Howard begs Australians for another term

[Robbien]

Source: Monsters & Critics

Sydney - Prime Minister John Howard begged Australians Thursday to change their minds and vote in his government for a fifth term at Saturday's parliamentary election, charging that Labor rival Kevin Rudd lacked substance and would blight the booming economy.

Howard's Liberal-led coalition (the conservative party) has trailed in all of the more than 100 opinion polls conducted since Rudd became Labor leader in December. Labor promises to continue almost all of Howard's policies in a me-too ploy that has worked wonders for its electoral prospects.

. . .

With two campaigning days left, the Liberals were caught distributing bogus campaign leaflets encouraging Muslims to vote Labor because it was soft on terrorism.

Howard, 68, was swift with condemnation, saying, 'This is no part of my campaign. It's no part of the Liberal Party's campaign. I don't want anything to do with it.'

Liberal Party members caught with the leaflets in a Sydney suburb where applications are in to build an Islamic school claimed the leaflets were a 'joke.' They will be investigated by the Australian Electoral Commission.

Read more: http://news.monstersandcritics.com/asiapacific/news/article_1375508.php/Howard_begs_Australians_for_another_term

[rodeodance]

1. goad, i hope the Aussies vote him out.

[Hand]

2. Aussies to Howard:

One hopes!

[Andrushka]

6. Or, as we would say in Aus:

BLOW IT OUT YA ARSE, JOHNNY!

[Cha]

12. Ya

Filthy Arse, john howard.

Fookin' bushdog.

[Judi Lynn]

3. I don't see any right-wingers sticking their heads into this thread to bitch & shriek about a FIFTH

TERM for this clown who has spent the last few years as _Bush's volunteer puppet, helping to prop up an evil administration.

Why is that? Doesn't it show Howard is a DICTATOR, seeking yet the dreaded FIFTH TERM?

Why is it right-wing leaders get pass and a pat on the butt from right-wing Americans and a call to arms against leftists seeking the same opportunities? How does a FIFTH TERM not prove he's a dictator, yet prove to the howlers among us that Hugo Chavez intends to take over the world?

[Andrushka]

7. Indeed, Judi

The hypocrisy of it all, eh?

:pals:

[David__77]

16. I know it huh...

Well it'll likely get a lot worse in the days ahead.

[KamaAina]

4. There's got to be an opening for him at the White House

to tide him over the next year or so, anyway...

With two campaigning days left, the Liberals were caught distributing bogus campaign leaflets encouraging Muslims to vote Labor because it was soft on terrorism.

Say, what's Turd Blossom up to these days? Could he use a henchman? :eyes:

[anitar1]

10. Word is out that T Blossom has been hired

by Newsweek. Saw it here on DU yesterday.

[KamaAina]

11. Oh that's right. Excuse me while I

:puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke:

It doesn't help matters that they tried to balance it out by taking on Markos from Daily Kos, either.

Poor Mr Howard. KKKarl won't be needing any thugs now that he's an A-list journalist. :sarcasm:

[Cha]

13. Glad they caught!

Stupid sneaks.

[Zorra]

5. He should be begging them at the Hague along with Chimpy, Shooter, and

the Poodle.

[pretzel4gore]

8. they're all murderers....mass murderers...

the pigmedia makes their crimes look normal, but ....jeesus christ we sent men to the moon 2 generations ago- can't we lance a boil?
"contempt is to the contemptable what air is to birds, or the sea to fishes"
William Blake once noted....

[DBoon]

9. John Howard is to Bush

as Marshal Petain was to Hitler

[cal04]

14. Last figures show Howard needs a miracle

JOHN HOWARD faces annihilation in tomorrow's election, with Labor on track to record one of the biggest swings against a government since World War II, the latest Herald/Nielsen poll shows.

Labor leads the primary vote by 48 per cent to 40 per cent, giving it a two-party-preferred lead of 57 per cent to 43 per cent.

This represents a 10 per cent swing to Labor since the 2004 election, which is more than twice the 4.8 per cent swing Labor needs tomorrow to win the minimum 16 seats required to form government.

If preferences were allocated by how they fell in 2004, Labor would be leading by 56 per cent to 44 per cent on a two-party basis.

http://www.smh.com.au/news/federal-election-2007-news/howard-needs-a-miracle/2007/11/22/1195321949364.html

[anakie]

15. although a second poll out today

shows Labor's lead at 52-48; numbers that should still see Labor scrape over the line but 48 is the number Howard's Liberals think they may just be able to hang on with. 24 hours to go.

"An AC Nielsen poll gives Labor a massive 14-point lead, after preferences, but a Galaxy poll has the ALP leading by just four points - the best result for the Coalition this year."

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/11/23/2098699.htm?site=elections/federal/2007


Peace

on edit

A third poll out tomorrow indicates Labor 54.5-45.5, a comfortable margin for Rudd and pretty much what the polls have been saying all year.

http://www.pollbludger.com/