<< Mr Bob Carr is one of Labors finest,…. >>

Agreed Belly.

<< …. a true living treasure he, no leg pulling is as good as Kevin Rudd >>

Holy snapping duck poo….he’d have to be at least four orders of magnitude better than that krudd character!!

<< The man with the hair, and not much under it Steven Smith. >>

What, you don’t like Stephen? Why not Belly?

I would have thought you’d consider him to be one of the best in the Labor ranks. Didn’t he do an admirable job as Foreign Minister before Rudd?

I wonder why he is not being considered for that role again.

Good question, Ludwig.

Stephen Smith seemed quite comfortable and adept in the role of Foreign Minister. And although he seems one of the more humble politicians, if anyone has ever watched him co-host the ABC's election coverage with Kerry O'Brien, you'd soon ascertain that he is an extremely astute political commentator, and therefore certainly not one "...with the hair, and not much under it...".

Some contributors, at times me too, should confront this truth.
Opinions, ours too, are often wrong.
Hasbeen you got it so very wrong, may be unaware but scraped the very bottom of the barrel with your Carr is the NSW problem type quote.
HE was in a way, AFTER HE LEFT my party fell to pieces!
Carr has no smear no smell to him from the Sussex Street lard heads, look to the man who had the senate seat he takes not this breath of fresh air.
Lexi Carr at one time was asked to go in to federal Parliament.
About the time of Crean/Latham/Gillards troika.
He is was and always will be a statesman.
Watch him carry out his roles,being as good as Rudd was in the role, keeping the leaking young turks under control and reminding all of a thought they forget party unity.
Sorry your view of Gillard is funny but if she stood for an election without opposition our next government would be INFORMAL.

Lexi says, I wonder if another cherished ambition of his might
be to be PM?

I guess we'll have to wait and see what develops next.

Now wouldn't that be a laugh!

To be honest, I think the only reason why he got the nod, was Julia flexing her muscles, as she was looking a bit 'puppet like' when big brother said no.

It will be interesting to see how they get along if he does start to eye off the top job, but he will have to hurry, as labor are headed for the scrap heap.

At least Julia and Anna Bligh will have something in common, they will both be tossed out after just one term.

Meanwhile, old Bob is looking like a fat kid in the candy store, but I wonder if he realizes there's work to be done, rather than just jet setting about.

Belly I think you are right in one way, as far as the Labor party are concerned he governed well. This means he stayed in power.

As far as the people of NSW are concerned he was a dead loss.

It is not enough just to stay in power, & let the unions loose. Government must do at least a little for the people. He was a back seat driver, & did not do that too well either.

Give the man a break. He hasn't even started the job yet
and already the knives are out.
How pathetic.