Anyone else find Rudd so hollow and disingeuous when he speaks that they just walk away or turn him off?

Rudd is almost certainly on prescription pschoactive drugs.Not surprising really,it must be a real bummer to wake up in the morning and realize that the only vision you have is for a "Big Australia".

Rudd is a bureacrat through and through, a master of the meaningless phrase and dishonest in avoidance of difficult questions.

I wish politicians were more risk taking in terms of trusting in the public's capability and need for plain and honest speaking.

Pelican

your right, but they are there to bow and do as their masters tell them in the party structure.

They treat us as gullible and have a worth of $2,10 at election time.

It really is up to the people to make the change and if they are too lazy to check the information then they must also take the blame.

We could apply this same observation to Barack Obama.Brand Obama has us to believe in some idealistic rubbish about freedom and integrity,while the pragmatic Obama does the exact opposite.

Kevin Rudd,Obama,Gordon Brown like the rest of the Western leaders are subserviant to to an oligarcical system that is far removed from true democracy.

So i take it Bruce when you were a diplomat you always spoke your mind and aways acted on principle not according to what the demands of the situation were. And you never resorted to spinning anything did you?
Now that you are free of those constraints you feel liberated to pass judgement on those who are still constrained.
Rudd may be long winded and he may indeed be disingenous (there is a long tradition of that in politics). But he is doing no more than his predecessor nor of any of the recent PMs.
What annoys me about this kind of polemic is the hypocrisy of people who used to live by exactly the same kinds of rules now coming out and pontificating from a perspective of the moral high ground and sitting in judgement of those who were your peers not so long ago.
It is hypocrisy and double standards of the worst kind.