🚀 go-pugleaf

Lets not summarize, lets drag it our. What a pity I missed this thread
while it was going.

Bill Hayden wrote in his Autobiography that Keating was the greatest
leader the country had had since the second world war. He was a man who
knew these things despite how apalling his book launch on 60 minutes was.

I saw Paul at Tchaikovsky a month ago. He was just another guy taking his
wide out for the night. The simplicity was obvious.

No other leader has left so simply and quietly and it is to his great
credit that he understood so well his public role. The word from the hill
was that he used up all his remaining political favours to get his staff
jobs elsewhere.

I wondered whether he was familiar with Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged but then
if you dont watch the the Simpsons (or read) that will mean little to most
of you.

The best thing of the whole matter was his appointment to the Uni of NSW.

This is my ambition as well. To be a professor or some paid academic
without any formal qualifications at all. I stand and raise my TCP/IP data
stream to him for this one. Truly a great man and one that didnt need
other people to tell him so.

I have no great animosity for Howard. We are back to the era of dry non
imaginative politics that has categorized Australian politics since
Federation but just for one brief moment before the tide rolled back I do
feel as though we had a leader who could inspire others who could also
lead.

Will always have fond memories. Or as was reported in the Adelaide
Advertiser when Don Dunstan left Office - An elderly man staggered out of
a North Adelaide pub and in a somber voice recited the Shakespearean lines
"Let us sit upon the ground and tell sad stories of the death of Kings".

Bruce Mcleod
Spirit Networks

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brucemc@spirit.com.au