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Thursday, October 16, 2008
LIVE STREAMING: Third Presidential Debate: Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY, 15 Oct 2008 (UPDATED)
Watch the third Presidential debate, to be held at Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY, on Wednesday 15 October 2008 at 9pm (ET) onC-SPAN. (2.00 pm 16 October NZ Time)
It is live on C-SPAN and can be seen here at Political Animal in full after the live screening.
Barack Obama appears to be well ahead of John McCain and the latter will have to give the
performance of his life to peg back Obama's lead.
The Predisidential debates are second only to those happening in New Zealand (to Kiwis anyway)
and the result of the US election will have almost as much influence on as as the outcome of the
New Zealand Election.
The 3rd Presidential debate is happening in the hotbed of the Democratic Party in America, New York,
so dont expect a sypathetic audience for McCain.
It should be a cracker.
Watch the full video in parts here.
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Sucking Lemons
A lovely little slice of apple pie and down home humour from Emmerson from the Herald commenting on Clark's unhinged performance in Tuesdays Prime Ministerial debate.
I am heartened by Keys new found set of cahoneys, I thought he had lost them, and his performance that Tuesday night leaves me with new found confidence in him for his leadership qualities.
He is more than a match for his corrosive, cancerous competition.
It would have been nice to see some hard questions put to the head prefect as well.
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Sore loser Clark lacks class
When you lose anything you simply suck it up and take it like a man or half a man in Helen's case.
Helen Clark's big loss in Tuesdays debate with John Key has her bitterly attacking her worthy opponent with a torrent of vitriol, mindless name calling and school-yard baiting:
"The fact he didn't burst out crying on the set probably counted for him," she said during a Radio Live question and answer session this morning.
Today she said she was not accusing him of yelling at his family.
"What I meant was he was having a tantrum he was completely out of control trying to shout me down..."
Another reason he couldn't out shout her was that he didn't have a "voice advantage".
When backed into the losing corner Clark is juvenile, insipid and clearly lacks the class to be a "good loser", the mark of a seasoned politician and a decent, honest, civil person.
She brings all these qualities to her leadership and New Zealanders deserve much better.
Like the good socialist that she is she blamed everyone else but herself.
The format, Johns voice, his inexperience, the questions and the "lack of moderation" were all to blame for her poor showing and Keys dominance.
Not her poor record in government or lack of social skills.
Pathetic.
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Revisiting Telecom New Zealand
I have been a much vocal basher of Telecom New Zealand [TEL] for a long time.
It has been poorly managed for more than a decade; management didn't invest in the company, they despised their customers, often purchased the wrong technologies and have been reactive rather than proactive to competition, especially to their main mobile competitor Vodafone.
While all this has happened, the share price of the company has slid from a high of nearly 10 bucks NZ to $2.42 at close of the NZ stockmarket today.
The 2009 net profit could be as low as NZ$485 million, after a $713 million profit for the 2008 year.
The company is faced with big upgrade costs to modernise their aging fixed line network, their mobile capability and the roll out of a decent broadband offer.
All this negative news, in conjunction with current global market volatility, is clearly going to put further pressure on the share price and we are likely to see a market price closer to 2 bucks before we see the share price go above $3.
I don't say this because of my Telecom bias, I simply mention it because there are currently fundamental reasons why the stock price should slide.
All is not lost though!
If one has the testicular fortitude to buy the stock as it gets closer to 2 dollars, one could well be rewarded when the capital investment starts to pay off.
Telecom isn't about to go out of business-people will always need to communicate- it will still pay a reasonably healthy dividend and a culture movement towards helping their customers will eventually hit home.
It is well worth a punt.
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