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| Oz PM is a "psycho chook" |
| 2009-06-01 |
| Barnaby Joyce reckons Kevin Rudd is a "psycho chook" with peculiar habits, while Mark Arbib admits the prime minister is no Mother Teresa. The two senators' remarks were typical of federal parliamentarians' responses to a new poll showing more voters than not think Mr Rudd can turn nasty if he doesn't get his own way. Nearly one in two voters believe Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull is arrogant and out of touch with ordinary Australians, according to a Galaxy Poll published in News Limited newspapers on Monday. That finding led one of his parliamentary secretaries to suggest Mr Turnbull, too, had never been a Mother Teresa. Senator Joyce, Nationals leader in the upper house, was unsurprised by the poll's findings. "The guy's a psycho chook," he said of Mr Rudd. "Who in their right mind gets onto a plane and because he doesn't get the right colour birdseed has a spack attack?" Senator Joyce was referring to an incident aboard a RAAF VIP plane in which Mr Rudd reduced a steward to tears. "This is a very peculiar man who is leading our country," he said, referring to claims the prime minister demanded a hair dryer while visiting troops in Afghanistan, and his inability to hang onto staff. Senator Arbib, one of Labor's parliamentary secretaries, says Australians understand that Mr Rudd is doing what's needed in the national interest. "Kevin Rudd has admitted he's not perfect, and no-one is," he told Sky News. "He's not Mother Teresa, there's no doubt about that." Coalition senator Mitch Fifield defended his leader's standing with voters, saying "to know Malcolm is to love him". "He's never presented himself as Mother Teresa," he said, adding Labor had presented that image of Mr Rudd before the 2007 federal election. "The people of Australia are starting to see the real Kevin Rudd." There were some "worrying trends" for Labor in the poll's findings. |
| Posted by:Classer |
| #3 Chook=chicken. |
| Posted by: Grunter 2009-06-01 23:05 |
| #2 "He's never presented himself as Mother Teresa" Thank goodness for that - he'd look decidedly odd in a nun's habit (not that there's anything wrong with that™). |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2009-06-01 22:20 |
| #1 "CHOOK" > He's from CHUUK/TRUK ISLAND??? WTH is a CHOOK, for those of us not familiar wid OZ slang? |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2009-06-01 20:17 |