I don't know where you lost more credibility, when you called people stupid for their political leanings, or when you stated that Keating should still be PM.krc wrote:I'm just surprised that some of the young, ostensibly intelligent guys who come to this forum (sorry, Egan) are so empathetic with right-wing politics - especially of the Howard ilk. I trust that the same people are not among the number blaming Rudd for interest rate increases based on economic and inflationary figures derived from the last several months of the Rat's government. Even Malcolm Turnbull (7.30 report, Thursday, as I recall) acknowledges the relative irrelevance of governments in the interest rates issue. It's far too early for anyone to be making any judgements on the performance of the Rudd government. Been in for five minutes, something like that?
And as for the Rat's back-stabbing sojourn in addressing a HJNicholls-type cabel in the U.S., well one can only pity - at best - the miserable little weasel. Here's the same bloke that supported the Vietnam War, took us into an another unwinnable conflict in Iraq, has for a lifetime been committed to screwing over the worker and who clearly suffers from a "small man/small dick" syndrome that would have made him an even greater danger to decent humanity should he have been born in a less than democratic society.
He has always - and forever will be - a sh*t. A bean counter with a contempt for the less advantaged. A festering boil on the arsehole of humanity. Please do not compare him - or any of his embittered doozy cronies - to Paul Keating, who should still be Prime Minister of good old Oz despite his shortcomings. Under a Keating regime, we would be living in a far better, far more just and internationally far more respected community. But that's hypothetical.
We live in a democracy. A fine thing that we can vent our spleen from time to time.
kc
Kids these days eh?