(Aust) Latham 'robbed' Clinton policies

[anakie]

Once again the Howard government plays the man rather than the policy. They are really clutching at straws doing everything they can to discredit Latham.
Anyway, it's got to be better 'robbing' Clinton's education policies than mirroring the Bush regime's chest thumping over Iraq.

"JOHN Howard last night accused Mark Latham of stealing former US president Bill Clinton's ideas and language, calling on the Labor leader to apologise to the Australian people.

The Prime Minister's call came after it was revealed the Opposition Leader's speech this week on the Australian character mirrored Mr Clinton's 1997 State of the Union address.

In the most direct attack yet by Mr Howard on Mr Latham's political honesty, the Prime Minister said: "Mark Latham owes the Australian people a proper explanation for appearing to have stolen not only the ideas but also the words of another politician".

A commitment by the Opposition Leader to set targets for education and learning, delivered to a high-level business audience in Sydney on Tuesday, was eerily similar to language used by the former president when he addressed the US Congress."

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,9351991%255E2702,00.html