Where loyalty can get you
November 27th 2006 09:57
I don't know about you but when I was growing up I never took any interest in politics because it wasn't something that grabbed my attention. I paid little attention to Malcolm and Bob mainly because I was too young to understand them. I mean Bob seemed like a nice down to earth bloke. he seemed genuine enough for me as a seven year old to invite him to my community. Of course he never came but that is neither here nor there because I still admired him. He unfortunately was taken out of office because of disloyalty of his own party. I have a better recollection of Mr Keating as a flashy dressing, clock loving, sport hating, Prime Minister who knew how to throw a verbal bomb at the Liberal Party.
The current Prime Minister, Mr Howard seems to be more Bob Hawke than Paul Keating personality wise. I can either find him on television with the press, I can turn on the radio and hear him, or read an article he has in the paper. He certainly gets around. It's as if he is approachable and available almost anytime. I have one problem with him though and it concerns his loyalty. Now there's nothing wrong with loyalty as such but he needs to let Mr Bush know that it is time to remove his hand from a certain part of his anatomy so he can start to make his own decisions in relation to global matters such as Iraq and global warming. When they were in Vietnam together, they seemed to like each other so much that they started dressing alike! The press made some kind of issue out of the fact that they didn't give the usual handshake at the end of their press conference. To me, it was a storm in a tea cup and someone was just looking for news when there was none there. I did want to know why they decided to wear the same suit and tie though. In a way I feel sorry for him because if he wins the next general election he will have to live life without Mr Bush after 2008. He may very well start to feel the effects now as we are now beginning to see the beginning of the end of not only Mr Bush's power which has been seriously curtailed by the new Congress and Senate but by Tony Blair stepping down sometime within the next year. Is it any wonder we've started to see Mr Howard backtrack on the environment? And it would be very interesting if the next US president signed the Kyoto Protocol, wouldn't it? Where would that us as a nation, and Mr Howard politcally? Mr Howard is going to find himself isolated internationally sooner rather than later and he for the sake of all of us needs to find a way to dig his way out of what his loyalty has got us into.
The current Prime Minister, Mr Howard seems to be more Bob Hawke than Paul Keating personality wise. I can either find him on television with the press, I can turn on the radio and hear him, or read an article he has in the paper. He certainly gets around. It's as if he is approachable and available almost anytime. I have one problem with him though and it concerns his loyalty. Now there's nothing wrong with loyalty as such but he needs to let Mr Bush know that it is time to remove his hand from a certain part of his anatomy so he can start to make his own decisions in relation to global matters such as Iraq and global warming. When they were in Vietnam together, they seemed to like each other so much that they started dressing alike! The press made some kind of issue out of the fact that they didn't give the usual handshake at the end of their press conference. To me, it was a storm in a tea cup and someone was just looking for news when there was none there. I did want to know why they decided to wear the same suit and tie though. In a way I feel sorry for him because if he wins the next general election he will have to live life without Mr Bush after 2008. He may very well start to feel the effects now as we are now beginning to see the beginning of the end of not only Mr Bush's power which has been seriously curtailed by the new Congress and Senate but by Tony Blair stepping down sometime within the next year. Is it any wonder we've started to see Mr Howard backtrack on the environment? And it would be very interesting if the next US president signed the Kyoto Protocol, wouldn't it? Where would that us as a nation, and Mr Howard politcally? Mr Howard is going to find himself isolated internationally sooner rather than later and he for the sake of all of us needs to find a way to dig his way out of what his loyalty has got us into.
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