That's the thing PR. It's not an us v them thing. There are a lot of non Queenslanders doing it tough up there as well, and these people need the rallying call as well.
Bligh has been phenomenal - the woman must be exhausted, and when the emotion spills out one realises the effort she has made to reign it in. These people are used to speech writers of the calibre of Don Watson or Alan Jones, so speaking off the cuff is something they are not so rehearsed at.
I think anyone launching an attack over this issue is missing the point of her call. I also believe those that read the ambiguity in her speech as singling out Queenslanders as better or tougher probably also needed the rallying call, but felt excluded by it. After all, this is not exclusively Queensland's own problem, its far wider than that. Me and my family were only a few of the tens of thousands of non Queenslanders caught up in it too. We were stranded in a small town with rapidly dwindling supplies for 5 days, and everyone around us were absolutely fantastic. That was the catalyst for this thread.
Those who want to make those sentiments into a bitchfight, or who intend to trivialise what some raw emotioned non Queenslanders may have felt from the unintentional ambiguity of Blighs speech need a very long and very thorough look at themselves, because the value that the countries intellectual capital that is contributed by you is hardly worth the waste of oxygen.
