"No one is the suppository of all wisdom". Certainly not you Mr Abbott!

[i-need-a-martini]

This is what he said yesterday to a group of Liberal supporters (well who else). What a prime time goose.

And what a bunch of geese we will look when he represents us internationally.

“No one,” Tony Abbott told a Melbourne gathering of Liberal Party faithful, “however smart, however well-educated, however experienced … is the suppository of all wisdom”.

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/federal-election-2013/liberals-squirm-as-abbott-refers-to-the...

[cherry*135]

But wait there is more...

August 12

Liberals squirm as Abbott refers to 'the suppository of wisdom'

The Opposition Leader's travelling mentor, Philip Ruddock, squirmed and the Victorian MP Josh Frydenberg took a few seconds to register what his leader had said.

“Suppository?” Mr Frydenberg mouthed to a grey-haired man standing next to him. The man nodded gravely, perhaps recognising that Mr Abbott intended to say repository, a place where things are stored.

At the press conference, Mr Abbott was asked about

the latest opinion polls (answer: he doesn't worry about polls, only the Australian people);

claims that Kevin Rudd cheated by using notes in Sunday night's debate (answer: he's more worried about what the Prime Minister said than what he did);

and whether he had any data to support his assertion that the economy would always be better under the Coalition (answer: not so much).

“I would like to think that should we win the election, I will be known as an infrastructure prime minister,” Mr Abbott said.

smh.com.au

[twinkles**stars]

More? Where? You are just repeating what WE already know.

[icyfroth]

repeating what's already known IS the suppository of all wisdom

[cherry*135]

Tony's gaffe isn't going to be forgotten about in tomorrow's news  in Australia or world wide it appears.

As I posted before, this wasn't an everyday speech gaffe by anyone, this guy wants to be the next Prime Minster of Australia, the election for which is being held in a few weeks time.

Tuesday 13 August

Suppository gaffe makes Tony Abbott the butt of the world's jokes

A memorable blunder from Down Under, but not how a politician would have wanted to make his entrance on international stage

There have been numerous moments of late when the day-to-day workings of Australian politics filter on to the world's news agenda; think Julia Gillard's misogyny speech; the leadership spill that never was; and then the spill that was. But never has the opposition leader Tony Abbott been the protagonist. That was until Monday.

As Abbott stood among the Liberal party faithful in Melbourne, glancing from side to side and surveying those loyally assembled, he let rip with a malapropism to rival even those of the infamously tongue-tied former US president George W Bush.

"No one," said Abbott, "however smart, however well-educated, however experienced … is the suppository of all wisdom."

It was meant as a humble, man-of-the-people moment from the Rhodes scholar, who was making a dig at the prime minister, Kevin Rudd. Instead he became a global figure of ridicule.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/13/tony-abbott-gaffe-world-stage

[icyfroth]

insert image lol

[cherry*135]

[freakiness]

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@twinkles**stars wrote:

Misty am*3 🙂 there are as many mistakes made by Mr Rudd as by Mr Abbott. There are no winners no matter how hard you try.

Now please stay on topic (tongue in cheek)

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It's not that he made a gaffe that's making the news, it's the nature of the gaffe.  

Whoever said suppository instead of repository would have got the same treatment. 

It's satirist gold.

[not_an_eloi]

flamin' funny, as the camera got abbott utterin' these words, to 'is rear, right behind 'im, was a poster of the smilin' candidate, with the letters 'SUK' clearly visible   

[i-need-a-martini]

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@icyfroth wrote:

Oh dear.

If a slip of the tongue is the only point you focussed on in Sunday night's Rudd vs Abbott debate, it's no wonder you're not getting the bigger picture.

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Oh dear.

If only you had focussed on the what he was saying at the debate you would know that this gaffe was not part of that debate.

I only noticed because I have been seeing the bigger picture.

[i-need-a-martini]

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@twinkles**stars wrote:

Certainly a silly slip of the tongue....but we all do it

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Yes we all do it. But "all" of us haven't been trained to talk in public. Nor do we all have (apparently) the level of intelligence this moron has.

And if only this was his sole slip of the tongue then perhaps (PERHAPS) he could be forgiven. But he continually says stupid things.

Anyone heard of Berlusconi?