Political staffer: “Hey, Rob I’m just going to the parliamentary canteen, did you want the pasta or the salad roll?”

Rob Oakeshott: “Well, look. I mean, yikes. I’m not pretending this is easy. It’s been line ball, a points decision, six to one half a dozen the other, it really could go either way, in fact it’s going right down to the wire. I mean, I like pasta. I like it a lot. Over the years I have eaten a lot of pasta, it’s, you know, it’s a carbohydrate, and you can have it with a variety of sauces.

But then I really like salad rolls. I’ve eaten a lot of salad rolls in my time too. And weighing it up on balance I have to say that I’m kind of
torn. The question I have been asking myself is what is the pasta going to provide? I want more than just sustenance, I don’t just want to eat for the sake of eating, I think what we really need at this point of time, that is, lunch time, is a whole new way of eating.

So if it’s going to be the pasta then the question has to be asked, is it just going to be the same sort of pasta that we’ve seen in the past, or a whole new pasta paradigm? And I find myself wondering if whether it’s the salad roll after all that can provide that – not just the usual ham cheese lettuce and tomato combo but something which also involves some grated carrot, alfalfa, maybe some Jarlsberg instead of the plain old Kraft single, some beetroot – a roll that’s more inclusive, that says a bit more about who we are and what we can be, a roll that…

Political staffer: Sorry, er... Rob….

Rob Oakeshott: A roll that involves everybody, a roll that breaks down the presumptions and rewrite the rules governing the…

Political staffer: Rob…

Rob Oakeshott: A roll for tomorrow! A roll that’s beautiful in all its ugliness…

Political staffer: ROB!!!

Rob Oakeshott: Sorry, yes?

Political staffer: Lunch is over. They’ve got the dinner menu on now. Do you want to have the chicken or the veal?

Rob Oakeshott: Well, look. I mean, yikes. I’m not pretending this is easy…

Never added a poll before, just experimenting.

Just what this country needs; another procrastinating pansy  ::)

I dispute that Salad Rolls have ham. Else they'd be a salad roll with ham paradigm.

Indeed.

hehe that's good; I can hear his mid-range skull-vibrating voice when I read it.

He is a bit goofy but he's a thoughtful heart-on-his-sleeve type person. Better than being a slick entitled-to-rule arsehole like some of his detractors are.

Julia is a stateswoman wrote on Sep 13^th, 2010 at 5:06pm:

hehe that's good; I can hear his mid-range skull-vibrating voice when I read it. He is a bit goofy but he's a thoughtful heart-on-his-sleeve type person. Better than being a slick entitled-to-rule arsehole like some of his detractors are.

Depends on whether or not you want a power-broker who can make up his mind and stick with it coz that aint oakeshott.

Julia is a stateswoman wrote on Sep 13^th, 2010 at 5:06pm:

He is a bit goofy but he's a thoughtful heart-on-his-sleeve type person. Better than being a slick entitled-to-rule arsehole like some of his detractors are.

better the the coalition alternatives and their supporters

Binary Ninja wrote on Sep 13^th, 2010 at 5:45pm:

Julia is a stateswoman wrote on Sep 13th, 2010 at 5:06pm: He is a bit goofy but he's a thoughtful heart-on-his-sleeve type person. Better than being a slick entitled-to-rule arsehole like some of his detractors are. better the the coalition alternatives and their supporters

Wow!! a cutting primary-school level retort!!!

Impressive... if you were 8yos.