Comments on: The rise of the politician writer http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/07/27/the-rise-of-the-politician-writer/ now with extra source Sat, 11 Feb 2012 23:34:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Venise Alstergren http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/07/27/the-rise-of-the-politician-writer/#comment-32814 Venise Alstergren Thu, 30 Jul 2009 07:39:13 +0000 http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=75997#comment-32814 Once again I feel moved to nominate Tony Abbott for a gold coloured dog-poop catcher for his gritty self-deluded determination to churn out a book-God! His publishers are game-which will appeal to hard right-wing Catholics, librarians and desperate students wishing to use the paper to build a fire in their cheerless digs. Although why he didn't play to his audience and out himself as Australia's very own Quisling is a mystery. I raise my coffee cup to the man who has done more to undermine the Constitution as laid down by our ancestors, namely that the land of Oz is a secular state and not another foetid game of footy, than almost any other Australian. PS Love your new hair-do Bernard, I hadn't realized how good looking you are. Once again I feel moved to nominate Tony Abbott for a gold coloured dog-poop catcher for his gritty self-deluded determination to churn out a book-God! His publishers are game-which will appeal to hard right-wing Catholics, librarians and desperate students wishing to use the paper to build a fire in their cheerless digs.

Although why he didn’t play to his audience and out himself as Australia’s very own Quisling is a mystery.

I raise my coffee cup to the man who has done more to undermine the Constitution as laid down by our ancestors, namely that the land of Oz is a secular state and not another foetid game of footy, than almost any other Australian.

PS Love your new hair-do Bernard, I hadn’t realized how good looking you are.

]]> By: Chris Johnson http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/07/27/the-rise-of-the-politician-writer/#comment-32444 Chris Johnson Tue, 28 Jul 2009 01:12:17 +0000 http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=75997#comment-32444 I’ll be generous and dismiss Rudd’s newspaper ads as more home-state related quirky PR. But Coalition members declaring Party and leadership loyalty as they rush to advertise personal and political agendas is a different kettle of fish. Either robust party room debate isn’t working or they can’t toe the party line because there isn’t one. Abbott’s Battlelines is silly snake-oil salesman stuff - how to fix broken marriages, climate change, federalism and whatever else he thinks the Party and press gallery aren't spinning his way. The Costello Memoirs, Iron-bar Tuckey’s leadership spray are more of the same from a frustrated group of Liberal wannabe’s minus a vision. The best advice this week came from The Australian’s Glenn Milne on how to deal with their mad Uncle: “just take him out the back and politically take the next logical step”. Maybe they should all head for the back door. I’ll be generous and dismiss Rudd’s newspaper ads as more home-state related quirky PR. But Coalition members declaring Party and leadership loyalty as they rush to advertise personal and political agendas is a different kettle of fish. Either robust party room debate isn’t working or they can’t toe the party line because there isn’t one. Abbott’s Battlelines is silly snake-oil salesman stuff - how to fix broken marriages, climate change, federalism and whatever else he thinks the Party and press gallery aren’t spinning his way. The Costello Memoirs, Iron-bar Tuckey’s leadership spray are more of the same from a frustrated group of Liberal wannabe’s minus a vision. The best advice this week came from The Australian’s Glenn Milne on how to deal with their mad Uncle: “just take him out the back and politically take the next logical step”. Maybe they should all head for the back door.

]]> By: j-boy57 http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/07/27/the-rise-of-the-politician-writer/#comment-32436 j-boy57 Mon, 27 Jul 2009 22:52:17 +0000 http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=75997#comment-32436 the fetus , just another god botherer who has the gall to dispute the science of co2 as inconclusive whilst embracing the imaginary , brainwashed in cult of christianity, and whose antics we encourage by allowing the "lords prayer " to be recited in the parliament.Which can be confusing to Tony because it kicks off with our father a term which must generate angst in the ranks of the cuckold. You've got to hand it to Turnbull, the Liberal party is looking a lot like the Republican movement, that'd be doomed. the fetus , just another god botherer who has the gall to dispute the science of co2 as inconclusive whilst embracing the
imaginary , brainwashed in cult of christianity, and whose antics we encourage by allowing the “lords prayer ” to be recited in the parliament.Which can be confusing to Tony because it kicks off with our father a term which must generate angst in the ranks of the cuckold.
You’ve got to hand it to Turnbull, the Liberal party is looking a lot like the Republican movement, that’d be doomed.

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