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Abbott's Dogs of War.
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Paul 1405,
You must be turning your 'Watermelon' Greens blind eye to your Matilda site, where there has been a series of most unflattering articles about Carr. They do turn on one another. No surprise there that you haven't said anything about Carr and Obeid,
<No-one wants to seem too close to a corrupt colleague, but even for a profession that routinely sews its fabrics with the thread of hypocrisy, current efforts by Labor luminaries to dissociate themselves with the now-scandalous Eddie Obeid are pretty impressive. Many of the people claiming to have been bitter opponents of Obeid's rise through the party are the very same ones that promoted him.
Carr is one of them. As journalist Alex Mitchell pointed out yesterday, Carr was instrumental in Obeid's appointment to Carr's first ministry in 1999. Carr convened the factional meeting that put Obeid's cabinet spot to a vote. And then, according to Mitchell, Carr voted for Obeid himself.
Like much of what Carr told Wilkinson, the idea that the former premier was swept unwillingly along by the irresistible force of Obeid's factional strength doesn't pass the smell test. Carr was a part of the same broad faction as Obeid. What he is really apologising for is under-estimating Obeid's organising abilities.>
https://newmatilda.com/2013/03/12/why-bob-carr-should-thank-eddie-obeid