Quote:If Australians want to discuss this or anything else why does anyone feel that they have the right to try to stop them ?

Exactly, discussing Abbott's daughters on the campaign trail with him. That doesn't mean opposing views that conflict with the person who first mentioned it in this thread cant be put forward...especially ones that don' t involve personal insults about the PM.

Even his daughters were embarrassed by that comment weren't they pepe?

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@izabsmiling wrote:

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@am*3 wrote:
I though you were worried about voters..not many in France eligible to vote in Aust elections.

We could publish some not nice things about the French president and his mistress... but that wouldn't achieve anything either. The French don't care about their Presidents affairs.

Is there some father/daughter angst here that runs deeper than election campaigns?

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not relevant at all ...though lets just say that I have had a bit of experience with men and women with NPD 

everyone else is just something to be used for their own enjoyment 

 

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interesting mention of the French, i do remember a thread on here doing exactly that. People say all the time that they aren't influenced by advertising, yet clearly people are influenced, that's why advertising is such a profitable industry. Abbrott clearly used his family as a prop to help convince female voters that he "understood women" - that can be denied ad infinitum - doesn't mean a thing, the proof was in the election campaign for all to see.

That is a first then! 🙂

Not everyone is influenced by advt. a lot of younger people don't watch free to air TV, don't listen to the radio, don't read newspapers.. Usual places where you get bombarded with ads.

Yes there was a thread here a out the French president and his mistress..nothing to do with influencing Aust voters though.

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@am*3 wrote:
Quote:If Australians want to discuss this or anything else why does anyone feel that they have the right to try to stop them ?

Exactly, discussing Abbott's daughters on the campaign trail with him. That doesn't mean opposing views that conflict with the person who first mentioned it in this thread cant be put forward...especially ones that don' t involve personal insults about the PM.

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I disagree with your thinking that personal insults/ posters opinions about our elected Goverrnment

are less appropriate in a political thread  than personal insults to other ebay members/groups of members .

 

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@am*3 wrote:
Not everyone is influenced by advt. a lot of younger people don't watch free to air TV, don't listen to the radio, don't read newspapers.. Usual places where you get bombarded with ads.

Yes there was a thread here a out the French president and his mistress..nothing to do with influencing Aust voters though.

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but how many of those "younger people" go online, plenty of advertising there, magazines etc, or are they Amish. Just because people aren't always aware that they have been influenced, doesn't mean they haven't. I made no mention of the thread re: French politician influencing australian voters, just pointing out that some did comment on that politicians private life.

What have tony Abbott's daughters got to do with a fantastic speech by Ludlam? Stay on topic please, it's confusing.

So far, the Ludlam speech is second in popularity only to Julia Gillard's misogyny speech 🙂 I found it inspiring and powerful.

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@izabsmiling wrote:

Icyfroth wrote: 

Fit what?

 

The PM's daughters helping him win an election? No way, and I think it's disgusting to imply that, frankly.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

If you find it disgusting to imply it ..do you not  find the fact that that is what was done disgusting ?

 

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Whaaaa...? Why would I find it disgusting that Mr Abbotts daughters helped him in the campaign trail leading up to the election? I certainly don't see it as exploitation, so therefore, no it doesn't disgust me. Wives/husbands and children of presidential or ministerial aspirants lend support in election campaigns all the time.

 

What disgusts me is your implication that Mr Abbott "pimped" his daughters which further implies they prostituted themselves to get their father into the top job. That is a slur on the character of 3 innocent young women I frankly find despicable. Misogynistic, in fact. Gormless, actually.

 

It wasn't his daughters that got Mr Abbott the job after all, it was his stop the boats and reverse the carbon tax promises that got him in. That and his gormless predecessors.