Hello all,
           I saw Kerry O'Brien last night. He had a panel of ordinary
Australians, and asked their opinion of the way the Oz president
should be elected, before and after they were shown a debate on the
subject between a fanatic with a speech impediment and Malcolm
Turnbull who is as smooth as Sambo's shit.

  I depsair of ordinary Australians and their ability to make a sane
decision about anything! At first, all seven wanted to elect the
president directly. The stuttering fanatic raved on about bills of
rights, executive powers and god knows what, with Turnbull with his
shit-eating grin (looking like a short version of Gough Whitlam come
back) explained it fairly sensibly - that a president appointed by 
2/3 of the Parliament would be mostly nonpolitical but one elected 
by the people directly would be either Labor or Liberal. This is 
self-evident to anyone wth a brain.

  He cleverly skimmed over the *real* issue: that Keating's president
would not have to power to sack, and would be *required* to take the
advice of his ministers, except in the extreme case that he suspected
his ministers were breaking the law, in which case he would be
*required* to approach the High Court for a ruling. Turnbull ignored 
the fact that the High Court would therefore be given the effective 
power to sack a government - a committee of unelected 70-year-old 
fuckwit lawyers living in CloudCuckooLand with the power of a monarch.

  Anyway... the dickhead ordinary Australians changed their opinion.
Six still thought they would prefer to elect the president but one was
now adamant that an oppointed one was better. Four were easy either
way, and one wanted to "vote and keep politics out of it," ignoring
the fact that this was impossible. Not one of them made a sensible 
decision based on the facts, and none of them realised that the High 
Court was to become the effective Monarch of Australia. Not one of 
them realised that the only function of a president is to appoint and 
sack governments, and that the proposed president would not have that
power.

  They all liked the idea of Mary McGregor (or whatever) the President 
of Eire who is pretty and says noice things. Jesus! Ireland! They want 
to use fucking Ireland as a model for Australia!

  Democracy is a farce. How in bloody hell can we expect to govern a
country with representatives, when they are representing unintelligent
fuckwits incapable of holding two ideas at once? Australia is doomed!

Regards,
Bob
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