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| Subject: Funny: OZschwitz PM describes Labor predecessors as ''wacko'' Sun Oct 27, 2013 8:53 pm | |
| Tony Abbott's use of a Washington Post interview to brand his Labor predecessors as ''wacko'' and ''embarrassing'' could set back his working relationship with the Obama adminstration, a leading US commentator says.
Perhaps you can chalk it up to a rookie mistake. But it is a pretty big one.
Norman Ornstein, an author and political scientist with the right-leaning American Enterprise Institute, said he ''winced'' when he read the interview in which Mr Abbott put the boot into the Rudd-Gillard government in unusually strong language for a foreign interview.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/tony-abbotts-alp-criticism-could-affect-us-links-20131027-2w9lv.html#ixzz2iyQXElvm |
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