by Cellobella on Friday, November 14, 2008 · 6 comments
I don’t know how I feel about Kevin Rudd’s new website.
On the one hand – he can maybe engage generation Y on their terms not his – possibly it’s a smart “voter” aquisition project.
On the other it feels a bit try-hard. And… not very dignified for the Prime Minister.
It’s like when he goes on Rove. He’s all so cool and groovy and yet when asked the question he knows he is going to be asked (because Rove asks it of everyone) “who would you turn gay for?” he wimps out (twice now) and says his wife.
Kevin if you want to be considered cool you have to commit!
Otherwise you just look like that geeky kid trying to get in with the cool crowd.
And that’s NOT a good look for a prime minister.
What do you think?
by Cellobella on Wednesday, February 13, 2008
Driving to the airport today I asked the taxi driver to turn on the radio so I could hear Kevin Rudd apologise to the Stolen Generations.
I was completely moved to tears. It felt to me like a new dawn, a new beginning and I felt privileged to be alive and through listening, witness to this moment.
The other day a friend of mine was describing a speech given at the opening of the Festival – so this story is third hand. She said he told the story of a painting – I think done by the Carrolup artists - a painting of footsteps. He asked the significance of the painting which to his eye – didn’t look that exciting – and was told that the footprints were those of children taken away. The parents fenced off the footprints in the sand made by their children as that was the last tangible thing they had to hold on to.
I don’t know if that’s a true story – but it sounds true – heart breakingly true – and that’s why today is so important for us all.
by Cellobella on Sunday, November 18, 2007
Rove: Who would you turn gay for?
Kevin Rudd: There’s only one person for me and that’s my wife Therese.
Rove: Is she a man???
Nice comeback Rove to save the segment.Â
Kevin, you boring little twat.
