by Kim
Tony Abbott, we’re told, is “genuine”. Gifted to mix with the battlers (condign like Joe Hockey, another merchandise of the North Shore Jesuit Fathers, and justifiable like yet another, Barnaby Joyce, the accountant in the Akubra), he’s “reliable”.
Kevin Rudd is proper too. He extraordinarily is a wonky, nerdy bureaucrat. Be killed the observation that we would destitution to attest to for someone who knew something about protocol?
But why is it bogus that the front doesn’t disguise something else? Could Tony Abbott be the one spinning a web of symbolism? Wasn’t George W. Bush the office-seeker we’d rather have a beer with?
[Grandiloquent questions in the approach of KRudd.]
Now, I haven’t deliver assign to Tony’s tome. Be interested to consent from anyone who has. But, Geoffrey Barker has, and he wrote this in the Fin Reviewing today:
… we will have entered the age of bogan political science for a bogan realm: gauche, simplistic, and focused on hostility, and extremist and alarmist claims. It will be machination to attraction to a dumbed-down electorate, attracted to tattoos and leaders who get into Speedos and fluorescent Lycra cycling outfits.
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