Kevin Rudd vs Tony Abbott

Kevin Rudd the clear winner

Today at 12 pm, we had the first debate between Australia's Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and the Liberal Opposition leader, Tony Abbott. And I am happy to report that most of the analysts seem to concur with what I strongly believe - that Kevin Rudd was the winner in this debate. The debate topic was re. Health and Hospital policies for Australia.

I admit that I might be biased as I do support Kevin Rudd in most things and I certainly do not support Tony Abbott in most things. To me, Abbott is like some junior regurgitation of our last, and thankfully gone PM - John Howard. And I do admit that I only managed to catch the tail end of the debate. But later listening to the analysis of the debate and hearing the re screen portions of the debate, I gather I really did not miss much that was of relevance.

Tony was just overly aggressive and definitely negative with no real substance to offer as a viable solutions. In fact, if you took away all the negative things he had to say - he would have very little to say indeed. And even less to offer. Plus it was very annoying and immature to rudely and loudly butt in while Kevin was speaking. Kevin did not do the same to him but rather offered him the courtesy of uninterrupted speech.

And equally annoying and childish was Tony's loud and insincere laughter while Kevin was making a point. Tony so reminded me of aggressive bully behaviour in the school yard. And Tony was forever tying to catch Kevin's eye when he (Tony) was speaking - but not in a deep eye-to-eye contact kind of way. Rather his desperation to catch Kevin's eyes was more in the mode of an aggressor looking for a fight.

But apart from Tony unimpressive and honestly, quite repulsive performance, ... he really had NO SUBSTANCE. Nothing to offer the Australian public apart from "elect me. I can do better than him." Pathetic really.

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