Mikk

I love your commitment to opinions other than your own. Maybe we could give you the OLO tolerance award.

you ask

'Where is your outrage and condemnation of your kiddy fiddling priests? A far more serious danger to children than ms Gillard having an affair.'

go to the 10 or so posts already on this subject including the ones you commenced. I think I take your comments as a complement. Do you really care about kids or do u just hate the Catholic church so much of which I am not a part of. At least you are now calling me a Christian. Thanks.

Foxy

Your point about previous and current Liberal members is very valid. I realise that I am sometimes naive thinking that some past PM’s were people of great character. At least that’s what I along with many others like to believe. Whenever you put your faith in any man other than Christ you end up disappointed. Politics has always been a dirty game. It appeared that the US press were and are prepared to pull up as much dirt as possible on Palin (whether true or not).

Yep true runner. Read mikks comment for the double standards you mentioned.

It seems these days it's fine to lambaste a religious person for their beliefs, but not an atheist.

If Abbott's religion is relevant, so is Julia's atheism.

mikk,

'Abbotts beliefs have and will colour his whole attitude to policy. As we saw with the morning after pill. As we saw with his attitude to women'

As will Julia's.

You just happen to agree with Julia's world view more than Abbott's. runner happens to agree more with Abbott's. Neither is more valid.

While I am not a Christian let me be clear, those who are are nothing like runner for the most part.
Christianity is shrinking, say it is not so if you wish but apart from a very few Church's are near empty.
How many of us Christian or not can say we have not climbed out of the wrong bed.
How many Prime Ministers had more than one relationship.
The hatred towards Gillard is here to see.
She however has an election victory to help get over such as runner.
Sleeping her way to the top what a truly grubby remark!

Is this absolutely necessary? Is OLO really a platform for Victorian-era judgements about public figures?

How does this constitute 'sleeping her way to the top'? Who was the married man? Where is he now?

Yawn. Who cares?.

But, in the spirit of the forum. In my experience, people - men or women - who've got their way to the top on their backs become very quickly transparent in their abilities. People like that are detrimental to the business and the employees respect for the whole set up erodes. In the case of Gillard, quite obviously she is above or she wouldn't be PRIME MINISTER of the country.

Runner, I hope you get sued.