Now let me get this straight.
You're criticising a politician for being a politician.

Mr Lewis. I give you a high distinction for getting to the end of this essay.

Mr Rudd, you are hereby sentenced to spending your next leave (informal or otherwise) without your lap top, pen, paper or any other material that could be used to construct writing (including crayons).

In my opinion, this essay just proves Mr Rudd's communication and policy ineffectiveness, and attempts to deflect attention from that.

Bad Kevin.

When someone really understands an issue, they can explain it in a way that makes it sound simple. Kevin has never made a statement about anything that wasn't at least twice as long as it should have been. Mr Lewis' essay could have been shortened too. 6000 word essays will make Kevin look smart to some people, but won't fool all of us.

Multi-function propolis

How to make complicated things look simple for simple people...I personnel think it's great that we have a PM who is capable of writing a 6000 word article. This constant dumbing down of the political landscape is a big problem in my opinion

Kenny that's the trouble with kevvy's rhetoric. It's trying to dumb down everybody. With some it obviously works eh?

Of course Rudd's essays are propaganda, but, as Kenny says, it's wonderful that we have a PM with the capacity and intelligence to actually write them.

And Kenny, if you want to truly appreciate Keith's qualifications as a critic, have a look through his post history for the staunch defences of George W. Bush's mighty intellect. No joke. Keith reckons Bush is a man of great learning and wisdom.

Most people won't read the essay but rather (like me!) rely on the glossy positive spin achieved in the electronic media.

It sounded good on TV and radio that he had written something that long, which shows he must be clever because who can write anything like 6000 words , I mean that's like 40 Tweets! What-ever!!

I think this will feed the public perception that Rudd is smart, on top of the issues, and ahead of the pack.

All that with only a few hardy souls actually having read it.

An election is about a year away. I am not surprised that propaganda, spin , or simply plain old politics is starting to sharpen up now.

Turnbull must be blaming his old dog Wilson for eating his homework, otherwise we would be talking about his "magnus hopeless".

Rudd 1 Turnbull 0

Game on!!

And Sancho,

Good 'ole Obama is confirming Good ole George's intellect by continuing all Good 'ole George's policies and initiatives, and slowly and surely like Rudd dumping the impossible promises he made to his electorate.

Only difference here to there is the media in the states are no longer sucking up to their fool like our media is here to ours.

This is outrageous!

Better for him to tell us nothing and take us nowhere and leave this sort of thing to professional spin merchants and poll analysts.

You obviously can see through the politicians wrecking the country. A pellucid and perspicacious commentary.

His little essay is economics 101. States the bleeding obvious; demand goes up, prices go up, that's all she wrote. Being honest with the Australian people (Krudd's words, not mine) isn't the point though. Uh-uh!

Politically, writing an essay on that, calling "the bumpy road", is an attempt by the kardboard kut-out to instill fear and anxiety into the public, into which the kaped krusader Kevin0-whatever flies to repair the pillars holding the sky from falling with band-aid policy, thereby positioning himself as the go-to guy when all's bad. Only has to do one tiny thing positive (or buy the gullible with another 900 bucks) and the people will fall to their knees. Kevin, you saved us again!

It's just political maneuvering, isn't it Kev, you sly ol' dog?

Oh, for an opposition that can break the wave Kev's riding right now.....

That wave might be breaking in Qld if an enquiry into donations to politicians takes place. Watch the boys from Ipswich when they try to explain what the chinese are getting for all that money.

Fitzgerald only bought down a state government. Bligh's claims to launch an open enquiry might backfire all over Kevvy.

Oz is too gullible to resist Rudds propaganda , stupidity is their mantra , as they sink to the ground starving they will cry out for him.

Come on! convince me this wasnt written with Bruce Haigh (OLO 31st July) over a few bottles of red!

Not a bad essay - pretty clever in some repsects - but I get the sense you are a bit miffed that Kevin might be cleverer still - the essay in a sense ( rudds ) was a form of propaganda - it's wat pollies do - I figured some where at some time you pontificated endlessly to undergraduates about the importance of leaders to control the agenda - there are too many scatter gun assertion to ctitique the whole damn thing all I can say is that I hope you feel better now - do they still use chalk in Universities?

Ahhh Sancho dear Sancho,

'defences of George W. Bush's mighty intellect. No joke. Keith reckons Bush is a man of great learning and wisdom.'

So you think a man with a Degree in History from Yale, an Honours Degree in Management from Harvard and who managed to be elected as the President of the US for two terms lacks learning and wisdom?

Yeahhh right.

And Kevvy has a degree in what from where? So you'd have no great opinion of his learning and wisdom would you?

Hasta la vista mi amigo.