Kevin Rudd (Australian Labor Party leader)
Am so angry that I can barely type straight (brief Australian political rant in LJ-cut, which I hope will work)
Rudd's 'counselling' (transl.: tearing strips off) his Shadow Foreign Affairs spokesman because he had declared the ALP's opposition to the death penalty sickens me. This from a man who, when he was elected ALP leader, repeatedly stated that his personal hero was Pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer, hanged by the Nazis in 1945. But there's a federal election looming, and there are votes to be gathered among those who still feel anger for the victims of the Bali bombings. Thank whomever for the Australian Greens.
Rudd's 'counselling' (transl.: tearing strips off) his Shadow Foreign Affairs spokesman because he had declared the ALP's opposition to the death penalty sickens me. This from a man who, when he was elected ALP leader, repeatedly stated that his personal hero was Pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer, hanged by the Nazis in 1945. But there's a federal election looming, and there are votes to be gathered among those who still feel anger for the victims of the Bali bombings. Thank whomever for the Australian Greens.