Comments on: A week in the life of Australia’s greatest living political hypocrite http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/22/crikey-says-91/ now with extra source Sat, 11 Feb 2012 13:13:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Stevo the Working Twistie http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/22/crikey-says-91/#comment-38397 Stevo the Working Twistie Tue, 22 Sep 2009 09:26:55 +0000 http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/22/crikey-says-91/#comment-38397 Redundancy: Cynical Politician. Oxymoron: Conviction Politician. Redundancy: Cynical Politician.
Oxymoron: Conviction Politician.

]]> By: paddy http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/22/crikey-says-91/#comment-38395 paddy Tue, 22 Sep 2009 09:21:00 +0000 http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/22/crikey-says-91/#comment-38395 I wonder if they'll give him a Tarrago for his official car? He'd certainly weep if he had to pay for petrol at European prices. What a tosser!!! I wonder if they’ll give him a Tarrago for his official car?
He’d certainly weep if he had to pay for petrol at European prices.

What a tosser!!!

]]> By: Damon Schultz http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/22/crikey-says-91/#comment-38366 Damon Schultz Tue, 22 Sep 2009 06:35:26 +0000 http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/22/crikey-says-91/#comment-38366 Yet weren't we were always told that Nelson was a "conviction politician". I always had trouble with this concept of Nelson as the "conviction politician". After all, he maintained his role as Defence Minister in a government waging an <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legitimacy_of_the_2003_invasion_of_Iraq" rel="nofollow">illegal war</a> responsible for the deaths of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lancet_surveys_of_Iraq_War_casualties" rel="nofollow">hundreds of thousands of Iraqis</a>, while at the same time being a medical doctor and former head of the AMA - doesn't the Hippocratic Oath bind its adherents to "do no harm"? So yes, on balance it would appeat Nelson was much more the political cynic than the conviction politician. Yet weren’t we were always told that Nelson was a “conviction politician”.

I always had trouble with this concept of Nelson as the “conviction politician”. After all, he maintained his role as Defence Minister in a government waging an illegal war responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Iraqis, while at the same time being a medical doctor and former head of the AMA - doesn’t the Hippocratic Oath bind its adherents to “do no harm”?

So yes, on balance it would appeat Nelson was much more the political cynic than the conviction politician.

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