Comments on: Spain’s Zapatero unveils his cabinet: a majority of women and a 31 year old minister for gender equality! http://labourinlabour.wordpress.com/2008/04/13/zapatero-unveils-his-cabinet-a-majority-of-women-and-a-31-year-old-minister-for-gender-equality/ Re-inventing the Malta Labour Party (and Maltese politics): an unauthorised tazebao. Fri, 16 Jan 2009 03:33:46 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Tazebao Caretaker http://labourinlabour.wordpress.com/2008/04/13/zapatero-unveils-his-cabinet-a-majority-of-women-and-a-31-year-old-minister-for-gender-equality/#comment-359 Tazebao Caretaker Tue, 29 Apr 2008 08:19:21 +0000 http://labourinlabour.wordpress.com/?p=23#comment-359 <strong>WE HAVE BEEN RECEIVING INCREASING QUANTITY OF SPAM. SPAM-SUSPECT MAIL IS AUTOMATICALLY DIVERTED TO A SPAM FOLDER PENDING VERIFICATION. WE FILTER MATERIAL IN THIS FOLDER NOT LESS THAN ONCE EVERY 24 HOURS TO RELEASE NON-SPAM ITEMS CAUGHT IN THE NET. WE APOLOGISE TO THE SEVERAL CONTRIBUTORS WHOSE COMMENTS WERE THUS DELAYED. THE CARETAKER</strong> WE HAVE BEEN RECEIVING INCREASING QUANTITY OF SPAM. SPAM-SUSPECT MAIL IS AUTOMATICALLY DIVERTED TO A SPAM FOLDER PENDING VERIFICATION. WE FILTER MATERIAL IN THIS FOLDER NOT LESS THAN ONCE EVERY 24 HOURS TO RELEASE NON-SPAM ITEMS CAUGHT IN THE NET. WE APOLOGISE TO THE SEVERAL CONTRIBUTORS WHOSE COMMENTS WERE THUS DELAYED.

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]]> By: Karin Dimech http://labourinlabour.wordpress.com/2008/04/13/zapatero-unveils-his-cabinet-a-majority-of-women-and-a-31-year-old-minister-for-gender-equality/#comment-352 Karin Dimech Tue, 29 Apr 2008 03:16:15 +0000 http://labourinlabour.wordpress.com/?p=23#comment-352 Fabrizio! I have posted the comment below in the mainstream section "Bow in the clouds". Visit it when you have time, to check out response to it, if any. "I came across Fabrizio Ellul's lonely comment of April 24, 2008 in the section on Zapatero of this bubbly and unpredictable blog. His is the only comment to that section. Not, probably, because visitors to this site are not interested in Zappy's great - and so far succesful - sociopolitical experiment in Spain, but simply because the administrators of this blog are doing their best to corral commenting visitors into a few mainstream locations to get the maximum of cross dialogue and focus. Anyways, Fabrizio says: "I think what Zapatero is doing for Spain is great. He is radically opening up the system. I hope Labour can truly reflect this liberal socialist attitude; because quite frankly we do not want another Gonzi with his lovely smile and hollow rhetoric." May I suggest that rather than sarcastically discard Gonzi's "lovely smile", we try to understand why such smiles (think of Berlusconi's huge grin) do often succeed in winning over large swathes of 'the people' even when the owners of the mouths that produce them are largely discredited by the thinking section of the electorate? Should we not make a bigger effort, intellectual but ultimately political, to analyse those conditions that turn Gonzi's (and Berlusconi's) "hollow rhetoric" into apparently profound wisdom in the ears of the majority (no matter how slim)? Fabrizio, get yourself out of that lonely corner and join the crowd in this comment stream! You have important things to say. Say them where we can hear and discuss them!" Karin Dimech Fabrizio! I have posted the comment below in the mainstream section “Bow in the clouds”. Visit it when you have time, to check out response to it, if any.

“I came across Fabrizio Ellul’s lonely comment of April 24, 2008 in the section on Zapatero of this bubbly and unpredictable blog. His is the only comment to that section. Not, probably, because visitors to this site are not interested in Zappy’s great – and so far succesful – sociopolitical experiment in Spain, but simply because the administrators of this blog are doing their best to corral commenting visitors into a few mainstream locations to get the maximum of cross dialogue and focus.

