After more than a decade in power, the current Australian government stands to lose its long running title. In less than three weeks, the Australian people will head to the polls to vote for its new leader. The ad campaigns are in full force, so much that you cannot even glance at anything, anwhere, without your eyeballs hitting one advertisment or another. We even have whole newspaper sections dedicated to the upcoming elections. While this onslaught and bombardment of repetitive ad cycle continues, there really is no point in buying a newspaper.
What are our options? Well, standing in one corner we have good ol’ Johnny Howard. He is the current PM. He’s been in power for so long that people are starting nasty rumours that he’s getting too old for the top position. According to some, he’s ‘too old and sneaky’. Hmm. Old and sneaky? Of all the nasty names they could come up with, that’s the best they’ve got? Luckily for Johnny, he hasn’t had too much bad press coverage about him. I can’t say the same for the leader of the opposition. Ha.
Kevin Rudd is our running contestant for the top job. Now, I happen to like Mr Rudd. That’s not to say that my vote will go to him nor does it imply that it will go to Johnny Howard. But the problem I have with Mr Rudd is that he looks too much like a grandpa. That’s right, you heard me. He looks like a sweet grandpa who should be at home with his grandkids. Do you honestly believe that a guy who looks like that should be running the country?
Perhaps I’m being too harsh. After all, one must not judge a book by its covers, right? Well, Mr Rudd has many other covers to be judged by. Recently, old footages of him picking his ear waxing it and then eating it was released to the media. I kid you not, folks. Is this the man who will be our next leader? Perhaps we was hungry? Goodness me.
I favour neither candidates. Maybe I’ll just cast a dud vote. Yeah, that’s right. I’ll vote for the Greens!
