Australian Prime Minister - Wet Cry Baby?

[internetstalker]

Has anyone else noticed that Kevin Rudd seems to be coping pretty badly with the Victoria fires emotionally?

Just about every interview I've seen with him he's been lost for words and on more than one occasion on the verge of tears. Of course the bush fires are a terrible tragedy but get a fucking grip, Kev. You're the PM, not an old woman in Victoria who just lost her poodle. Grow a fucking backbone and deal with it. I'd be pretty pissed off if I were an Aussie and this spineless tit kept popping up to blub on TV. He's like a rabbit caught in the headlights of a fast approaching car. Even Bush managed to show personal strength when the towers came down with far greater loss of life than has been the case in Oz.

Some may say he's displaying empathy with the victims. Perhaps, but I see him as a snivelling lightweight schoolkid who's just had his bike nicked.

Who voted for this prick and why?

Waaaaaaaaaaannkeeeeeeeeer.

I thought it was good to see a politician wearing his heart on his sleeve TBH!

 

[internetstalker]

he's hardly front row material for the spartan phalanx is he.

pmsl!!

 

[Meltingpot]

Yep. Real bad news if they're your electorate.

Spy, I thought the Harold Bishop photocomparison was funny but don't forget even Bob Hawke cried on TV when he was accused of being involved in drug dealing.

I partly agree with you 'cos a leader has to show leadership as you say but at the same time I think the public (in the UK anyway) is tired of emotionless droids. In the long term I think he'll have done himself some good with this.

 

[Spymaster]

Spy, I thought the Harold Bishop photocomparison was funny but don't forget even Bob Hawke cried on TV when he was accused of being involved in drug dealing.

I partly agree with you 'cos a leader has to show leadership as you say but at the same time I think the public (in the UK anyway) is tired of emotionless droids. In the long term I think he'll have done himself some good with this.

You think?

I'm not so sure, good point on Hawke though, he used to turn on the water works pretty regularly didn't he? Again though, this brings me back to the fact that it's not just the crying that irks me but also his apparent shock and perceptible verbal paralysis in interviews. That didn't happen to Hawke or any other premier that I recall.

On the "emotionless droid" thing, I kind of agree but would prefer to see controlled, measured, useful emotion in politicians as opposed to what I perceived as Kev's lightweight "shitting your pants" performance. I'm certain I'm not alone.

 

[ViolentPanda]

Has anyone else noticed that Kevin Rudd seems to be coping pretty badly with the Victoria fires emotionally?

Just about every interview I've seen with him he's been lost for words and on more than one occasion on the verge of tears. Of course the bush fires are a terrible tragedy but get a fucking grip, Kev. You're the PM, not an old woman in Victoria who just lost her poodle. Grow a fucking backbone and deal with it. I'd be pretty pissed off if I were an Aussie and this spineless tit kept popping up to blub on TV. He's like a rabbit caught in the headlights of a fast approaching car. Even Bush managed to show personal strength when the towers came down with far greater loss of life than has been the case in Oz.

You're having a fucking bubble. Bush showed nothing of the sort (he looked like a startled deer when told at that school), and in fact he went missing for about 36 hours after the WTO collapsed, supposedly because of "secuirty considerations". Plenty of time for his advisors to coach him how to "show personal strength" (although if they did, they wasted their time. he still came across like a puppet).

Some may say he's displaying empathy with the victims. Perhaps, but I see him as a snivelling lightweight schoolkid who's just had his bike nicked.

That's because you've got plenty of experience in nicking bikes off of schoolkids though, isn't it?

Who voted for this prick and why?
A majority of the electorate of Australia voted for him, and they did so because he wasn't a whining cur of a lapdog to the US like his opponent was, doesn't want to dismantle the social security system like his opponent did, and actually sort of believes in the Aussie ideal of giving everyone a "fair go", whereas his opponent was more interested in helping out the corporate interests.

Waaaaaaaaaaannkeeeeeeeeer.

I'm sure Rudd speaks highly of you, too.

 

[ViolentPanda]

Wimps. No wonder we lost the empire.

As I recall, that was your mum's fault.

 

[Spymaster]

You're having a fucking bubble. Bush showed nothing of the sort (he looked like a startled deer when told at that school), and in fact he went missing for about 36 hours after the WTO collapsed, supposedly because of "secuirty considerations". Plenty of time for his advisors to coach him how to "show personal strength" (although if they did, they wasted their time. he still came across like a puppet).

I've no wish to big up the chimp but when he was told in the school of course he was startled, it had only just happened. These fires have been burning for weeks, where are Rudds advisors to "coach him on how to show personal strength"?

That's because you've got plenty of experience in nicking bikes off of schoolkids though, isn't it?

I usually go for the dinner money .

As I recall, that was your mum's fault.

As an Irish republican she'd have been mighty proud if it were .

RIP mum.

 

[Fruitloop]

One of the major reasons Rudd got in IMO was Howard's climate change denial. Australia has been suffering some crazy weather for the last four or five years and I think that the Australians decided that a PM who had his head in the sand over the whole issue as a means of sucking up to US neo-conservatism wasn't in their best interests.

 

[_angel_]

You think?

I'm not so sure, good point on Hawke though, he used to turn on the water works pretty regularly didn't he? Again though, this brings me back to the fact that it's not just the crying that irks me but also his apparent shock and perceptible verbal paralysis in interviews. That didn't happen to Hawke or any other premier that I recall.
On the "emotionless droid" thing, I kind of agree but would prefer to see controlled, measured, useful emotion in politicians as opposed to what I perceived as Kev's lightweight "shitting your pants" performance. I'm certain I'm not alone.

I think this proves he's more genuine than someone who can just turn the tears on and off for the camera.

I can't speak when I'm upset either.

Maybe for once they've got a politician who is not a calculated and practised liar. Maybe.

 

[ViolentPanda]

Fucking hippies.

Hmmm, that's two things you've said now that have made me think of yer mum.

 

[Spymaster]

I can't speak when I'm upset either.

I'll keep my fingers crossed in the hope that you never become Prime Minister then.

Hmmm, that's two things you've said now that have made me think of yer mum.

She was more into American GI's, iirc!

 

[jimadore]

Just because he shows some human emotion, as a P.M. he is weak? no it means he CARES' about his people. The queen has only ever in public cryed once, when her free luxury yacht was taken away. Never for any person or anything else.

 

[nino_savatte]

What about Bob Hawke? He cried live on telly.
http://www.newstatesman.com/199911220023

 

[Poi E]

One year on from the apology and they've extended the control systems in respect of Aborigines into Queensland. Bet he's not crying over that.

 

[Spymaster]

Nice bump, Jim.

I'd forgotten about Rudd the Dud .

Fuckin' wally!

 

[Poi E]

Worst offender for CO2 output per capita, aren't they?