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No: HPFGUIDX 130218

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Steve" <bboyminn at y...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Schlobin at a... wrote:

> Here is the part I don't get, what was the insult. If I read your
> article correctly, the person in question has even compared himself to
> Harry Potter. So, I don't understand the media's outrage or see why it
> required an apology.

Well, the minister actually compaired our 'dear' prime minister with a
combination of Harry Potter and prim and proper middle class social
values. The actual idiom is too difficult to translate, is not nice,
and sums up as a Petunia Dursley personality with the looks of Harry
Potter. 

And no, that is not a compliment. He made it even worse by criticizing
the EC referendum campaign, said our ministers butched it badly, by
having a totally negative campaing, frightening voters in what would
happen if they voted No. 

I laughed my head off when I read it, the man is absolutely right, as
well as in typecasting Balkenende as in the EC referendum campaign
(for those who have nog guessed, I really, really do not like our
prime minister). Most people I spoke about it, found it hilarious as
well. But yes, it was insulting, and good diplomats don't do that.

Gerry