Comments on: Howard's back! II

By: terangeree

terangeree — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 13:38:46 +0000

But it’s Blair House for Zokor, Mrs Zokor, and entourage. At the Australian taxpayer’s expense, of course.

By: DesLivres

DesLivres — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 12:05:41 +0000

My view of JH is the same as Lovell@55′s.

Having said that, unpleasant as they are, they are only 2 people, and Blair House has 119 rooms. How come there wasn’t room for another 4 people?

By: terangeree

terangeree — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 11:55:38 +0000

According to the website Agmates Rural News, Australa's favorite zokor is advising Barney Joyce to move to the House of Reps.

By: danny

danny — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 23:48:14 +0000

I'm with Dazza @62: going into baghdad streets would be way safer than getting between Hyacinth and the chance to be on the receiving end of some old fashioned new-idea-type Pomp and Circumstance: 119 rooms, that's what I call a doll's house to play dress ups in. David Rowe gave us a puzzling and disturbing image of what the PM's have to deal with.

By: Paul Burns

Paul Burns — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 04:29:07 +0000

I can, boo. Its a reflex lie. He’s done it so many times that he probably no longer realises he’s doing it.

By: boo

boo — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 02:07:31 +0000

I cannot believe that he & his are still trotting out the “nobody told John” defence – too funny (at least it is now that he’s out of office).

By: Paul Burns

Paul Burns — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 01:16:49 +0000

Oh, yes, I readily admit all that, joe2. OMG, I’m getting nasty shivers up the spine the way one does when one hears creeaking chalk on a blackboard just thinking about the little turd.

By: terangeree

terangeree — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 23:36:44 +0000

Kingsley tap-danced the following upon the board of keys:

So we have a situation where Howard was properly offered accomodation at Blair House then the Obama’s request to move in weeks earlier than normal and its apparently all John Howard’s fault.

Old chap, did you miss Shaun's link? Here is the relevant part of the interview for you:

CARLSON: Well, I reported, but also the “Washington Post” reported on December 11th and 12th that there were no foreign dignitaries booked into Blair House during that period of time.

JWH was, apparently, the third on the list, after Blair House was offered to the other two recipients of the medal -- Tony Blair and Alvaro Uribe. Blair is staying at the British Embassy, and Uribe also declined the offer of Blair House. Uribe's political history is, to say the least, , interesting, with explicit links to an organization which the US State Department classes as a foreign terrorist group (they're number 42 on the list). But as I'm beginning to ride off on a tangent, I'll stop at that.

By: joe2

joe2 — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 21:34:22 +0000

“Fair go. Les Patterson is funny.”

True, Paul, but you have to admit that Howard is further developing the role of an excruciatingly embarrassing ambassador who splutters, sucks up and over-indulges. While its not funny, for the reasons Ken nails so well, he is certainly giving old Les a run for his money in the current cringeworthy stakes. Though Dolly is still in with an outside chance.

By: Paul Burns

Paul Burns — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 09:27:42 +0000

Ken Lovell @ 55,
Couldn’t agree more.

Kingsley,
One of the reasons I like calling Howard Ratty is because it annoys RWDBs. To the point that when I called him that in a letter to the local paper some time ago one of Armidale’s better known RWDBs publicly remonstrated with me about it in the Armidale Mall. Now that’s what I call a successful agitation. My only objection to the term is it sometimes obscures all the disgusting things Howard did while PM.