Anyways, Fabrizio says: “I think what Zapatero is doing for Spain is great. He is radically opening up the system. I hope Labour can truly reflect this liberal socialist attitude; because quite frankly we do not want another Gonzi with his lovely smile and hollow rhetoric.”

May I suggest that rather than sarcastically discard Gonzi’s “lovely smile”, we try to understand why such smiles (think of Berlusconi’s huge grin) do often succeed in winning over large swathes of ‘the people’ even when the owners of the mouths that produce them are largely discredited by the thinking section of the electorate? Should we not make a bigger effort, intellectual but ultimately political, to analyse those conditions that turn Gonzi’s (and Berlusconi’s) “hollow rhetoric” into apparently profound wisdom in the ears of the majority (no matter how slim)?

Fabrizio, get yourself out of that lonely corner and join the crowd in this comment stream! You have important things to say. Say them where we can hear and discuss them!”

Karin Dimech

]]> By: fabrizioellul http://labourinlabour.wordpress.com/2008/04/13/zapatero-unveils-his-cabinet-a-majority-of-women-and-a-31-year-old-minister-for-gender-equality/#comment-291 fabrizioellul Thu, 24 Apr 2008 08:24:51 +0000 http://labourinlabour.wordpress.com/?p=23#comment-291 I think what Zapatero is doing for Spain is great. He is radically opening up the system. I hope Labour can truly reflect this liberal socialist attitude; because quite frankly we do not want another Gonzi with his lovely smile and hollow rhetoric. I think what Zapatero is doing for Spain is great. He is radically opening up the system. I hope Labour can truly reflect this liberal socialist attitude; because quite frankly we do not want another Gonzi with his lovely smile and hollow rhetoric.

]]> By: Tazebao Caretaker http://labourinlabour.wordpress.com/2008/04/13/zapatero-unveils-his-cabinet-a-majority-of-women-and-a-31-year-old-minister-for-gender-equality/#comment-175 Tazebao Caretaker Sun, 13 Apr 2008 04:09:02 +0000 http://labourinlabour.wordpress.com/?p=23#comment-175 <strong>DEAR READERS, ALTHOUGH YOU ARE PERFECTLY FREE AND WELCOME TO PASTE YOUR COMMENTS ON ANY SECTION OF OUR VIRTUAL TAZEBAO, MAY WE SUGGEST THAT YOU DO SO IN THE SPACE PROVIDED UNDER THE LATEST POST "A bow in the cloud: unity, diversity and the Movement". WE ARE ASKING THIS OF YOU BECAUSE WE WOULD LIKE TO CHANNEL THE NEW COMMENTS IN ONE SECTION FOR EASY READING AND CROSS-REFERENCE. YOU ARE NOT, OF COURSE, LIMITED TO THE THEME OF THE POST BELOW WHICH YOU LEAVE YOUR COMMENT, AS LONG AS IT IS IN SOME WAY RELEVANT TO THE ISSUE OF THE CHOICE OF A NEW LEADER. THANK YOU THE CARETAKER</strong> DEAR READERS, ALTHOUGH YOU ARE PERFECTLY FREE AND WELCOME TO PASTE YOUR COMMENTS ON ANY SECTION OF OUR VIRTUAL TAZEBAO, MAY WE SUGGEST THAT YOU DO SO IN THE SPACE PROVIDED UNDER THE LATEST POST “A bow in the cloud: unity, diversity and the Movement”. WE ARE ASKING THIS OF YOU BECAUSE WE WOULD LIKE TO CHANNEL THE NEW COMMENTS IN ONE SECTION FOR EASY READING AND CROSS-REFERENCE. YOU ARE NOT, OF COURSE, LIMITED TO THE THEME OF THE POST BELOW WHICH YOU LEAVE YOUR COMMENT, AS LONG AS IT IS IN SOME WAY RELEVANT TO THE ISSUE OF THE CHOICE OF A NEW LEADER.

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