cods wrote on Mar 10
th, 2016 at 10:41am:
I havent a clue what you are ravin g about
Dsmithy70 wrote on Mar 10
th, 2016 at 10:23am:
I look forward to your proof of above
You have been following this story closely I see, have you read the book?
what book... you mentioned several?..
Dsmithy70 wrote on Mar 10
th, 2016 at 10:23am:
I haven't, but I have seen reviews from people that have, Abbott's & Credlin's supposed sex life actually equals about 2 & a half sentences by their reports.
Which begs the question, are we so debased that ANY innuendo amuses us plebs & therefore is the only thing focused on.
if you are talking about savvas book... no...but what I am talking about is whats been said on here....and most headlines....
I gather you have read her book....
on ly two lines... are they the two lines that tell us the names of the informers????.....
just wondering...]
I’m reading the book now, dear. Witnesses are all on the record.
Savva is not alleging an affair. She tells two stories about the intimacy between Abbott and Credlin: one, where he slaps her on the bottom and they have a giggle; two, the incident in the resturant, where Credlin feeds Abbott her food with her fork and rests her head on his shoulder.
The only mention of an affair is the Liberal senator, Connie Fierravanti-Wells, confronting Abbott with her concerns about the party’s perception. Abbott and Credlin are not coming out to defend rumours by Savva, but rumours from within their own party.
Having read this, I’m not in a position to know whether an affair took place at all. Savva says this too. Her book is not about an affair, but Abbott’s dependency on a woman who a majority of his party hated. Savva’s argument, shared by all the senior Liberal politicians she quotes, is that Abbott chose Credlin over the leadership. The backbenchers were clear after the first revolt: Credlin goes, or Abbott goes. Abbott told many of them he simply couldn’t do it. Abbott believed he couldn’t lead without Credlin.
And
this is Savva’s point. Rumours about an affair are irrelevant. Abbott couldn’t govern without Credlin managing almost everything. He couldn’t travel overseas without her, and he looked lost without Credlin by his side in meetings.
This isn’t evidence of Abbott cheating on his wife, it’s evidence that our former prime minister could not stand on his own two feet. Fair enough - no man is an island. Abbott, however, gave the role of governing not to an elected official, cabinet or committee, but to a staffer.
And not just any old staffer, but one who bullied and micro-managed Abbott’s own colleagues. She even bullied Abbott himself. For some unknown reason, he tolerated it.
Whether this is evidence of an affair or not is trivial. It’s evidence of the government - and our system of governing - being undermined by an unelected control-freak. More importantly, it’s evidence of the prime minister himself being too weak to stop it, and too arrogant to listen to his colleagues - those elected officials we did vote for.
This is far more important than whether Abbott and Credlin were having an affair. Whether Abbott f cked Credlin is superfluous. She f cked him.
And ultimately, they both f cked us all.
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