Question Time Live: 14/09/09

pc says:

06:02pm | 14/09/09

And God prepared a great fish to swallow up Malcolm….

Just recently Malcolm Turnbull declared his faith in the god of Israel. Inside and outside parliament, more and more Malcolm reminds me of Melville’s, Captain Ahab, I know many of you will protest, he more resembles a pirate from Penzance. But add to it the Ruddbotts increasing similarity to the White Whale - who knew inside his metallic frame beat the heart of a political animal - “as old and scarred as Jerusalem’s hills.” Malcolm is a no holds barred politician. “From Hell’s heart I stabbeth thee. For hates sake. I spit my last breath at thee. Thou damned Ruddbott.” And what was Malcolm’s sin shipmates? Malcolm disobeyed the necessity of politics. The necessity to believe in something. Malcolm thinks to flout further at god and that a party made by people, who believe in something, will carry him into a government. He tries to flee from the duty of opposition. Miserable Man. Oh! Most contemptible and worthy of all scorn, prowling among the causes and policies like a vile burgler hastening to cross the polls with a program not of his own – because there are none of his own. Eternal delight will be theirs “O God – here I die. I have striven to be thine, more than to this worlds or mine own. Yet this is nothing; I leave eternity to thee; for what is a person’s life that they should live out the lifetime of their God.” This isn’t good enough for Malcolm though. He is too ambitious for the political limits of his own party –challenge of climate change for example - And he is too obviously interested in himself and not the Australian community for everybody else. Malcolm will only be remembered as one of the harpoons – one of many – that DIDN’T kill the WHITE WHALE.