Sending Off A True Kiwi Battler: (Though I Can't Join With Those Offering Their Heartfelt Tributes), 'in spirit' I'm one with Those Today 'Bidding Adieu' to the Best Prime Minister Aotearoa-New Zealand Almost Never Had - and then But for the Very Briefest of Periods - the 'Right Honourable' MIke Moore...

Evidently with a Christlike heart, in possessing that rarest of 'Christian' qualities, the ability to forgive those who had upset/offended/transgressed against him. Regretfully such an attribute, which made him most like His Maker/Redeemer, was simultaneously a great, if not Moore's greatest, political weakness... (according to funeral reportage on RNZ National this evening; from words of his longtime acolyte, his successor MP (in Waimakiriri, Christchurch), Clayton Cosgrove, or 'M(ike) M(oore) #2' as he was apparently known)...