CENTCOM took 1,500 casualties today
It is amazing what an election can do. Kevin Rudd spent Day One doing the correct things, getting Oz into Kyoto, and getting Oz out of Iraq.
Labor got 53 percent of the vote and at least 83 seats in the lower house, with the Liberal-National coalition getting 46.6 percent of the vote and 47 seats, and Howard's own seat is too close to call.
According to Bush Fanatics not yet completely defunct, let alone forgotten, in fact they will fill the Inside The Beltway Sunday Political Religion Show (several outlets and times) today, the Objectively Pro-Saddam Average Aussie Voters have committed Treason, doomed Western Civilization, "Dishonor the Troops" and so on, and they should have trusted the Lib-Nats to continue to run the economy ... and ... ah ... look! a shiney object!! And it isn't the sub-prime melt-down!!!
Peace, climate change, education, health and a high-speed Internet network, how's that for administration priorities?
Comments
Eric,
For what it's worth, this short article from the Australian is making the rounds among some of the Aboriginal scholars I know. Expectations apparently started low and are heading lower.
Best
Robert
Rudd betrayed us: Pearson
Padraic Murphy | November 23, 2007
KEVIN Rudd has betrayed aboriginal people after abandoning a promise to pursue a constitutional referendum on reconciliation if he is elected Prime Minister, Noel Pearson said today.
The director of the Cape York Institute said he "dreaded a Rudd Prime Ministership" who he branded "innately contemptuous of indigenous people"after The Australian reported that the ALP would not pursue a reconciliation preamble to the Constitution.
"Mr Rudd's (support for the referendum) has been thrown into the dustbin two days before he hopes to become Australia's prime minister," Mr Pearson said. "Mr Rudd has now reneged on the commitment. It shows a flagrant contempt for indigenous policy."
Despite the ALP committing to a referendum on reconciliation in October, Mr Rudd said that while he understood the proposal for an Aboriginal reconciliation preamble to the Constitution was a big change for Mr Howard, but he did not feel the need to pursue it.
"From my point of view, the key thing is closing the gap (between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal living standards) and the key to this also is to introduce policies that give effect to closing the gap,'' Mr Rudd said.
"I am concerned about making advances on the practical front first. Let's take other things subsequent to that.''
Mr Pearson said Mr Rudd, who he once worked with in Brisbane, had "innately contemptuous view of indigenous people."
"From this betrayal I dread a Rudd prime ministership," Mr Pearson said.
Posted by: Robert | November 26, 2007 01:06 AM