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If a protestor at the carbon tax rally last week had held up a sign saying Prime Minister Julia Gillard was a “dead carcass, swinging in the breeze”, what would the reaction have been?
Vitriol is part of political life. But there is no one who can spew it out with the calculated cruelty and contempt of former PM Paul Keating. He could craft the sort of insults that other politicians would be proud to be associated with.
Mr Keating has now made headlines for his attack on John Robertson, NSW MP and potential party leader. He said Robertson wore the political deaths of a couple of dozen Labor members around his neck, and was a “lead weight” in Gillard’s political saddlebags. It was not a bad effort. It wasn’t his best.
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Hint: it’s something on the stage and we’re not talking about the President’s pants.
The man who led one of the greatest campaigns in the history of western politics has resorted to this? Oh well, at least at the rally he was jamming on some other themes, such as: “Buck up, Democrats”. You can read about it here, here and here.
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Youdy beaudy says:
Well i think that President Obama inherited a lot of what he has on his plate from the Idiot Bush. We know that Bush was just a War Mongerer. I think that America went the wrong way in thinking and applying its policies as if it were a modern version… Read more »
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Not Amused says:
Amusing Bobster, that you think it was the “free market” that got the USA into this mess [and the West at large], whilst ignoring the fact that U.S. currency has been monopolised under government control since 1913, (quibble though you may over the quasi-private, quasi-public nature of the Fed; it’s… Read more »
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