Howard releases his Attack Dog
March 14th 2007 12:39
The Howard government is looking desperate and increasingly rattled by the performance of Kevin Rudd and its descent into the mire of dealing with Rudd’s personal life is a very risky strategy.
The use of chief government attack dog Tony Abbott does nothing to dispel any belief that this is an increasingly desperate tactic.
Abbott is know to the Australian public as one of the grubbier politicians around, one who is not adverse to using personal insults and rumour to attempt to smear the credibility of his opponent , though he has also been on the receiving end himself but more of a consequence or retaliation to his own attacks.
The Health Minister lead an attack on Rudd’s credibility today suggesting that Rudd was embellishing his life growing-up to make his life look harder then it actually was. This follows a report where the children of the man accused by Rudd of throwing his mother and her family of his property after Rudd’s father died have defended him and have said that he was prepared to let the Rudd’s stay.
His attack on Rudd’s credibility over his recollection as a ten year old of what lead to his mothers eviction is unbelievably shallow.
There would not be many people out there who have not in either family or friendship relationships be given interpretations of different disputes that did not concur with the interpretation of the other party.
Rudd was ten years old what his mother may have told him may not be as it happened but are we to hang Rudd out to dry for this and suggest he is not fit to hold office simply because he believes his family was thrown off the farm. Do not also forget that if the property owner did evict them he may well not have told his children what had happened out of embarrassment or shame. It is only one family’s word against another.
No one is disputing his father was not killed at the time and that the family did not move from the farm his father ran.
Abbott should be the last to attack someone for not knowing all the facts in family stories. It was Tony Abbott who for years thought he had an illegitimate son only to discover that it was not his. Are we to suggest this shows that Abbott is a bit to gullible to be a Minister or future Prime Minister?
Politicians must tread very carefully when heading down this path as the higher they raise the ethical and moral bar they might well find more of their own members not able to clear it.
“Journalists belong in the gutter because that is where the ruling classes throw their dirty secrets”
Gerald Priestland
The use of chief government attack dog Tony Abbott does nothing to dispel any belief that this is an increasingly desperate tactic.
Abbott is know to the Australian public as one of the grubbier politicians around, one who is not adverse to using personal insults and rumour to attempt to smear the credibility of his opponent , though he has also been on the receiving end himself but more of a consequence or retaliation to his own attacks.
The Health Minister lead an attack on Rudd’s credibility today suggesting that Rudd was embellishing his life growing-up to make his life look harder then it actually was. This follows a report where the children of the man accused by Rudd of throwing his mother and her family of his property after Rudd’s father died have defended him and have said that he was prepared to let the Rudd’s stay.
His attack on Rudd’s credibility over his recollection as a ten year old of what lead to his mothers eviction is unbelievably shallow.
There would not be many people out there who have not in either family or friendship relationships be given interpretations of different disputes that did not concur with the interpretation of the other party.
Rudd was ten years old what his mother may have told him may not be as it happened but are we to hang Rudd out to dry for this and suggest he is not fit to hold office simply because he believes his family was thrown off the farm. Do not also forget that if the property owner did evict them he may well not have told his children what had happened out of embarrassment or shame. It is only one family’s word against another.
No one is disputing his father was not killed at the time and that the family did not move from the farm his father ran.
Abbott should be the last to attack someone for not knowing all the facts in family stories. It was Tony Abbott who for years thought he had an illegitimate son only to discover that it was not his. Are we to suggest this shows that Abbott is a bit to gullible to be a Minister or future Prime Minister?
Politicians must tread very carefully when heading down this path as the higher they raise the ethical and moral bar they might well find more of their own members not able to clear it.
“Journalists belong in the gutter because that is where the ruling classes throw their dirty secrets”
Gerald Priestland
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