"My name is Kevin, I'm from Queensland and I'm here to help,'' Mr Rudd quipped as he addressed his first Labor national conference as opposition leader.
"It's a marathon. We've barely passed half way and you know something we can expect our opponents to throw everything at us including the kitchen sink because, you know something friends, they have everything to lose, political power in itself, the thing Mr Howard cares about most of all."
"Australian people want prosperity but they want prosperity with a heart.''
"Mr Howard doesn't really believe in a single idea which didn't appear on black and white television. No one is a bigger fan of Ward Cleaver than me, but I've got news for Mr Howard, the world has changed since Leave It To Beaver."
On the PM being a climate change denier: "This is the modern equivalent of arguing that the earth is flat and that NASA faked the moon landing and that Elvis is out there somewhere still flipping burgers in Florida. That's how in touch with reality Mr Howard is on this one."
Matt Price and John Howard both jumped the starter's gun to claim Rudd failed to give any details, but who expected him to? It's not like the election is next week. And it's not like John Howard ever goes into detail on anything. This is the opening day of the Labor love-in, fer Chrissakes; it's the anointing of Sir Tintin who will lead us out of the wilderness, the Good Lloyd be praised.
BTW: Let's hope Kev didn't borrow that opening quip from the film Harry, he's here to help. Harry managed to murder off just about everyone in his zeal to be of help.
-- Olney Garkle
Wonder what Rudd's position on the World Bank is. Just read an interesting article on commondreams.org (hmmm, time to learn to hyperlink) about the relative insignificance of Wolfie's cronyism at the bank compared to what the bank does to poor people. The scale of the ruthlessness of these institutions is depressing. Just how compromised is the Labor party? Considering Howard's nastiness, I think the lesser of two evils is the prime consideration here. (Article is by Johann Hari, has his own site). Pray that there is some room for moral considerations after selling out as much as needs be to gain power.
Posted by obviously obtuse on April 27, 2007
Under the farcical parliamentary system no government ever won power. What really happens is people are so pissed-off with the arrogant bloody dills in parliament they replace them with others they see as, for the time being, less of a pack of arrogant, selfseeking bastards. Hence the system is losers get tossed out, so the vacuum is filled with other vacuum brained drongos of momentary lesser threat to peoples wellbeing.
And aren't we lucky! This year we have one of two garden-gnomes to choose from!
Posted by Ugly on May 29, 2007