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I'm not going to pretend to be anything less than prejudiced in my political views. When faced with a political system where the voting populace has become polarised to the point where there are only two likely outcomes, I have opted for the outcome that I consider to more closely match my values. That does not constitute automatic agreement with everything that my preferred political party does!
My expression of contempt for the ALP was included in this post in order to ensure that my expressed dissatisfaction with John Howard's behaviour wouldn't be misinterpreted as an expression of allegiance for the ALP.
Having read your various posts Rumpole, I can see that you are very intelligent and I therefore assume that you will have already recognised this.
I also am intelligent enough to recognise that your political philosophy is at significant variance to my own, and I am somewhat doubtful that anything productive will eventuate from us debating the finer points, however, I do thank you for taking the time to read my post.
In answer to your question, Julia, yes I am able to denigrate John Howard without using pejoratives if that makes yourself and GG happier. Given the overall derogatory tone of my post I am somewhat surprised that the pejorative was your key complaint, but I do value your guidance in this forum just the same.
For what it's worth, I always understood this pejorative to be a reference to John's media persona. To me his gestures combined with the way he spoke often seemed reminiscent of a schoolboy. In any case I accept that this pejorative could still be viewed in a derogatory context and given that some here have taken offense to its use, I shall desist from using it in future.
You're quite right Calliope! I've never known anyone to call Hawke little Bobby. In fact there aren't enough expletives in the English language to adequately describe the depth of my contempt for him and what he tried to do to Australia.
Thanks for the support Caveman. Until I read your post I was wondering if it was just me who felt that way. I've seen one of my most admired Australian politicians referred to as "destroyer" (rhymes with her surname) on ASF, however, I did not see any reason to take offence for similar reasons to those that you've so aptly pointed out. (When in Rome...).