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Correct, but the three dicks were there to be woo'd after the election. And your mob couldn't.
I don't see that as an appropriate analogy at all. How can anyone 'forget' that the US is so massively in debt with no way out except to continue printing money, something the Democrats seem disposed to keep doing.It's similar to the feelings that I had in the U.S. Crash thread where I stated that I was firmly in the 'recovery' camp. People WILL forget how bad things got over there; it is human nature to look forward. Similarly here, some people WILL forget some of the things that upset them with Labor/Gillard over the journey and live by the adage Better The Devil You Know etc.
Essentially agree. She's in a position to appear to be hanging tough as you put it, simply because Rudd doesn't have the numbers. Therefore no particular credit to her, rather she's the beneficiary of the distaste much of the caucus and the electorate rightly has for Rudd. It does not, imo, make her a successful Prime Minister.Politics aside, on the specific point of Gillard hanging tough, I think it has worked very well for her - does anyone else have an opinion?
Oh dear, how you are totally ignoring the virulent history all three had with the National Party. It was their moment in the sun, the wonderful opportunity they had to take revenge on the Nationals for their grievances. It wouldn't have mattered if Tony Abbott had been the Archangel Gabriel or Jesus Christ himself, or if either of these had offered them the world on a plate, they were never, ever going to miss their chance of revenge.Correct, but the three dicks were there to be woo'd after the election. And your mob couldn't.
Ta.
Politics aside, on the specific point of Gillard hanging tough, I think it has worked very well for her - does anyone else have an opinion?
However I feel 90% of voters have made up their minds already. It is now just a waiting game and to see how many more stuff ups happen.
Yes you are entitled to your opinion.
I will accept the verdict of the voters. lol
If the Libs. get in they will operate as a party team, not as a "punch and judy" show.
(i hope).
From one of the posts below, I will agree Gillard has got to be better PM than Rudd,
but she has committed many more sins.
(in the Catholic religion there are two sins, venial(little) and mortal(big). For Gillard we need another category
joea
The same way that everyone has forgotten about the death of Kim Jong-il in North Korea and the global uncertainty of What Would Happen Next.I don't see that as an appropriate analogy at all. How can anyone 'forget' that the US is so massively in debt with no way out except to continue printing money, something the Democrats seem disposed to keep doing.
The same way that everyone has forgotten about the death of Kim Jong-il in North Korea and the global uncertainty of What Would Happen Next.
Yesterday's news.
I can understand your nausea. No credit to Chris Urhlman for allowing Ms Gillard to talk over him and essentially take charge of the interview.Julia on T.V having a beer tonight, I think I am going to be sick.
Hahaha ditch healthcare.Julia on T.V having a beer tonight, I think I am going to be sick. Obviously Bob's pep talk at the BBQ struck a note.
By the way Todster, cant retire till 67 and your healthcares going up, you fat cat.
Hahaha ditch healthcare.
Until election time, then it's look.. 'I'm drinking a beer, I'm just like you'. The ALP plays blue collar workers off a break...That is the problem when you have chardonnay socialists running the show, they think they represent the worker, but they don't even know a worker!!!!!!!
http://australianpolitics.com/parties/alp/chifley-light-on-the-hill-speech
“The Light On The Hill” – Speech by Ben Chifley
Prime Minister Ben Chifley delivered this speech to an ALP Conference in 1949.
"..I try to think of the Labour movement, not as putting an extra sixpence into somebody’s pocket, or making somebody Prime Minister or Premier, but as a movement bringing something better to the people, better standards of living, greater happiness to the mass of the people. We have a great objective – the light on the hill – which we aim to reach by working the betterment of mankind not only here but anywhere we may give a helping hand. If it were not for that, the Labour movement would not be worth fighting for.."
Whether the Rudd/Gillard/Brown govt has delivered "something better to the people, better standards of living, greater happiness to the mass of the people" will be evaluated by voters at the polling booths in 2012 or 2013.
Whether a straight-talking 'bushy', a train driver and son of a blacksmith, would have a career future in the ALP of 2012 is open to conjecture. Frankly, I don't think the party represents that demographic any more.
Unfortunately for the ALP, the original brave men and women who toiled for the workers would not recognise the shambolic chardonnay bourgeois of the present ALP who rule from safe public service and union positions now at the expense of the workers.
The light on the hill is stuck far up somewhere , where the sun don't never shine.
gg
Our leading lady has now placed a zip on the lips of all Labor MP's.
What next???? Geez, she must be running very scared.
http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/...eak-as-one-voice/story-e6freonf-1226267668546
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