Kevin Rudd for PM

[moXJO]

How much has Kev changed ?



http://www.smh.com.au/federal-polit...thud-as-leader-gets-lippy-20130831-2sxpc.html

I have no idea what people see in Kev. Anyone that can do what he did to Gillard and the labor party need to be thrown out, not made PM. Talk about a labor fog covering their supporters eyes.

 

[Garpal Gumnut]

Kevin Rudd has changed.

He is now a kind, considerate, caring and inclusive individual, none of which he was before today at midday.

I reckon we should give him another crack at really stuffing up our country.

All the lies about Kevin are starting to annoy me.

gg

 

[sails]

Kind, considerate, caring person?

The Fairfax Media analysis comes as reports emerge of Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s behind-the-scenes fury at how events have soured for him. According to several sources, his travelling party has witnessed familiar outbursts of anger and a growing cranky demeanour from the PM, while campaign headquarters in Melbourne is at a low ebb. Staff members who have dared to voice opinions and challenge strategies have been removed, leaving a sense of distrust and insecurity among those remaining.

Frustration is also growing at how Mr Rudd and his pseudo campaign manager, Bruce Hawker, have been freewheeling on strategies and policy. “The mood is so depressed. It’s like there is no reason left to keep fighting,” one insider said.

and on the campaign described below as a shambles:

“The message of the day sent out from CHQ to seat directors never matches what Kevin stands up and says, campaigners end up wasting their day pulling together materials and stand-ups on an incorrect message. The Canberra press office is even worse off, not even CHQ filling them in, press secretaries there are left to wander the gallery with no information on what is happening that day, relying on watching Sky News to piece the day’s message together. It’s a complete shambles.”

Read more: http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/rudd_cracks/

 

[johenmo]

Kevin Rudd has changed.

He is now a kind, considerate, caring and inclusive individual, none of which he was before today at midday.

I reckon we should give him another crack at really stuffing up our country.

All the lies about Kevin are starting to annoy me.

gg

GG - I feel your pain, brother. If he does lose, he will surely be a victim of PTSD and should therefore be generously compensated, especially after all he has done for our country.

 

[noco]

Kevin Rudd has changed.

He is now a kind, considerate, caring and inclusive individual, none of which he was before today at midday.

I reckon we should give him another crack at really stuffing up our country.

All the lies about Kevin are starting to annoy me.

gg

+1 GG. I wish they would stop pickin' on our Kevvie, coz he's gonna be a compltete wreck by the time he gets to the G20 meeting in St. Pertersburg.

 

[noco]

Is Rudd going off his "ROCKER"?

He obviously does not realize how toxic he has become and he wonders why the media have turned against him.

He is in self destruct mood.


http://www.theaustralian.com.au/opi...ng-for-a-miracle/story-e6frg75f-1226708639885

 

[Calliope]

Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him well

 

[drsmith]

Once upon a time in the Brisbane seat of Griffith,

Labor could see Glasson was making inroads in Griffith, so one morning, when he turned up at his favourite campaign corner, he found two elderly Labor stalwarts had already set up shop, with balloons and corflutes bearing the single word "Kevin" in high-octane yellow, above an image of the prime minister.

The two campaigns shared the space companionably enough that morning, but the next day Glasson got out of bed half an hour earlier and beat his rivals to the corner.

The next day, the Labor stalwarts were there first, chuckling away, and on it went, until Glasson found himself standing alone in the pre-dawn darkness just to prove a point.

"I'm a country boy," he told his rivals when they arrived. "I can keep getting here earlier and earlier. Or we can work as a team."

Work as a team they did, arriving at the same time, buying each other coffees, sharing political war stories, discovering a mutual antipathy to Peter Beattie, and getting along so well that passersby commented on how nice it was to see such congeniality between foes.

But one morning, so the story goes, Kevin Rudd drove past and didn't like what he saw. Perhaps the old guys didn't fit with his youth-friendly selfie-seeking image.

Whatever his beef, a complaint was relayed to the Labor stalwarts that they looked like the two grumpy old muppets, Statler and Waldorf, who used to heckle the Muppet Show cast from a balcony.

The old guys took the insult in their stride, and the next time they showed up they stuck up a little sign: "Muppets Corner".

But the day Rudd drafted Beattie onto his team, pushing aside the loyal preselected Labor candidate in Forde, three weeks ago, was the day the muppets could take no more.

The next day they didn't show up. Muppets Corner is now the sole preserve of the "Glasson's Gladiators."

In four days, the final chapter of this story will be written for both Griffith and nationally.

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/ne...-bit-of-a-muppet/story-fni0cwl5-1226710030078

 

[Calliope]

Labor's Mad Monday...9 September.

 

[noco]

Could this possibly be another AWU scandal about to unfold.

This all took place back in 1988 when Rudd was director general under Wyane Goss and it looks like Wayne Swan knew all about as well.

Makes you think why this is all unfolding in the last week of the election campaign. Perhaps Swan and Gillard are working behind the scenes again.

REVENGE, REVENGE, REVENGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


http://kangaroocourtofaustralia.com...made-millions-from-their-contract-with-a-nun/

 

[drsmith]

Labor is "sandbagging" in a chaotic campaign to retain the seats it already holds, while the Coalition's campaign rolls on with military precision - that's the latest analysis coming from two of the ABC's correspondents travelling with the respective camps.

