Should be worse now shouldn't it?
Mr Shorten leads Mr Abbott 58.5 per cent to 41.5 per cent as preferred prime minister and I am not convinced Shorten would make a better leader. What would happen if Labor got themselves a great leader?
Tony Abbott is less popular than Julia Gillard was in the days before she was dumped in favour of Kevin Rudd before last year's election.
And in that election Rudd lost, Gillard lost, the ALP lost and Abbott became PM
What is this, a Sunday catharsis service blended with a touch of year old feel-good? Perhaps even just a "stir the pot" with some yummy pink stew !
Oh gosh DY "your poll" just happens to be the first poll after "that" budget was announced, wherein the hand-feeding of the.flocks was seen to be in jeopardy. If one feels like some less than a year old polls choose from HERE.
"Julia Gillard has some advice for Hillary Clinton if she becomes the United States’ first female president — call out any sexism early."
I think Poor Me giving advice to Clinton (via a public forum) is somewhat of an egg sucking exercise as Clinton (H) has survived in the Washington/Beltway jungle for many years without reverting to gender whimping, and with the announcement of her running as a presidential hopeful these are a few examples of some comments directed at her:
- A Republican strategist has said "I don't need her to drawn me in oestrogen every time she opens her month"
- A leading pundit said Clinton was "too ugly" to be President and called her a "damned bimbo"
- A New York Times op-ed accused her of "basking in oestrogen" after discussing granddaughter's birth during campaigning
- One of Donald Trump's staffers retweeted a message alleging that Clinton "can't satisfy her husband"
I think Poor Me could well have done with some (a lot) "toughen up" advice from Clinton, that is of course if the men who put Gillard in, and then removed her. would allow it !
Mr Shorten leads Mr Abbott 58.5 per cent to 41.5 per cent as preferred prime minister
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"Are you seriously suggesting that comments such as those should go unchallenged? Because if you are, then you clearly have a serious problem with women and it's time someone called you out on it."
TGSE, these comments have been (and should be) challenged. As for your interpretation of my comments, I was under the impression that you were a long time reader of posts here, and also not prone to making such out of touch statements, but it did earn a Kudos !.
So allow me to simplify this past comment of mine :
"I think Poor Me giving advice to Clinton (via a public forum) is somewhat of an egg sucking exercise as Clinton (H) has survived in the Washington/Beltway jungle for many years without reverting to gender whimping......"
Clinton (H) has suffered many verbal slings and arrows within the US political jungle and has the fortitude and intelligence to handle them without "gender whimping" which is why I refer to Gillard as Poor Me.
I would point out that I have in the past (you might have overlooked ?) mentioned some female leaders that I hold in esteem e.g. :
I guess she never studied international political history, because a Merkel, Clinton, Yellen, Thatcher, Rouseff, Bhutto she could never have been in a fit, with her "constant" references to perceived sexism and misogyny.
Poor Me is actually not a "cheap insult" but a cheap fact. I wonder if people like Merkle, Thatcher, Clinton (H), Bhutto (B) bemoaned what the "boys" said or called them?
I will remember her as the Poor Me member for Lalor who has said: "she hoped she had paved the way for future female holders of the office." Some hope, I think the ALP will think very hard (and the Libs) before considering a female as a PM, unless they are from the same strain as Merkel, Thatcher, Clinton, Rice, Bhutto etc, and have the same intestinal fortitude as these women, something which Gillard certainly lacked.
You can now accuse me of "insulting" Clinton(H) et al, by comparing them against Poor Me. You would be correct.
