"He's not some whining, cringing, apologist - looking for the...

"He's not some whining, cringing, apologist - looking for the quick populist vote. He has the courage of his convictions - and speaks out accordingly"

Where have you been for the last ten years. Listening to Alan Jones no doubt.

His courage reaches as far as the next opinion poll or hot topic on talkback radio. His vision is conic with the large end covering his face and since Rudd arrived on the scene, he has looked chronically rattled.

The current prosperity is merely the result of the US printing billions of paper money, not any genius on the part of John & Cossie.

Whichever party is in power when the war on terror ends in a humiliating withdrawal from Iraq and probably Afghanistan, they will have to contend within a worldwide tightening of liquidity.