dead man news... (well, he's dead in terms of political relevance)
It's time for Gough Whitlam to say sorry. And the former Labor prime minister should no longer be allowed to "strut the national stage as the wronged legendary hero of Australian politics" but apologise to all those he failed.
So says Sir David Smith, the man who stood on the steps of Old Parliament House and read the proclamation to dissolve Parliament after the dismissal of the Whitlam Government 29 years ago this week.
"It's time he said sorry to his party for being such a failure as leader. It's time he said sorry to the Australian people for being such a failure as prime minister and for giving us the most incompetent government we have ever had, and it's time that he told the truth about the events of 1975," Sir David said yesterday at a lecture in Canberra.
Posted by Quentin George at November 8, 2004 04:07 PM