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Kevin Rudd's failed UN Secretary General bid : Comments

By Binoy Kampmark, published 29/7/2016

That Rudd would even think he had a chance offers an insight into a particular brand of megalomania.

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plantagenet,

So....what softies to be so repulsed by the actions of Kevin Rudd.

Do you think he should have been hugging the Chinese or Obama?

Look at this photo of Feminist Julia Gillard flirting with War Criminal Obama.

Do you think Rudd should have been doing that?

http://resources2.news.com.au/images/2012/11/20/1226520/066654-gillard-and-obama.jpg

That feminists brought Australia to the brink.

It is estimated that if she had stayed leader of the Labor party, the Labor party would have lost so many seats at the next election, they would have taken 3 to 4 elections to recover and get back within striking distance of the Liberals.

Australia would have a one party political system run by the liberal party and Tony Abbott for 9 to 12 years.

That would have been catastrophic for Australia.

And the first person Kevin Rudd should sue for defamation of character should be the Feminist Julia Gillard, for what she has said about him in public.
Posted by interactive, Sunday, 31 July 2016 2:22:15 PM
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Oh interactive

I'll hear nothing said about dear Julia. She is the most outstanding example of Labor quality in the Universe.

Some say she had a perfectly good Welsh accent when she was at primary school in Adelaide.

But cos she had good "working class" highly paid lawyer-politician Labor career aspirations she knew she had to change her accent.

So she practiced and practised and mysteriously gained a broad cockney Orrrstraayan accent by high school - miraculous really.

After 30 years as an upper-middle class union official, lawyer-Canberra politicias she has still stoutly maintained her roots. Even though I was just an occasional...

Julia is ALP-Canberra Cockney and proud of it.

Anthony Albanese is sooooo jealous.

As you can sense by now, I'm a Labor True Believer. Like Curtin or the great Billy Hughes.

Rudd? Who cares!!

Julia and her body double Pauline? Well I'm just not in to them. Well, not willingly....
Posted by plantagenet, Sunday, 31 July 2016 7:13:25 PM
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plantagenet,

I sense your undying, unfading and unethical love for Feminist Julie Gillard.

Although you must be completely jealous of War Criminal Obama, and his very close relationship to this feminist.

Australia has been forced to show ownership of Germaine Greer, and now Julia Gillard.

How totally embarrassing for Australia.

What this issue of UN Secretary-General does show is the inglorious state of politics in Australia.

If Kevin Rudd cannot be nominated as UN Secretary-general, then no politician from Australia can, not now and probably not ever.

Either they are too pro-american, or they are too feminist, or they keep their money in secret offshore accounts, or they keep getting thrown out of Parliament for contempt of Parliament and unruly behavior, or they cannot inspire anyone or anything in Australia (much less the rest of the world).

More fool the public in Australia for voting for these politicians, and encouraging them.
Posted by interactive, Sunday, 31 July 2016 7:58:40 PM
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Hi interactive

Definitly no politician, from anywhere, should be Sec Gen of the UN. Politicians need excessive self-belief and a killer need to win.

After Dag Hammarskjöld and Thant the Sec Gens, became too inhumane, Western orientated and of questionable past.

Rudd was unacceptable to his Party, to Australians and to the unfortunates that had to work for him.

We couldn't inflict Rudd on an unsuspecting world.

Also the Chinese would have vetoed his selection. Just because Rudd spoke a language he didn't "know" 1.4 Billion people.
Posted by plantagenet, Sunday, 31 July 2016 8:36:10 PM
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The haters just never cease. A man whose work ethic was to work HARD and to expect his staff and his colleagues to also work HARD for our nation. A man who world experts have said - need I list them all - that he prevented the Global Financial nCrisis damaging OUR nation. A man who was our Prime Minister twice. Whom a former Asst Sec Gen of the UN said on Saturday would make a most worthy Sec Gen. A man who understands world politics far better than most. But then he is hated by some of his more incompetent Ministers, like Garrett. Back stabbers like Shorten say nothing at all and the media allows him to get away with that cowardice. And ultra right wing media buffoons and politicians bag him senseless.
Posted by Ange, Monday, 1 August 2016 11:38:39 AM
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Ange

I agree

Rudd was our best chance of ever having an Australian as UN Secretary-general.

And if the other politicians dump on him, then they are dumping on themselves, because no other current politician could match him.

Or...who do we select to be UN Secretary-general?

Do we select a politician who hides his money in off shore accounts, and once owned a large number of shares in a company that carried out practices for logging and land-clearing that were widely regarded as being among the worst in the world.

Or maybe a politician who regularly lies and doubles back on everything he says.

Or maybe a politician who has been ejected out of Parliament on 43 occasions, but has never given the public an apology for his continuous disruption to a Parliament that the taxpayer funds.

Or maybe a politician who was suspended from Parliament for 24 hours for abusing other people, and not withdrawing her abusive remarks after she was told to do so by the Speaker, and then she likes to claim she was abused as a politician.

The quality of our politicians is in an abysmal state.
Posted by interactive, Monday, 1 August 2016 3:01:08 PM
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