I do remember that one and I also noticed at the time a bunch of replays of other times Abbott had used similar phrasing. I didn't take it as a play on Jones comments and I think it's a pretty big stretch to do so.

It would have been smarter to avoid the phrase for a while but I don't have the impression that Abbott is a great orator.

R0bert

Abbott is at his best in oratory when he is not saying anything.

Yes csteele it was a disgraceful piece of opportunism to use her
father's death to beat Abbott over the head.
It was effective, as can be seen by the fact that we are still talking
about it here. You made a false interpretation of what Abbott said.
Anyone who takes the same attitude as yourself is just as guilty as Julia Gillard !

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.

Well we seem to have a smorgasbord of excuses the obviously morally bankrupt, including OTB, are giving Abbott a free pass over his reprehensible statements.

They can probably be summarised as either delusion, denial, deceit or deflection.

Even Alan Jones was able to recognise the statement from Abbott as 'unfortunate' and when that smarmy piece of work is capable of something this lot appear totally incapable of I think it tells the rest of us just what level they inhabit.

Abbott had used the phrase three times before in parliament but only singly on each occasion. This time he used it four times in the one sentence reading from a prepared script and eye-balling the PM to deliver directly the line “died of shame”. For anyone to accept Abbott's excuse that this was not a premeditated attack because he had 'forgotten' the Alan Jones incident less than two weeks earlier would make them delusional.

For anyone to think this man is incapable of such a low act is living in denial particularly about his past record which reveals a man prepared to do anything to gain power.

But to deflect the blame away from Abbott toward the PM with deceitful and disgraceful statements like “It would take a ruthless, self-obsessed feminist to use the recent bereavement of a father to king hit her opponent” and “disgraceful piece of opportunism to use her father's death to beat Abbott over the head.” puts OTB and Bazz on a par with the worst of the bottom feeders who inhabit the fringes of the Liberal Party. What makes people capable of such spite, such hatred, and such vile and incomprehensible partisanship? How do they explain their actions to their children? Are they capable of reflecting on just how dreadful those comments are? Probably not.

Now we wait for the insipid attempts at humour or the tepid attempts at justification.

May God indeed have mercy on what is left of their souls.

csteele,

With all of that feigned indignation and moral outrage you should be a member of Actors' Equity. Just go back to your allegations, for which you couldn't even give a quote when asked. See here,

csteele, Thursday, 21 February 2013 4:59:16 PM
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