“Clarke: Cooper should have made remarks in private” – The Nassau Guardian

Excerpt from this article; “Former Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) candidate Dr. Charles Clarke said he agrees with much of Exuma and Ragged Island Member of Parliament (MP) Chester Cooper’s observations of why the PLP lost the last general election, but says Cooper may have been attempting to score ‘brownie points’ by doing so in such a public forum.”

My most obvious question would be, score ‘brownie points’ for what and with whom?  Is there a power struggle going here?

Indeed, the Progressive Liberal Party is a party of secrets and maybe Mr. Cooper should have made his observations ‘in house’ where they could have been left to die a lonely death but wasn’t he addressing the National Progressive Institute; I am not getting the impression that this ‘private club’ is not as ‘private’ as I once thought, as I posed the question to persons “Exactly what is the National Progressive Institute? And by the very same token, the point being made that Mr. Cooper is attempting to score ‘brownie points’, what exactly is Dr. Clarke’s motivation by openly admonishing minister Chester Cooper for this observations?

I must say that some of these people within the Progressive Liberal Party confuse me.

Then there is the analogy drawn by Dr. Clarke to explain why he does not agree with Chester Cooper’s call for the PLP to ‘apologize’ to the Bahamian people; “It is like a vehicle,’ Clarke told the Guardian yesterday.

‘When you have a car and it has an accident or knocks someone down, the car doesn’t apologize to the person.

It is certainly not the passenger or the car, but it is the driver who comes out to apologize, or should apologize.

‘There are people in the party who should apologize to the party and the council of the party for taking the party and its vision away from the core values of the party, and it is now causing the Bahamian people to now be skeptical about the party.”

Wow, who is this man because his thought process is really scary and I really mean, who is he? Because before the election I had never heard of him before.

When he says “There are people in the party who should apologize for taking the party and its vision away from its core values of the party “, does he not realize that that one; this is basically what Chester Cooper is saying and two; doesn’t he feel ‘these people’, of which he is a part, owe an apology to the Bahamian people?

Does he really believe that they only owe an apology only to the party and council of the party? 

This is sad and borders on the delusional and seems to be what member of parliament Chester Cooper is saying when he says; “…the party lost the 2012 general election because it ‘protected he interest of the party over the interest of the nation, and urged party members to make a ‘sincere and humble apology and repentance’ to its supporters and the country.”

While, there are many in the Progressive Liberal Party that feel that they have NOTHING to ‘repent’ for, I am thinking that Dr. Charles Clarke may think he has nothing to apologize for because ‘he just reach’.

The Progressive Liberal Party continues to fails for one reason, it is their nature.

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