grodscorp@grods.comAnother post, another name dropped
 | Posted by The Editor on Wednesday 11 June 2008, 5:02 pm Categories: Blogosphere, Politics Tags: AlexanderDowner, MadeleineAlbright, namedropping |
Dolly Downer’s still at the namedropping game. The scene this time is 1997’s APEC summit.
Madeleine Albright didn’t share my view… my only support was the Singaporean Foreign Minister.
GrodsThink Ep.31 (16/9/08)
Wednesday 11 June 2008, 5:12 pm #Damian
Downer’s a classic. Some good place-name-dropping, too. He’s been everywhere, man, and he knows everyone, man. And I love the image of him singing at ASEAN dinners!
Have to say, though, if you read through to the end he actually makes one of the most important points I have heard so far about Rudd’s proposed Asian community. Downer says:
“Countries which have cast off the humiliation of colonialism over the last sixty years won’t be ceding their sovereignty to a supra-national bureaucracy in Bangkok or wherever. As they say, I’ll tell you that for nothing.”
I don’t think I have ever agreed with Downer before, but I reckon that’s on the money.
Wednesday 11 June 2008, 5:16 pm #brerrabbit
my only support was the Singaporean Foreign Minister…and a rather fetching pair of royal blue suspenders, a personal gift from ‘Phil the Greek’….
Wednesday 11 June 2008, 5:52 pm #THR
Reading this post, I was thinking the same thing when having lunch at with Ken Livingstone at Dick Cheney’s favourite pizza joint, and swapping our funniest Kofi stories.
Wednesday 11 June 2008, 6:11 pm #Krypto
do you suppose any of these people drop Xander’s name at every opportunity?
I doubt it somehow.
Wednesday 11 June 2008, 7:41 pm #Chuck A. Spear
O/T. OMG!!! Nicola Roxon is wearing a hangman’s noose on the 7.30 report!!!
Wednesday 11 June 2008, 8:16 pm #Jack Dorf
do you suppose any of these people drop Xander’s name at every opportunity?
Only in the punch line of their jokes.
Wednesday 11 June 2008, 9:07 pm #pludian
I loved this line:
“Well, they must have slept through the Sydney APEC Summit (I certainly didn’t.)”
Yeah, because the Sydney APEC Conference did so much to fight climate change!