Tony 'chameleon' Abbott so far .. has Abbott really lost his spots? .. lol, if no many will come to regret their vote .. early this morning about 8 hours ago before zzzzs i reread his polish (2 back) ..
images of athletic and aggressive Putin .. of GWB cock-a-doodle cowboy arms .. memories of Romney 'can't remember' that bully incident .. lol .. don't think i watched all the videos the first time .. look at this bullshit headline on a bumfuzz article from one of Murdoch's Limbaugh-like Aussi men ..
Abbott closet is skeleton-free
----- Piers has been one of The Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph's best-read columnists since 1993. One of the nation's most respected journalists he has worked in New York, London, Washington and Los Angeles. -----
Piers Akerman – Sunday, September 08, 2013 (9:00am)
COAST to coast, the nation is justifiably looking to Prime Minister-elect Tony Abbott to restore the confidence and stability sapped after six years of Labor mismanagement and economic vandalism.
Putting aside the train wreck that will be exposed when Treasury reveals the true state of the finances, all indicators are that Abbott is the man to rebuild what Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard destroyed.
The record shows Abbott is a team player who was promoted to captain by his peers and who now enjoys the support of his crew, whereas Rudd plotted and white-anted his way to the top and was never trusted by significant sections of the party he led.
Abbott’s biographers will find that, despite his degrees in law and economics, his years at Oxford on a Rhodes scholarship, and his years in a seminary, he has never aspired to be anything other than decent.
When he made his maiden speech to Parliament on May 31, 1994, Abbott began: “On the corner of Castlereagh and Hunter streets in Sydney stands a monument to mark the site of the first Christian service in Australia. The preacher, the Reverend Richard Johnson, took as his text: ‘’What shall I render unto the Lord for all his benefits towards me?
“It is just a small stone obelisk hardly noticed by the thousands of passers-by and dwarfed by skyscrapers, yet its message of faith and hope is fundamental to our nation’s success and the key to Australia’s future.
“The congregation at that first service was poorer, sicker, and less trained than any conceivable group of modern Australians, yet there was nothing small about what they were to achieve. Our challenge, 200 years later, is to have hearts that are just as big. So at this opening of my time in parliament, I place on record my deep conviction that, nourished by the past and inspired by our great ideals, there is no limit to what Australia can achieve. Also, I want to record my deep conviction that our Australian story should fill our hearts with pride and our eyes with tears.
“It is a story of the dispossessed and the outcast, redeemed through the innate goodness of humanity - a society challenged by nature, tested by war, enlarged by other cultures and blessed by such peace, prosperity and tolerance that we are now the envy of the Earth.”
When Rudd made his maiden speech four years later, on November 11, 1998, he said bluntly: “Politics is about power.”
There has long been a question mark hanging over Rudd’s character, going back to his days as former Queensland Labor premier Wayne Goss’s sinister political apparatchik.
The wider nation didn’t really get an insight into the dark side of his nature until he started to dissemble about his meetings and telephone conversations with disgraced former West Australian premier Brian Burke in early 2007.
Then his oft-repeated claim that, upon his father’s death, his widowed mother and his siblings were evicted from their home on a share-farm property was shown to be deeply suspect.
Surviving members of the family of Aubrey Low (the farmer who owned the property) were able to show that the Rudds were allowed to remain on the property for six months after Rudd Sr’s death. Rudd threw the switch to ugly, and threats were made to author and veteran Canberra journalist Kerry-Anne Walsh. Rudd called the editors of the two Fairfax Sunday newspapers in an attempt to dissuade them from publishing the article.
Only The Sunday Age, a pathetic excuse for a metropolitan newspaper, killed the story.
Fittingly, only The Age endorsed a return of the Rudd government last week.
Despite the relentless smear campaign which began from the moment he was elected Opposition Leader, Abbott comes to office without any skeletons rattling in his closet.
He is neither a bully nor a thug, contrary to the baseless stories peddled by Labor lickspittles in the media pack.
He is a man of values and principles, a family man with a loving wife and daughters, a man with mates across the spectrum, mates who may not parade themselves in the public eye for PR purposes but who know the special value of true friendship.
Former Coalition prime minister John Howard last week introduced Abbott at a fundraiser saying: “I know Tony Abbott, Tony Abbott is a friend of mine, and I can tell you Tony Abbott won’t let Australia down.”
Coming from the man who restored the nation’s fortunes after Labor squandered them, that should say it all.
.. full of bullshit and lies Akerman even looks like Limbaugh .. Murdoch and Abbott won .. wish Abbott has really changed, but doubt it .. i hope Australia doesn't have good and real reason to regret the result ..
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