"I'm here to answer your questions. So there's two ways this interview can go, you can act like a jilted lover and we can do that for several minutes, or you can ask me any political questions you've got and we can start them. Rove is a good way of engaging with voters who - with the greatest respect Barrie - don't get up on this time on a Sunday morning and watch the political shows."

Occasionally having the radio tuned to ABC news pays off (well, more than usual)… Each morning they have an interview, often it is a pollie (i.e.: the PM).  Anyway, today this little gem slipped out of Howard’s mouth:

 
“If you don’t have a job, you can’t afford childcare!”

But Mr Abbott said the fact the ALP was willing to do a preference deal with the Greens - who he said were hostile to many things Christians thought important - should sound a "very cautionary note" to Christians who were considering voting Labor.

"Labor's enthusiasm to do a deal with the Greens I think calls into question (its) depth and sincerity in these areas," Mr Abbott said.

Mr Abbott - the Coalition's most prominent Christian - was speaking to The Age in response to the establishment of a website by The Australian Christian Lobby, which is targeting churchgoers in marginal seats.

He said the criteria the ACL used to assess the parties was up to it, but he pointed out that half the lower house Labor MPs "declined to take an oath on the Bible" after the last election.

"That's not necessarily the be all and end all, but nevertheless it does suggest to me . . . as a collective Labor politicians don't have the degree of Christian commitment (that Coalition politicians do)," he said.

Okay, I’m sure this is just one of those “hey, some wacky political personage thinks something stupid” article, but seriously…

 
“Just imagine the radical change that would occur if parents voted not just on their own behalf but on behalf of their children, what that would bring to democracy”

 
I’m yet to be convinced that most people deserve to vote, let alone giving people with kids extras.  I should come up with a good long reasoned argument, instead of just linking to the age and being angry... but words fail me.

This man can go fuck himself with something brittle, jagged and rusty.

1. China, Russia or India (and the rest of Asia) to do anything at the expense of 'catching up' with the rest of us


2. Africa give a flying fuck


3. Europe to actually get something done (meetings, amendments, sub-committees, sub-sub-committees, recommendations and general bureaucratic hell aside).


4. The US making a complete about-face and stop building new coal power plants... start taxing fuel, or even admit something is happening.

1. Traitor! KillKillBloooooodKill!


2. Jail maybe? Don't we have anti-mercenary laws or something? Whoa... what's with the hiding in Cuba so no 'basic human rights' apply?