mellie wrote on Aug 18^th, 2010 at 9:26pm:


Seriously, I have had a prick of a day, but I thought you would appreciate, "politician" as a negative description of someone, with all it's implied shallowness and dishonesty.
I sincerely wish that we could use the word politician without those negative traits coming first to mind, but I doubt I shall ever live to see it change.

The disingenuous way that people praise politicians from a Party they prefer by mere fact of the being a member of that Party is something I do not get.

I have liked some Lib pollies, like the OLD Cheney, Costello, Hockey, and my local member is also a nice guy I have respect for, and I have had Labor pollies I disliked, a lot, like Hawke, Latham, Cairns, Grassby, etc, in fact I could go on to name more Labor pollies I disliked than Liberals if I thought about it, because of the sense of betrayal you feel when you give support to someone who then does the wrong thing.

So while I may not be emamoured with Gillard, I do not dislike her, but Abbott has long been near the top of my list of loathsome characters from the far right, and the distaste for his ideals is right up there with my distaste of extremist commentators like Alan Jones or Piers Ackerman, and frankly the thought of such a man leading our country makes me feel sick just thinking about it, as we could hardly do worse if we tried.

I'm not a fan of Hockey, he's a bit of a pink puffer, needs to lift his game ...he has the math right, just needs to deliver it more assertively. He's frank, and clearly won the debate on Sunrise this morning....he just has to sustain this now.

...Or perhaps i'm just still hoping Costello will come back...I miss question-time with Costello, the man's so switched on. A true sparky.

Wayne Swan: Slippery-jack/Weasel, needs to brush his teeth and bathe more regularly..(I bet he smells), needs to stop telling lies...this and needs to understand what he's been programmed to say, because he lacks the capacity to understand his own budget.
Hockey:  Pink puffer, has the grunt, I have no doubt he knows what he's talking about, but requires charisma. He's a bull in a china shop.
Julia Gillard: Went From Angela Anaconda to Madusa overnight.
Tony Abbott: Leader, Iron Man, loyalist,  family man, though too polite, (requires more fire) and his respect for woman is evident by the way he is particularly soft on Gillard, he needs to stop treating her like a woman, this is not any ordinary woman, it's probably casting spells on him as we speak. Hide your hair brush Tony.

Gillards own parents are in a nursning home, I don't think she's a family person and her sisters opinion of her is rather sketchy albeit interesting. I sense she's had a dysfunctional upbringing, this and doesn't really have much regard for her own parents.  Nursing homes are for people who's kids don't care about them, a retirement village is different, but a nursing home is ...well, not very nice... I get the impression Gillard is a little ashamed of her hereditary, her background, perhaps she's played those people to say they are related to her or something?

Sorry, too many words I know

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Wrong Mel. Sometimes nursing homes are the last and only resort for sick parents.

mantra wrote on Aug 18^th, 2010 at 10:59pm:


Julias parents did not look nursing-home ready to me, or my mother, and my mother manages a community aged care  and disability support service.

Neither of them looked like nursing home material to me.

Just looked like neither of their girls could be azzed.

My parents give me the pips sometimes Mantra, but I'd be damned if I would send them to gods waiting room, until it was absolutely time...palliative care more than likely, and only then to make sure they were comfortable in the last few weeks.

They aren't a close family, I can tell you this now.

There's something wierd about the arrangement, the whole family, both sides, her and her boyfriend are not quite right.i

MOIRA GILLARD, MOTHER: Quote:


Private? Hardly!

Well instead of Kirribilli, she got a nursing home Mantra~

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Clearly, her own sister sees through her false persona...

Refer to the Gillard diaries transcript..

http://www.abc.net.au/austory/content/2006/s1586140.htm

mantra wrote on Aug 18^th, 2010 at 11:29pm:


Trivial?

Family matters Mantra, though the trouble is, I don't think  Gillard is of this view-point. She lacks a sense of ...I dunno,  just cant warm to her, she's cold.

I have no doubt Gillard has a fantastic work ethic, though I think her moral fibre, her personal character is so machined by labors power-brokers, her visage lacks essence.

And I can tell you now, once they are finished with her Mantra, they will eat her alive. You know it, and I know it.

She doesn't have others who depend on her the way Latham did,(he had no choice but to hold it together as best he could)... I can see her going to pieces if they ditch her, which I think Shorten will after the election when she's served her purpose, if she doesn't willingly step-down herself as per arrangement.

She's using Obamas policies, playing someone else's hand...somethings not right here Mantra, watch and mark my words.

I'm sure about this.

It's more than a hunch, I'm bloody certain of it.

She is not who she says she is.

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