If only the mainstream media would keep John Key as accountable for his deceptions as they do David Cunliffe’s supposed misleadings.
If only Judith Collins could spend as much energy on Teina Pora’s case as she spends on belittling Metiria Turei’s jacket.
If only John Key could put the effort into lifting 270 000 children out of poverty that he is putting into his diversionary flag debate.
If only…
If only David Cunliffe could make a stand against deep sea drilling.
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This article brought to mind Rudyard Kipling’s poem – not a very gender neutral conclusion – yet the sentiment is a good one for leftwing politicians and supporters at present:
If
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too:
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or, being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or being hated don’t give way to hating,
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise;
If you can dream—and not make dreams your master;
If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim,
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same:.
If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build’em up with worn-out tools;
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings,
And never breathe a word about your loss:
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: “Hold on!”
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much:
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!
Rudyard Kipling
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/if/
If only all the people who paid $30 for a Tui t-shirt in the hope that they would take a one handed catch at the cricket and win $100,000 realised they were simply being used to sell beer.
If only Labour wins the election.
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