Posted by Sigismund on May 19, 2008, at 20:37:41
In reply to Re: Obama » Sigismund, posted by rskontos on May 19, 2008, at 18:17:11
For many Australians, schooled in the ways of Mr Howard, this statement acquired the status of a compliment.
For a decade one politician after another failed to gain any purchase on Mr Howard.
To see him so deftly and effortlessly dealt with was a visceral pleasure to savour again and again.It's too much, I know, to hope that our leaders might show by example that we are all in this together but Obama seems (from here) to offer the prospect of a break in a particularly negative political pattern.
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