Makes sense to me
Thursday, July 29, 2010 at 5:15PM There is an Australian politician who as leader led his party to not quite grasp the brass ring. Reluctant to admit failure he said that his party didn’t loose, they just did not get enough votes to win.
His name was Billy Snedden and he was Leader of the Liberal Party and led that party in defeat at the 1974 election. I have always had a soft spot for this man who was so schooled in political non-speech, so sold to the sound-bite grab and the poll-driven agenda that even at the end of it all, when his political capital was all used up, he still fought the good fight and refused to make a straightforward statement. RIP Billy and may therefore ever be a bronze bust of your gathering dust in some forgotten corner that shall be forever obfuscated.
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