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Again I am not saying they are not, I am pointing out the issue involving Rudd, Rudd fiercly denying it and then Rudd turning around and saying he may have been going, but he's not sure and that they did recieve an email that seems to have been (conveniently) overlooked. And to me it's sounds odd at this point his defence being the amount of emails his office recieves. My office receives a great deal as well.

My last post wasn't intended to sound like me accusing you of claiming Rudd's faux-pas are worse than Johnny's.

To be honest I'm not really concerned about this, even if Jo Hockey and Bronwyn Bishop were involved it's too "small potatoes".

Rudd must have learnt the old "blame a staff member" or "claim the email was over-looked due to large volumes received" from Howard's "dodgy defence strategies" book.

Quoted from aquamonkey

If John-John was in the same position people on this forum would be screaming murder and you know it. Can you smell the corruption or is it limited to who's corruption it happens to be?

Oh I can smell the corruption all right. This one's just too "small potatoes". Does anyone really care?

You may need use super-glue if you want this kinda sh*t to stick to Rudd  

Rudd's a grub.

Is that it: “a grub”?  Better a grub than Bush’s b****.

Quoted from tramp

Is that it: “a grub”?  Better a grub than Bush’s b****.

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KEVIN Rudd vowed the US would remain Australia's most important ally as he headed to America on his first overseas visit as opposition leader.

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,21579752-1702,00.html



MEDIA WHORE! Any place theirs a TV camera theirs Rudd having sex with it

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KEVIN Rudd vowed the US would remain Australia's most important ally as he headed to America on his first overseas visit as opposition leader

A strong relationship with the US is important, but Howard made it a partisan relationship with Bush, which made it comical and counter-productive.

Quoted from aquamonkey

MEDIA WHORE!

An odd proclamation if you want to be taken seriously.

Name me a politician who isn’t.

Well back up their sport, how many other politicians cohost an entire TV show? One that has no involvement in politics? Krudd just stepped aside from Sunrise due to his busy schedule (yeah it had nothing to do with anything else), but he has time to dance and cook with Kerrie Anne. maybe if he spent some more time in the office he'd get to all his emails!

Interesting choice of shows if he wants to be taken seriously

Quoted from aquamonkey

Well back up their sport, how many other politicians cohost an entire TV show? One that has no involvement in politics? Krudd just stepped aside from Sunrise due to his busy schedule (yeah it had nothing to do with anything else), but he has time to dance and cook with Kerrie Anne. maybe if he spent some more time in the office he'd get to all his emails!

Interesting choice of shows if he wants to be taken seriously

Here is the name denigration again. Never see in any of your posts a mangling of a coalition pollies name. Always a sign of a weak argument and the lowest base denominator of someone who cannot put forward a logical debate.

Then there is the second point, exaggeration. Kevin Rudd has never cohosted an entire TV show, please just name one instance where he has done this?

...and let me think, didn't Peter Costello dance on Kerrie-Anne, and haven't Coalition pollies appeared on cooking shows, my heaven's yes.

Howard makes an average of 10 media appearances a day, and most shamelessly uses the military and our troops for political gain every chance he gets. In comparison what Rudd and Hockey have been doing is tame.

Also the Coalition dominate all forms of media, especially print and radio, so any accusations of media whores fits many times more to them.

Well the Rudd cheer squad is out as expected! He co-hosted 'MORNINGS WITH KERRI-ANNE' this week, he was not on their simply for an interview or one segment.

I didn't know he was a co-host for an entire show and thus got equal billing to Kerrie-Anne, if true I concede your point that Kevin has indeed co-hosted an entire non-political show, and good on him. Didn't Costello also do the same?

The rest of my points stand.

...and aren't you the cheer squad for Howard and come out as expected to defend him?

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Rudd makes the jump to Nine
Tuesday Apr 17 00:26 AEST
Opposition Leader Kevin Rudd's sun may have gone down on Seven but looks set to rise on rival Nine Network.

Mr Rudd will co-host Nine's Mornings with Kerri-Anne program on Wednesday - just two days after being forced to dump his weekly spot on Seven's Sunrise program, The Australian newspaper reports.

Nine said Mr Rudd would act as co-host, "spending the whole show with Kerri-Anne" where he will "review movies with Andrew Mercado, cook chocolate with famous chocolatier Max Brenner, and even be there for a conversation with champion swimmer Brooke Hanson and her fiance".

Mr Rudd quit his regular spot on Sunrise following sustained criticism over his role in the breakfast show's plan to broadcast a fake Anzac Day service.

He denied he pulled out of Sunrise because of the Anzac Day fiasco, instead attributing the move to the cold political realities of an election year.

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=261407

As I've said before I have no fondness for any particular political party I do however believe the Liberals manage better, any time I doubt that I look at the administration we have going on in NSW!

This one really cracked me up.

Saw a sound bite this morning from last night's Australian Story piece on Alexander Downer (which I refused to watch) in they caught a behind doors piece of Alexander saying to a bunch of dignitaries that Kevin Rudd is the vainest man he has ever met, and he has been in politics for a long time and met some very vain people but Kevin takes the cake.

Two things come to mind.

One, Alexander if you want to see the vainest person ever in Australian politics just open your eyes in front of the mirror each morning.

Two, the blackest pot in the kitchen calling the cleanest kettle black.

I was in two minds as well about watching and didn't end up watching it. Although it may have been funny, the "vain" comment is certainly comical, the same man than donned fishnet stockings calling Rudd a publicity whore. You couldn't find a bigger toff/dumba*s of a politician than Downer. Keating so fittingly described him as "the idiot son of the aristocracy".

He's an embarrassment to the Liberal Party and an embarrassment to intelligence.

I might try and catch the second part for a laugh.

Rudd gets his way on uranium mines

The Labor party national conference has narrowly supported a motion by party leader Kevin Rudd to scrap the "no new uranium mines" policy.

Frontbencher Anthony Albanese's motion to maintain the ban on new uranium mines was supported by 190 conference delegates, and 205 backed Mr Rudd.

Mr Rudd's motion sparked the only heated debate of the conference so far.

New party president John Faulkner was among those who voted for Mr Albanese's motion to keep the ban, but shortly after announced that Mr Rudd's motion was carried.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200704/s1908940.htm

Not happy, Jan!  

Midnight Oil's singer..... I mean shadow minister for the environment   musn't be happy about that.