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Saturday, March 15, 2003

A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.
-- President Gerald Ford - (1976)

Elections Election scene is as fragile as an Easter egg: Enter Bob Carr's Evil Twin

Please look at the centre of the mirror, a computerised voice instructed him.
Please move forward a little ... Please move back a little.
But no matter how obediently the Premier followed the computer's instructions it was unable to identify him.
Finally, after a journalist asked the tall man with the deep voice if he was in fact Bob Carr's evil twin, a press secretary stepped in and wound up the event.
· His were the eyes of a tired, soiled leader with a tired, soiled vision [SMH]