Our Man in Afghanistan

[jack_ryder]

The story everyone but the ABC missed:

Tony Abbott actually wanted to go on missions with the troops in Afghanistan.

I knew he wanted to go back to the polls, but to force a by-election in Manly?

(this made me angry - the hooha about not visiting with the PM and "jet lag" I thought was a nonstory - it was up to Abbott to decide when he wanted to visit the troops - but to want to put them and himself actively at risk reveals that, as Guy Rundle pointed out in Crikey, he really is just a 16 year old boy.)

Comments

[capnoblivious.livejournal.com]

I'm finding it really difficult to follow politics at the moment. It's excruciating - the whole public discourse has degenerated to "I know you are but what am I?"

Gah.

(I blame Tony Abbott, obviously.)

[jack-ryder.livejournal.com]

I blame the handlers of both parties, but I think TA's being especially disingenuous.

I also blame the media for inflating non-issues (apparently the TA's a coward for not joining the PM in Afghanistan story originated from the SMH, not from the PM's office - but the PM's office didn't defuse the story by saying we knew of his travel plans all along... oh god, you're right it's just so depressing.)

[murasaki-1966.livejournal.com]

Let him go. If he gets shot, good riddance.

leas note: I am not normally this callous about human (or other forms of) life, but the Boy who cried Wolf! is trying my patience.

[totali-trashi1.livejournal.com]

it is a lot of silliness.
No stories like that should originate from the SMH, the journos should have some ethics. I didn't read any coward stuff anyway - it was about jet lag, what I saw.
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