csteels, your attempt to shield yourself by attacking onthebeach and
myself, is pathetic.
You did not even quote Abbott yet you seemed to have the video.

No, just as you decided to select the worse intentions for Abbott, you
decided to select the best intention for Gillard.

Dear OTB and Bazz,

Very few people would have the temerity or pathological blind partisanship to twist this into something that was the Prime Minister's fault.

You two have attempted to do just that. It is far less a case of me attacking you than you two standing completely and utterly condemned by your own words.

Further you seem incapable of telling me if you would ever bait anyone, even your worst enemy, with the death of their parent. Perhaps it is as inconceivable to you as it is me, if so there is hope for the both of you. However the man you are so hell bent on defending had no such scruples. Most of Australia recognised what he did but seeing it mixed with the current toxic atmosphere in Canberra many have let it slide.

I don't think we can afford to do that. He is not a Wilson Tuckey or a Bill Heffernan but potentially our future Prime Minister. What he did was unforgivable and if people really thought about it should forever disqualify him as our leader.

csteele,

"Very few people would have the temerity or pathological blind partisanship to twist this into something that was the Prime Minister's fault."

Right on the button!

Abbott is man-shaped representation of scintillating mediocrity.

After I'd pointed out that there is a certain percentage of the population who'd support the ALP no matter what, Csteele then decided that that must mean that I support Abbott's attack on JG via her daddy.

Now somewhere in the dark recesses of Csteele's mind, that segue makes logical sense. But in the grown-up...not so much.

Of coarse, Abbott didn't mention the JG father. He simply used a phrase that he'd used often before but which had taken on some notoriety because someone else (Jones) had used a similar phrase in an entirely different context earlier. It was a linking of events born out of the desperation of those with an agenda.

It was blind partisanship at its ugliest. The Csteele's of this world will vote ALP under any and all circumstances. But they need, for their own self-esteem, an excuse to give that decision a veneer of respectability.

mhaze,

You have to admit that it takes a certain amount of inanity (dumbness) to employ the controversial phrase of the moment (even if you have habitually used it on other occasions).

Abbott used it in a puerile manner to provoke the Prime Minister - keeping in line with his artless style.

<Abbott used it in a puerile manner to provoke the Prime Minister - keeping in line with his artless style>

You are mind reading and using your own prejudicial attitudes towards Abbott to interpret his meaning. Please go back to my quote of what both Abbott an Gillard said and identify the words that support your opinion. See here;

onthebeach, Thursday, 21 February 2013 5:44:24 PM
http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?discussion=5635&page=8

There is no doubt whatsoever. It is there in black and white that Abbott referred generally to government as he has done in the past. Gillard introduced her father and shamelessly used his death to sledge Abbott.

I say again and the evidence is there in the quote, it would take a ruthless, self-obsessed feminist to use the recent bereavement of a father to king hit her opponent. Not a good look at all. Gillard is a damned liar and she is an embarrassment to all all past Prime Ministers and to the federal parliament.