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“David Hicks has left Labor with a problem,” writes Matt Price:
Yesterday Swan, Gillard and others froze like popsicles when quizzed about Hicks. “Go ask Kevin,” became the evasion du jour.
Yet when Kevin was asked, his reply was more dense than a body builders convention ...
“On the question of the detail of what Mr Hicks has pled and what response will be delivered to that in terms of the next stage of the legal process on the settlement of the facts and on the determination of any sentence and on the application of any appeal process, let alone the application of the International Prisoner Transfer Agreement which might flow from that, these are all delicate processes still to be worked through.”
It’s enough to make you nostalgic for the clarity and brevity of Kim Beazley ...
Further on Fat Dave from Miranda Devine.
“David Hicks has left Labor with a problem…”
Actually, ol’ Mohammed Dawood has always been a problem for Labor. It’s just that their eyes have been forced open by his guilty plea, and they are finally seeing the deep deep pile of warm, steaming doo-doo they’ve been wallowing in all along.
Reality sucks, eh?
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 03 29 at 12:48 PM • permalinkUmmm, maybe it’s me that’s still being dense, but exactly how do you appeal your own guilty plea?
Posted by oldirishpig on 2007 03 29 at 02:44 PM • permalinkLabor and Kevin Rudd have up to this point been indulged by the Australian media, much the same as the US media has indulged Barack Obama.
Questions are set up in advance, warning is given of potential areas for exploration and stumbles are quickly glossed over.
As the time grows nearer to the federal elections in Australia and to the 2008 Democratic Convention in the USA, I don’t see that either of them will be given such a free run.
It will all be a little more interesting.
Re #5, AFAIK, you don’t. Another poster here noted that you can have the guilty plea set aside by a judge….which means you go back to trial.
Which strikes me as being self-defeating, except for cases of actual prosecutorial misconduct. Which is hardly the situation here (although I’m sure that moonbats around the globe will disagree with that).
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 03 29 at 05:42 PM • permalinkWell the footy season is about to kick off and after some thought and deliberation I’ve put my on-line tips in. With that in mind, I rather like Matt Price’s quote from an earlier article -
“Everybody knows Kevin’s good for six goals off a half-forward flank when the side’s winning by 20 goals,” says one senior Labor frontbencher. “But the crowd wants to know how he’ll perform when it’s close and wet and windy and he’s playing in the key position.”
Taken off at quarter time, given a good rub down and put on the exercise bike for the duration, I’d imagine. The newly elected member for Adelaide, Dawood Hicks, inserted at very full forward, Garrett to continue as a follower and Julia roving the ball.
Posted by Whale Spinor on 2007 03 29 at 05:59 PM • permalinkBob Brown, recently transferred from another club, brought on to play as a loose man in the backlines
Posted by Whale Spinor on 2007 03 29 at 06:34 PM • permalinkI see Price has promoted Hicks to ‘ratbag’; can only be a matter of time before he adds ‘lovable’.
Posted by Tony.T.Teacher on 2007 03 29 at 09:38 PM • permalinkJust clarification - Miranda Devine calls some people big fish, not refering to me but others like OSBL.
Posted by The Big Fish on 2007 03 29 at 10:47 PM • permalinkWas a line ever uttered by any other politician that so deserves crucifixion by media? Not for Kev, though. The bastards are all in it together.
Posted by Do not beat around the Dubya on 2007 03 29 at 11:24 PM • permalinkas Miranda said :
He was a well-trained terrorist, an al-Qaeda “golden boy” who had watched footage of the September 11, 2001, attacks which killed 3000 innocent people, including Australians, on a friend’s TV in Pakistan, who “approved of the attacks” and went back to Afghanistan to fight the US and its allies with his terrorist mates. He was the enemy traitor when Australian troops were on the ground.
HOW DARE SHE QUESTION HIS PATRIOTISM!
Actually, it’s really easy.The word “traitor” has, like “fascist” and “communist” been devalued by overuse against people to whom it doesn’t apply.
Now is the time to rehabilitate it, and call a Traitor a Traitor. Only in cases like this, only when people aren’t just spouting opinions, but actually commiting treachery, raising funds or otherwise providing material comfort to our enemies. We’ll allow them to adhere to them without calling them traitors, we’ll just publicise their actions, and let the facts speak for themselves.
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But Rudd has already “worked through” his party’s plan to reduce Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions by 60 per cent by 2050. Got the whole 43 year timetable settled. No prob.