It is a considered right of passage to use the talent of people who have risen to the top of their game.
The arrogance of Malcolm in determining what is best for the world, when he probably has no idea what the role calls for and the credentials needed is appalling;
the task of foreign diplomats and professional diplomats is not party politik but a esprit de corps of people who speak a language and semaphore that cuts through personality and petty party hates.
I'm sure there is an army of armchair Australians out there who looked on with glee at seeing our man get his just deserts at the hands on Malcolm....
I just wonder how many of those people understand how international politics works and how thick the hides of the people in there are.
You may have nailed it.
Assuming he hasn't changed.
With all the derogatory comments about megalomania he would have to do something to prove that those days are over.
You can only assert megalomania if you have actual power. The job he wants is so powerless that Genghis Khan would not be able to achieve anything in it.
Malcolm Turnbull isn’t petty and mean-spirited like that. He bowed to pressure from the “blue Blues” … (who) can’t see anything except politics; they have tunnel vision, they can’t see the good of the nation.
Yeah but it would "put Australia on the map" ........ for about the 100th time in as many years
Refusing to support a former PM for petty party politics puts Australia also on the map - albeit for all the wrong reasons. The blue-tie, right-wing faction of Mal's Noalition should hang their head in shame for making Australia the laughing stock of the world; at least among the nations that can still be bothered to follow our shenanigans and care about such matters... :1zhelp:
If the age of entitlement is over for us poor punters, it should well and truly be over for the polies.
Alternatively, not supporting someone who has been proven without doubt to be unsuitable for the job may actually enhance Australia's reputation. If you want to talk about being a laughing stock, any thinking person would regard us as a laughing stock for proposing to fill the roll of such an eminent position someone who only a few short years ago was deemed to be incompetent, impossible to work with, a megalomaniac, cry baby and even a psychopath ..... and that was by his friends.
Proposing Rudd would be just as damaging to Australia's reputation as has been selecting Trump for the Republican party.
You don't maintain integrity and trust by proposing someone purely on the basis he is Australian no matter how bad he is.
If the age of entitlement is over for us poor punters, it should well and truly be over for the polies.
I don't like the man (Kev), I'm not a Labor rusted on, but I admire Rudd for his drive & intellect and still think Mal has made a poor and divisive call that is a smoking gun to his future. But you are right about the entitlement thing and if it means the Pynes, Andrews, Abotts, etc don't get a retired bum on some seat in the future I'm happy.
Rudd's petulance post-announcement, tells us why so many thought him unfit for the office.
Rudd's petulance post-announcement, tells us why so many thought him unfit for the office.
Turnbull is an infant on the international circuit and does not have the credentials to know what the UN wants or needs. He's a political leader of a pissant country by world standards.
Rudd's petulance post-announcement, tells us why so many thought him unfit for the office.
I think we should a Royal Commission to find out why Kevvie was not suitable....Nah....just ask the Labor Party what they thought of their man when he was PM.
Will someone tell Kevin Rudd it is over unless he can get another country to nominate him.
He is still running around like a chook with it's head chopped off.
His statement that Turnbull's reputation and that of Australia has been tarnished is refuted by the USA.
So please Kevin, sail off into the sunset.:horse::007:
Top American foreign policy experts (plural) ..........
Following the former prime minister’s accusation last week that Malcolm Turnbull had *allowed a “monstrous intrusion” of domestic politics to international affairs, potentially diminishing the government’s reputation, US experts have cast doubt on his claim to have had a “real shot”.
David Shambaugh, (that's one expert) a professor of international affairs at George Washington University in Washington DC, said Australia’s reputation had been “enhanced” by rejecting Mr Rudd’s candidacy.
“Rudd’s longstanding, widely known and well-earned reputation for poor interpersonal skills, alienating public relations, inept bureaucratic skills, enormous ego and solicitousness of the Chinese government are all reasons he should not have been nominated,” he told The Australian.
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Of course David is one of those self propelled people who are salivating at the prospect China will collapse into a shattered mess.
Reminds me of those infomercials that back up their gobbledygook with the endorsement of a, let's say, compromised expert and sham institute.
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