Monday 4 September 2006

A slogan with substance - a PM without honesty

"Eighty-one percent of New Zealanders support National Party sloganeering." That's the only interpretation to put on this morning's spin from Helen Clark on Newstalk ZB that the phrase "Pay It Back" is not so much a moral imperative, it's "nothing more than a National Party Slogan." To spin it like that is an admission that she would rather continue her dishonesty than concede it.

I'm sure any politician would be happy to receive eighty-one percent support for anything, slogan or otherwise. When it's a slogan that has substance -- as this one does -- then all the better for that.

UPDATE: Whale Oil has a transcript of part of the PM's conversation with PH, and a link to the audio so you can hear the spinster doing what she now does best: lying to cover her arse.

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