Albo must have been reading the blog, i see he has turned up in Sydney channeling his inner Hawkie to scull a beer.
Fair effort, no question – particularly with the cameras on him. Classic that the beer itself is both named after Albo and a Corn Ale. Hard to gauge how this plays in the electorate but I’m willing to bet Scotty would drink Tooheys so nil all draw?
Kind of awkward that the bartender just walks off on him at the start. Less a bloke really enjoying himself with a crowd and more someone in desperate need of that first livener. I can’t go further without showing the master at work:
Funny thing about Bob in this one, its like he doesn’t quite hear what is being asked of him, then he sees the beer and the eyes just lock in. Almost as if he spots a beer and is compelled to just grab it. Great stuff.
My last post started with the idea that the federal Labor Party are in this perpetual loop of waiting to see if the Liberal Party would fuck things up enough to win power. I quickly decided that this was unfair framing and it wasn’t a party issue, more of a dominant personality thing tied to what people want in a leader. Scott over Bill, Malcolm over Bill, Tony over Kevin/Julia. Howard over Kim (twice!) Go back far enough and it was Hawke and Keating so nothing to do with party, just competing forces at a point in time.
I still can’t quite figure Albo out. This is a guy, conceived on a cruise ship, public housing, an actual Rugby League enthusiast, hard Left of the Left. And yet spent half his maiden speech to parliament banging on about an airport runway. I’m not kidding. Seems like it was a big deal at the time.
Cheap shots aside, it is wild to me that the leader of the Labor Party can be Republic supporting, euthanasia favoring, Mard-Gras attending, pro boat arrival, carbon pricing, renewable energy guy and the Libs seem barely motivated to run up their most lazy scare campaign. They just don’t seem scared by him. Granted we are still a few months away from an election and they have been very busy tripping over their own Dicks, but still. This guy simultaneously has Bob Brown AND Malcolm Turnbulls ideology but only manages to convey 100% Camry driving senior citizen / wet blanket. How is this man only 58? (Cheap shorts were not put aside).
I’m not up with the news, but I can think of four possibilities:
- Age has tempered the man and he is really as boring as he looks.
- There actually is a WILD MAN stuck in there
- Party strategy is small target. Be bland as you can be and hope they hate the other blokes (and I say blokfollow the twitter for post updateses) more. I get it.
- He is actually doing/saying a lot of cool shit and can’t get airtime.
If its the first, I’m sad. I would have loved an election between these two blokes:
Notes from a small Life 