Thought I'd start something lighthearted after the nuclear bogeyman and electoral system postings.

So who do you love? Love to hate? Laugh at? Laugh with? Think has charactor? Think is a charactor.

My own preferences.

Government.

http://www.amandavanstone.com
http://www.philipruddock.com

QLD Federal Senators

http://www.russelltrood.com
http://www.georgebrandis.com

QLD Federal Members

http://www.markvaile.com
http://www.garyhardgrave.com

QLD State Members

http://www.michaelcaltabiano.com
http://www.jannstuckey.com

QLD Candidates

http://www.lynnejennings.com
http://www.rosbates.com
http://www.amandawiklund.com

NATIONALS

http://www.lawrencespringborg.com

No single reason. They are frequently in the news and I find their antics entertaining. I myself am a Liberal. I flipped a coin and that's the way it landed.

http://www.bruceflegg.com is becoming amusing.

Huuuwaaaaarrr….as hard as I try I just can’t find anything light-hearted in our political scene!

Now if you were to talk about George W Shrub, ok I could appreciate some humour (in fact quite a lot of laughing and crying at the same time!) in the enormous irony of such a person being the most powerful man in the world.

But in Oz, o gawd its just so blaaaand. {:>{

How do you divorce the ‘agree’ factor from the ‘like’ or ‘respect’ factor?

Dunno. But it means that the number of pollies that I in any way like is pretty small. I sorta like Ruddock, Vanstone, Gillard and ….(oh no, this’ll be my undoing on OLO)….H H H Howard !!

And past pollies – Don Chipp and John Coulter….and I guess old Gough.

I agree, Ludwig. 'Bland' is the perfect word to describe the Australian political scene.

If I had to pick a favourite, without doubt, it would be Jon Stewart. He's not exactly a 'politician' but he's a 'political figure', and someone who I admire greatly.

I suppose I would find George W Shrub rather comical if he wasn't the most powerful figure on earth. Well, once upon a time at any rate, he's killed more people in Iraq than even Saddam Hussein could boast and his influence is plumetting as even his own party distances itself. If he makes it to 2009 then I'll owe my brother $50.

I think we have a few charactors in Oz. Our Parliament has it's share of mudslingers. Mike Catlabiano has a vicious tongue and a few of the others I mentioned can hold their own.

Ruddock, Vanstone and Gillard are certainly in my top ten of favourites. Actually, better make that top 5. I don't think I have a top 10.

Yes, they don't make Pollies like Gough any more but Pauline Hanson certainly was a charactor.

I just received a call from the lovely candidate for South Brisbane Lynn Jennings who I promised to help out this Saturday. The other candidate I included was Amanda Wiklund who is an ex-military single mum and sounds like just the sort of lady we need. You may have noticed all of my choices were coalition members. If I'd included the Labour, Democrats, Greens, Gun lobby etc then I'd need to post an extra two messages.

I thought Paul Keatings devastatinlgy sharp wit fascinating...only truly intelligent people are truly funny...he was 'hot' too..very sexy..well i am a girl so thats my take..
Amanda Vanstone is revolting and nasty..Phillip Ruddock reminds me of the grim reaper and John Howard is just plain evil...Yes I think George dublyah is funny as ,but a worry that he leads America...hes evil and stupid...thats SPOOKY.

Pfffff… I just had to do a very smart run outside and puke off my back balcony!

Keating was sexy?! ?!. Uh uh oh ooooh ….. oh there are just no words to describe the shock! I’ve certainly never heard anyone say that before!! And intelligent? Nope – haven’t heard that one before either. And sharp-witted? – um…..no.

‘duuur umm, tha weceshun we haayud to er eeer aahm… hayave’!

That’s about how I remember him saying it!

Isn’t it amazing how we develop such radically different impressions of our politicians…. or maybe of people in general.

Ludwig I think your a bloke ,in which case you wouldnt think he was sexy would you?

And he was super intelligent..the average aussie voter wasnt smart enough to see that..he was the best leader this country ever had..in my time anyway ,but the pple decided to make it a popularity contest instead of voting in or out the best leader they voted in John Howard ,now how smart does that make the average voter in this country? ..since then this country has gone down the tube and that evil little worm continues to smile and lie.We should have to sit a test to see if we have the intelligence to lodge a well considered and informed vote based on fact.

And if you are a woman then there is no hope for you woman...pretty nice peice of horseflesh to me.

Ozgirl, I think I’m a bloke too [but sometimes I’m not sure!! (:>()].

Daaarling, I find lots of guys attraaactive.

But no… the thought of ‘that person’ being in any way attractive is just oow oh uh arrgh repulsive!

You know, he was right though – we DID have to have a recession, because of the stupid way we go about things that promulgates the boom and bust cycle.

So what did he do about it? He tried to boost the whole show in order to give us an ever-bigger economy, without thinking at all, apparently, about a bigger economy translating into improvements in quality of life for the average person. Indeed, the per-capita economy was not set to grow under Keating, which is surely the bottom line rather than the gross economy.

In fact he had the whole business so arse about face that he introduced the baby bonus in order to boost the population so that our overall economy would continue to grow…..without it improving average per-capita economic turnover or standard of living.

The economy was the bottom line, not our quality of life!

Wonky politics indeed! And certainly not the realm of an intelligent person who was in touch with the real world. But then he was a numbers and financially-oriented character… without a clue about science, environment or finite resources.

Ludwig L
[A mere (fully hetero) male]

Ludwig..'fully hetereo male'...sounds like ur trying to convince someone..daaarrrling.

Anyway...Paul and Bill Clinton very tasty...power, charisma, good looks..
Whoa! What else does a girl want?

And yes ...I guess you could be a bloke at that.