With old kev, with eating his ear wax, and now checking out past foods or agenda, how much trust do you all have with our leaders?

Or, can anyone do the job. lol

Is this just Australian?

Please! have some fun with this.

The baulding Paul Keating didn't like from-above shots.

A friend of mine from the ABC said their staff edited together D-Notice clips: one was of a particularly arrogant farmer PM with his fly undone. I find it hard to see that perhaps a brief sight of a PM's undies is a matter of national security. :-)

Oliver. Maybe your friend at the ABC can dig up some of the offences that politicians have been charged with. I was sent an e-mail awhile ago and it listed 53 dignitaries with a list of charges like drink-drive, fraud , assault and so on, and now we have another that likes to smell where women have been sitting( WA minister). I wonder if other counties have the same problems.
I think they seem to no conscious when it comes to living the high profile life.
I really cant classify them.

Um, am I nuts or did some posts get deleted from this thread?

Sorry, I'm nuts. I thought I read posts from the Queen Elizabeth thread here, then they suddenly appeared to disappear.

As you were.

Take heart dear Vanilla.... you have that wonderful recliner to rest your 'nuttiness' (now official of course :) in.

I wasn't a great fan of Keating but I did love some of his phrases. "All tip and no iceberg" comes to mind.

Even the other day in the local Canberra Times Keating referred to a journalist who had written unfavourably of him as a "nong". You gotta laugh.

1. John Gorton, was as famous for his mangled syntax as for his mangled features and gave his critics many hours of harmless fun as they attempted to deconstruct sentences like his notorious explanation of his proposed health scheme:

"On the other hand the AMA agrees with us, or, I believe, will agree with us, that it is its policy, and it will be its policy, to inform patients who ask what the common fee is and what our own fee is, so that a patient will know whether he is going to be operated on, if that's what it is, on the basis of the common fee, or not."

2. Billy Snedden doing the thank you speech at one event in Queensland in the early '70s. Snedden had perhaps over-indulged slightly in the XXXX, and proceeded thus:

"Well, first of all I'd like to thank the good ladies of the branch here for providing such a scrumptious repast, and old Jack here for fixing up the hall, and Fred for getting us the sound system and his lovely wife for the flowers, and well, I'm sure there are other people I've forgotten, but who gives a F* # *k."

Not all the plum jam north of the Tweed could compensate.

Politicians aren't funny or a 'laugh'. When together, they are the most concentrated mass of dishonest, lying, greedy, malevolent scum that could ever be found.

Why be a politician? To gain power and money - why else?

evolution,
-Politicians! They seem to be human after all.-
If we, (their voters)are human then politicians are human too.
If we trust, respect and reelect them then how we can expect from them to change?
Yes politicians are human, smart human. The problem is with us(voters) who have blamed politicians but reelect them!
I like politicians but I like them even more when I discover how honest they are!
I HOPE TO SEE ONE DAY, LEFT AND RIGHT VOTERS, TO DEMONSTRATE SIMULTANEOUSLY AT THE OFFICES OF THEIR PREFERRED PARTIES FOR POLITICIANS LIES.
Antonios Symeonakis
Adelaid

Yes people!, they are quite the transparent little bunch of ME, MYSELFS AND I,s.( anyone here with the clue could do it). The extraordinary behaviour by some of these politician's should be looked at very closely and if considered to be outrageously distasteful they should take it upon themselves with a poll from the people and asked to simply walk away and resign.
It is important for leaders to show the grandest examples for up and coming new leaders and not the pathetic displays of a handful of bad apples.

I do see a lot of great leaders here in the making. Please follow the greats of the times and lets not forget there hearts.

All te best.

EVO

Evolution,

Not from ABC sources; I have heard of a late Justice, who had the nick-name "fish fingers", because of his appauling touching of women.

O.

Thanks oliver. Let the thread die. I found what I was looking for.