20/20 you don't need to be a Rhodes Scholar to be PM. All you need is to be well groomed in SPIN and BS and Rudd is a professional in that department.
20/20 you don't need to be a Rhodes Scholar to be PM. All you need is to be well groomed in SPIN and BS and Rudd is a professional in that department.Meanwhile, the man Tuckey is so fond of crticising has many honourable points ...
For instance, Malcolm won a a Rhodes Scholarship in his own right (studied at Oxford) etc - he also personally finances a scholarship at his old school Sydney Grammar.
And I can't see Wilson either
a) winning a Rhodes scholarship or
b) sponsoring someone to go to any bloody school , let alone Sydney Grammar
But the thing that amuses me in that respect (given that Malcolm has to symbolically pour scorn on means testing etc) is that his scholarship is means tested
still, ... can't be a bad thing noco ..20/20 you don't need to be Rhodes Scholar to be PM.
Noco, Malcolm Turnbull is appealing to the blue blood Liberals like me and you. To the general population he comes across as a spoon in the mouth dullard. The camera does not do him any favours and he has little political skill. GREAT businessman and DEEP THINKER but sh!thouse with the swinging voters and the average man in the street. What he says no one wants to hear at the moment and the press is mocking of him at best. Mr Rudd's PIE FACE is everywhere and even the cartoonists draw him as Tin Tin. They purvey Turnbull to be a square jawed undertaker. He cannot survive and the polls evidence his terrible misunderstanding of what the people of Banana Republic Land want.
And the labor party is really KRudd (the rest don't really count) - when he makes a mistake and I think he eventually will, it will mean a hammering not only for him, but the whole party.
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Buckeroo, John Winston Howard = Elected to parliament in 1974. Howard was the Treasurer from 1977 - 1983 under Malcolm Fraser. He was then leader of opposition 1985 til 1989. He got beaten up by Hawke/Keating and retreated to the back bench until 1995 when he became leader of the opposition again and won the election in 1996 In total 22 years BEFORE being made P.M.
Alexander Downer said:"The moment when I wanted to [leave] was just about the first day I started in the job. There was many a time from the first day onwards when I thought to myself, 'How the hell can I get out of this?"
Buckeroo, John Winston Howard = Elected to parliament in 1974. Howard was the Treasurer from 1977 - 1983 under Malcolm Fraser. He was then leader of opposition 1985 til 1989. He got beaten up by Hawke/Keating and retreated to the back bench until 1995 when he became leader of the opposition again and won the election in 1996 In total 22 years BEFORE being made P.M.
Comparing this to Malcolm Turnbull who entered politics in 2004 and became LOTO in 2008 really does not give him enough firepower in the political stakes IMO.
I'm surprised she did not run out of the house screaming her lungs out with blood extruding from her ears WayneL
Turnbull has always seemed like he'd be a smug ****hole in real life, and a secondhand story of an encounter with him just confirms it. I don't want to see Turnbull as PM any more than I want to see Rudd retain the position. I could imagine having a drink with Bush, but not with Rudd, Turnbull or Obama. Maybe that's half of America voted for him each time - he comes across as less unlikeable.
He can be as smug as he likes brudda. THIS MAN CAN ACTUALLY RUN A BUSINESS and the sooner we wake up that Australia is a very large business the better. Meglomaniac Rudd steering the good ship "Credit Card" has really given me the irrits. Same friggin mentality of every bloody Labor Party previous. SPEND SPEND SPEND like there is no tomorrow. ZERO fiscal responsibiltiy. Promise the earth and deliver SFA. Yet again.
I believe Turnbull would run the country far more effectively, but I'd really prefer there be a good option that is also likeable. Might be too much to ask. It gets old watching the news, seeing the PM and thinking "what a wanker".
Which is why we should start the alternative party called LABERAL. Some of Labors ideas on keeping the Unions under control with a dash of Liberal free enterprise might be good? Work in harmony ... OMFG !!!!!!
I'm impressed, I'd have to do a bit of research to come up with a quick & accurate chronicle history of Howard - have you been reading his memoirs lately?
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MMmmm, sounds a bit like a dog - plus when you shorten it is still sound like labor (LAB)
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Well, if we were to follow your logic, every person who received a decent education should be able to run the country and should have acquired just as much wealth as Malcolm Turnbull.That education opens up many doors. He also met and worked for the right people, doors opening doors etc. He may have worked hard, but to suggest he started with nothing is just silly. He had a very healthy advantage over most.
Yep I think you're absolutely right here, trainspotter.Noco, Malcolm Turnbull is appealing to the blue blood Liberals like me and you. To the general population he comes across as a spoon in the mouth dullard. The camera does not do him any favours and he has little political skill. GREAT businessman and DEEP THINKER but sh!thouse with the swinging voters and the average man in the street. What he says no one wants to hear at the moment and the press is mocking of him at best. Mr Rudd's PIE FACE is everywhere and even the cartoonists draw him as Tin Tin. They purvey Turnbull to be a square jawed undertaker. He cannot survive and the polls evidence his terrible misunderstanding of what the people of Banana Republic Land want.
Well that's me stuffed then. I am fresh out of ideas now. (mutter mutter mutter)
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