The audio segment by Lincoln Archer at 1:40 PM today illustrates well the depths of despair in the Labor campaign.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-09-04/election-live3a-september-4/4933222

 

[noco]

Subject: Pickering - So long Kev








it has not been nice to know you



Julia Gillard may have been a crooked union moll but Kevin Rudd is a detestable, lying lair without substance. Australia and his own Party deserve much better and you can thank Bill Shorten and his AWU’s grubby handful of votes for an election result worse than Gillard would have managed.

Those in Treasury Finance Dept and the Parliamentary Budget Office who had not already nailed their colours to Kevin’s mast, have turned on him. They have exposed him for who he is.

It is inconceivable that he could expect to verbal senior Public Servants in the process of lying about “Abbott’s black hole” and not have them complain.

His conceit was sufficient to believe they would back his blatant lies but, at this late stage, senior Public Servants’ concern is job security and Kev should have checked the betting before assuming Treasury would still support him: Rudd $11, Abbott $1.03.

Kev may well go down as among the worst Prime Ministers Australia has produced but Treasury has decided it will not go down with him and now he stands naked and alone, a humourless shell of a man.

Whether you like Abbott or not, he has soared above the fray, consistently refusing to play in Kev’s cesspit.

For Kev to suggest Abbott cannot be trusted to handle foreign diplomacy is an astonishing statement when his own record is so appalling.

Petulantly calling the Chinese “rat****ers” when he couldn’t get his own way on his “greatest challenge of our time” at the Copenhagen global-warming farce, somehow doesn’t ring of good diplomacy.

When his “greatest challenge” became his “greatest liability”, he quickly swapped principle for possible votes. What a man!

My Chinese friends say his Cantonese is unintelligible gibberish. He has no friends here or overseas and half Labor’s front bench resigned rather than stomach him.

He needs to explain his involvement in the Heiner affair and favoured contracts awarded his wife's company.

His fiscal stupidity almost got us involved in the GFC yet he claims he saved us from something we were no more at risk of than were the Chinese.

Illegal boat arrivals? I’ll say no more!

And towing Garden Island to Brisbane without telling anyone was a good one! His home of Brisbane doesn't even have a port, just sandy flats. Crumbs!

He lies about debt, jobs and the reason we now have low interest rates. His personal vengeance undermined Gillard and almost lost Labor an election (she has not returned the favour).

His latest foray into foreign policy is to order home all Aussie expats in Syria ahead of incoming US missiles. Really Kev? Have you the slightest idea who exactly the rebels are?

No Kev, I’m sorry you’re feeling a bit aggressive right now, but we are not going to bomb Damascus and if you had a school kid’s grasp on foreign affairs you would know why.

Thank God the man you claim doesn’t have the temperament for foreign policy has seen the risks involved.

All this after only four weeks' campaigning... how can anyone seriously contemplate three years of this dolt?

And Kev, we are not a member of the UN Permanent Security Council and never will be so, do yourself a favour, settle down and take a Mogadon.

Or do us all a favour and take five or six bottles.
LARRY PICKERING 8:45AM 31 AUGUST 2013

 

[Garpal Gumnut]

It is extremely easy for partisan folk down South to mock our Queensland " I con " Kevin Rudd.

The southern press have quite fairly lambasted him for previously spending like a drunken sailor and wasting a Howard surplus.

This is not fair.

Kevin is one of our folk, and I would still believe he will win and resume his role in completely stuffing up our great country.

And it is what makes us great folks, we are one, as someone once said.

I must zip.

gg

 

[Craton]

It is extremely easy for partisan folk down South to mock our Queensland " I con " Kevin Rudd.

The southern press have quite fairly lambasted him for previously spending like a drunken sailor and wasting a Howard surplus.

This is not fair.

Kevin is one of our folk, and I would still believe he will win and resume his role in completely stuffing up our great country.

And it is what makes us great folks, we are one, as someone once said.

I must zip.

gg

Thanks GG, needed a good laugh.

 

[Calliope]

Kevin Rudd as a baby. He has just been told he can't keep it. I suppose we will see the tears flowing again when he concedes on Saturday night.:flush:

 

[drsmith]

Dear oh dear!

In his National Press Club presentation today, Kevin Rudd didn't like the second last question about his NT company tax cut.

Sky and its viewers also copped a dig from which he tried to quickly backpedal.

 

[Calliope]

I get the impression that Therese Rein is Rudd's campaign director. I think he is her puppet and she pulls the strings. This interview shows the real Rein behind the sweet smile.

http://www.2gb.com/audioplayer/13396#.Uif5QsYwe-J

 

[MrBurns]

Rudd looked absolutely stuffed on the 730 Report, Leigh Sales still couldn't get him to slip up though, on message and just wont shut up.

 

[Garpal Gumnut]

Rudd looked absolutely stuffed on the 730 Report, Leigh Sales still couldn't get him to slip up though, on message and just wont shut up.

Thanks Burnsie,

And I have met with Kevin after the 730 appearance.

Over some saveloys and vegemite he agreed finally with my advice.

He will attend the G20 Conference in St.Petersburg, leaving at 6pm tonight.

I was asked to accompany him by his nanny, but I declined as I wish to vote in the morning, and dislike changing nappies.

He was lubber lipped as ever, threw a well oiled hand through his golden quiff, and said to me as we parted.

"gg, The Australian people may ask where I am headed, well gg tell the good folks of Australia, I had to zipnik."


gg

 

[db94]

uh ohh. Not what you want one day out from the election. Not that it'll really matter

http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/...ny-giving-quotes/story-fnihsrf2-1226712703173