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Imagine this fellow as Australia’s Prime Minister. Kinda prissy, ain’t he?
Sounds like he has been reading Webdiary.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2006 12 02 at 10:48 AM • permalinkSecond link is coming up as a Tripod advert jpeg, Tim. (For me, anyway).
At the genius hand of EvilPundit, however, the Womble is anything but prissy!
#1 - Yeah, he loves those bucketloads, doesn’t he?
He seems like the rich fella who speaks in a Old English accent but drops the word ‘mate’ into sentences uncomfortably in order to seem like ‘one of the people’.
Also loved the emphasis on team….so much of a team that only one of them speaks.
Posted by Villeurbanne on 2006 12 02 at 11:23 AM • permalinkOne more observation from an outsider:
He’s also fond of the term “reaching a f**k in the road”.
Posted by ElectronPower on 2006 12 02 at 12:33 PM • permalinkOn a more important topic, what about the effort by Collingwood, no, not the football team!
Deputy leader ALP positions are traditionally decided on who has the worst teeth.
Posted by boxofmatches on 2006 12 02 at 06:26 PM • permalinkA lot of people will not forget that when Howard and Downer stood firm with the US and Israel in the UN over Israel’s right to defend itself against terrorists, especially after the International Court of Justice officially ruled that the only rights the Jews have are to shut and die, Rudd would have wimped like a Frenchman.
Rudd’s inclination [was] to abstain from the UN General Assembly’s vote on Israel’s security barrier last July ...
Several points:
Can’t quite see Labor’s heartland warming to a guy who looks like one of the Tracy family.
If you say you’ve got a “bucketload of energy” (three times), then it’s probably a good strategy to more animated than a puppet.
The term “new vision” implies something new. These two bring a freshness to the ALP like Mike Moore brings slim and hygenic to the cause of gun control.
I am personally not sure whether or not it is wise for the ALP to back Rudd or Beazley.
However, one thing I do know is that it is always a good idea to listen carefully to the sheilvoyants - and then do the opposite.
Sheilvoyant Quiggin is saying:
“I’m backing Rudd and Gillard to win in Monday’s leadership ballot both in the sense that I think they will win and in the sense that I think they should win…I don’t see any reason Labor should suffer much damage from a change, assuming the losers retire gracefully.”
Latte leftie letter writers to Fairfax newspapers have also backed every losing political cause you can think of over the last decade.
This is (to paraphrase) what one had to say yesterday: “all my friends are Howard-haters and we all believe that Rudd should lead the ALP.”
Posted by Margos Maid on 2006 12 02 at 10:54 PM • permalink#25
Damn…I had nearly forgotten about Gareth Evans and Cheryl Kernot, before you reminded me.
Posted by Margos Maid on 2006 12 02 at 10:55 PM • permalinkAll you guys comparing Kevin Rudd to a pixie or Harry Potter or one of the Tracy family are missing the point . . . .
He’s really Doctor Zee.
Posted by Young and Free on 2006 12 03 at 12:57 AM • permalinkoh happy happy joy joy - rudd the dud on our televisions pursing his lips in that censorious way & speaking down to us all. and julia gillard, like a fishwife on mogadon, droning on & on & on & on & on. they’ll do our heads in to the point where we all need mentalcare gold
a forward thinking potter has already made a figurine of la gillard
The 5 words you do not want to hear from Rudd if you are in the ALP.
HE HAS MY FULL SUPPORT
Posted by curious george on 2006 12 03 at 01:35 AM • permalink#33, no, they’re Fairfax polls and they’re usually out by 5%. The last newspoll was ALP 51 - Coalition 49.
Posted by Art Vandelay on 2006 12 03 at 05:10 AM • permalinkIt appears that the Australian Labour Party suffers from the same conceit as the Canadian Liberal party.
The next election will surely be the most important for the Labour Party, but for the country? There seems to be the same confusion of party with country.
And is he hinting at constituional changes? Another Canadian sickness.
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2006 12 03 at 09:06 AM • permalinkfirst kraft came for vegemite, recently private equity firms have targeted coles and now it appears those funsters at the lancet have taken over ac nielsen- when will this foreign buyout of oz end?
on a more serious note if krudd takes over from ol’ easybeat can we expect a more serious investigation into the heine affair?- given his position in the goss government at the time rudd must have been up to his neck in it.
one of my lecturers at uni (lee duffield) was press secretary to goss and when asked about the heine thing said they did nothing wrong they were just naive- apparently a cabinet full of lawyers didnt realise there was anything wrong with the wholesale shredding of documents sub judice
Posted by eeniemeenie on 2006 12 03 at 09:44 AM • permalinkKevin Rudd kind of looks like David McCallum.
And David McCallum was never a leading man. I’m just saying…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 12 03 at 05:49 PM • permalink
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Some observations from an outsider:
Kevin Rudd kind of looks like David McCallum.
He likes to repeat himself a lot.
He’s fond of the term “bucketload”.