canetoad
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Tue Mar-16-10 01:44 PM
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"It was bad enough having the real John Howard ... at least Howard was a militant, aggressive conservative driving in reverse through the rear-vision mirror." Mr Abbott was an "intellectual nobody no policy ambition".
http://www.smh.com.au/national/abbott--poor-mans-john-howard-keating-20100316-qb12.html
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Tue Mar-16-10 08:18 PM
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"Mr Keating said the Rudd government deserved to be re-elected on its reaction to the global recession alone, saving Australia from an "economic holocaust" that had massively crunched the US and Britain."
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Wed Mar-17-10 01:54 AM
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2. Have you noticed the stories around |
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over the past few days that say Kev is not charismatic or well liked? Sorry but I don't want a PM who wins popularity contests, but one who has a good head and good policies.
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Wed Mar-17-10 03:16 AM
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3. The ABC (which has a climate denier as Chairman) |
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has been furiously peddling stories saying that Labor is now looking to Julia Gillard as leader because of Kevin Rudd's low popularity rating.
He's still on 48% approval, higher than Kim Beazley ever reached, and still way ahead of Abbott as preferred leader - 55-30%. And that's the figure that counts - prior to Kevin Rudd's appointment as Labor leader, polls regularly showed the two-party preferred vote favouring Labor, but John Howard was way ahead of Beazley as preferred PM. And he kept winning elections.
Of course, with 70% of newspapers controlled by Murdoch, and all of FTA television owned by conservatives, what can we expect?
It's a pity that Aunty has joined the throng of witless nutters. When is Rudd going to replace the Howard-appointed Board?
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Sun Mar-21-10 01:43 AM
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4. "When is Rudd going to replace the Howard-appointed Board?" |
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I'd like very much to know that, too.
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