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?

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.

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.

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.

I don’t blame John Howard at all for this. We all know Janette would spank him if he tried to move to a common hotel.

Ditto.

So you implied that it was only the left that do that.

Keep it up Kingsley. If you achieve nothing else you’re posts have been making me laugh.

Interesting that Mark has posts up on Gaza wishing both sides would see reason and plenty of people quite reasonably agreeing with him and yet we have this sort of mentality in relation to Howard and Bush at the same place.

To repeat a well known saying, Kingsley:

You’re either with us or against us.

http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/1004502/latest-from-wire/

mention that the Obamas indeed have requested an EARLY acomodation at Blair House.

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. It’s apparently even a conspiracy by Bush to insult Obama.
This is exactly what I mean some of you who are by and large pretty calm and collected ordinarily succumb to this sort of thinking whenever it involves Bush or Haward.

Some of you pointed out some nasty things get said about rudd at Tim Blairs. I’m sure sometimes they do, so what. How does that constitute licence to smear Howard?

Interesting that Mark has posts up on Gaza wishing both sides would see reason and plenty of people quite reasonably agreeing with him and yet we have this sort of mentality in relation to Howard and Bush at the same place.

Howard led the liberation of the E Timorese.

So, what exactly do you think Xanana Gusmao did in 1999? Sell choc-ices on the beach at Dili?

“Mr Howard has stressed that he is staying there for just one night.”

Even more reason, I would have thought, why he would (indeed should) have offered to move to a hotel when he became aware of it. The fact that he hasn’t…

My contempt is for the man and his motives, not his political decisions.

Fair go. Les Patterson is funny.