November 24
Posted by Christopher Sheil on Sunday, October 14, 2007
The good news is that the election date has been set. The bad news is that the campaign proper will now begin. The only thing I’m looking forward to is actually voting and the end of all those wretched advertisements on television. Until then, I’m thinking that I’ll do my best to avoid Australian politics like the plague. In my first and probably last election post, all I want to say is: go Kevin!
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Rudd was good today, Chris. Measured strong clear line; easily consummable for the punter; taking the negatives head on. Howard has a fight on his hands.
Posted on 14-Oct-07 at 2:35 pm | PermalinkGood. I don’t think I can watch. I’ll just check with friends on progress every now and again.
Posted on 14-Oct-07 at 4:10 pm | PermalinkFair enough. On recent form, I’m backing The Shooter’s Party to win.
Posted on 14-Oct-07 at 4:31 pm | PermalinkI felt similarly yesterday Chris and considered doing my best to avoid politics for the next six weeks. I could easily do so, but know I won’t. Its too profound, not the politicking, but the time.
Six weeks seems like a long time to have to put up with more of the same but with added intensity. It will fly. Howard will go, or so pretty much 99% of the population believe, but Rudd, as is the world generally, is in for a rough trot over the next few years–largely as a consequence of the most damaging leaders the world has had to endure. Good riddance to them. Hils will probably be the first female Pres, as they seem more readily able to accept a white woman than a black man. But climate wise, energy wise, resource wise, its gonna hit the fan, probably in her’s and young Kev’s reign.
The times they are a changin’.
See it as sport. As Abbott endearingly once said, there’s no point getting too concerned about it [bird flu]. We’re all going to die anyway. I detested Tony Abbott less, for a second or so, when I heard this remark.
Posted on 15-Oct-07 at 7:19 am | PermalinkIf this is your last election post – for the whole of the next six weeks – I will eat my hat.
Posted on 15-Oct-07 at 7:28 pm | PermalinkZoe I agree, not with the hat-eating but with the moniker. Its proving difficult in an ever increasing disparate blogosphere to find a cogent analysis and a gathering of like-minds.
Posted on 16-Oct-07 at 9:21 am | Permalink