Love that Keating

[canetoad]

"It was bad enough having the real John Howard ... at least Howard was a militant, aggressive conservative driving in reverse through the rear-vision mirror."

Mr Abbott was an "intellectual nobody no policy ambition".

http://www.smh.com.au/national/abbott--poor-mans-john-howard-keating-20100316-qb12.html

[mackerel]

1. Worth noting:

"Mr Keating said the Rudd government deserved to be re-elected on its reaction to the global recession alone, saving Australia from an "economic holocaust" that had massively crunched the US and Britain."

[canetoad]

2. Have you noticed the stories around

over the past few days that say Kev is not charismatic or well liked? Sorry but I don't want a PM who wins popularity contests, but one who has a good head and good policies.

[Matilda]

3. The ABC (which has a climate denier as Chairman)

has been furiously peddling stories saying that Labor is now looking to Julia Gillard as leader because of Kevin
Rudd's low popularity rating.

He's still on 48% approval, higher than Kim Beazley ever reached, and still way ahead of Abbott as preferred leader -
55-30%. And that's the figure that counts - prior to Kevin Rudd's appointment as Labor leader, polls regularly
showed the two-party preferred vote favouring Labor, but John Howard was way ahead of Beazley as preferred PM. And
he kept winning elections.

Of course, with 70% of newspapers controlled by Murdoch, and all of FTA television owned by conservatives, what can
we expect?

It's a pity that Aunty has joined the throng of witless nutters. When is Rudd going to replace the Howard-appointed
Board?

[depakid]

4. "When is Rudd going to replace the Howard-appointed Board?"

I'd like very much to know that, too.