It's telling that people are looking back nostalgically at the good old days when we had PM's we could respect, like Julia Gillard, and John Howard and Bob Hawke.

Even Rudd earned some respect with the apology and his image of being a super-nerd. All Tony can do is ride a bike, and scare people.

It will be interesting to see how Tony gets on with Obama. The usual form is our PM goes to visit the US and becomes best mates with the President. Howard and Bush because of their shared conservatism. Rudd and Obama because of Rudd's ostentatious intellect. Gillard and Obama because they were both the "first".

shi thouse said..

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^Yeh whatever...forgot the American presidents have been so perfect.

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That's irrelevant. The usual diplomatic form is "Youse are our best mate eva!" Now we have a PM who is a known knob, and is politically the polar opposite to Obama. Will they just give him a polite welcome? Or will we get the "best mate" thing again? Or something else?

Gorgo said..
It's telling that people are looking back nostalgically at the good old days when we had PM's we could respect, like Julia Gillard...........

hahahhahah yeah OK