tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7529903.post116955293330096939..comments2024-03-07T11:39:09.758+11:00Comments on Will Type For Food: Reverse Parturition as it Pertains to the Political ProcessTimThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10333303180015967125noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7529903.post-1169628444742726482007-01-24T19:47:00.000+11:002007-01-24T19:47:00.000+11:00I'd suggest that while Kevin Rudd was the "man who...I'd suggest that while Kevin Rudd was the "man who would be," the shark bite man was almost the "man who wouldn't be".Don Quixotehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15291358604872256004noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7529903.post-1169621895726475072007-01-24T17:58:00.000+11:002007-01-24T17:58:00.000+11:00Hello Will (and that clever Goodta fellow),Look, c...Hello Will (and that clever Goodta fellow),<BR/><BR/>Look, can I just say this:<BR/><BR/>I don't want to be John Howard.<BR/><BR/>I don't want to be an imitation of John Howard.<BR/><BR/>I want to be Prime Minister.<BR/><BR/>And I want to be Kevin Rudd, my own man.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7529903.post-1169595026564722462007-01-24T10:30:00.000+11:002007-01-24T10:30:00.000+11:00(Careful with those commas, Eugene: apols. to Pink...(Careful with those commas, Eugene: apols. to Pink Floyd)<BR/><BR/>Let me say, from the outset, that I am not, never have been, and would not, be Kevin Rudd, not for all the <I>Camellia sinensis </I> in Zhongguo. <BR/><BR/>However, there do seem to be quite a few folks who, apparently, actually would be Kevin Rudd. Go figure.<BR/><BR/>There's whoever setup <A HREF="http://kevinrudd.blogspot.com" REL="nofollow">KevinRudd.blogspot.com </A> but it's a bit short on naked self-promotion to be TheRealKevinRudd.<BR/><BR/>Even though <A HREF="http://myspace.com/kevinrudd" REL="nofollow">myspace.com/kevinrudd </A> specifically says "This isn't Kevin Rudd", rather that "It's a support site to show that Kevin Rudd has many supporters.", I'm thinking that's a pretty Ruddish sort of dissembling strategy. <BR/><BR/> <A HREF="http://www.myspace.com/theruddmeister " REL="nofollow">myspace.com/theruddmeister </A> deploys the requisite first-person subjective pronoun <I>vis a vis </I> his Ruddicity, but Alexander Downer being a registered friend of TheRealKevinRudd is unlikely because it would be an uncharacteristic lapse of taste on KR's part, and Dodo wouldn't accept him on his friend list anyway. So scratch this one.<BR/><BR/>For my money, the most likely candidate from The Men Who Would Be kevin Rudd is the purveyor of <A HREF="http://kevinruddsdiary.blogspot.com" REL="nofollow">kevinruddsdiary.blogspot.com </A>... he's playing a straight bat, just recycling his press clippings, putting on the brave little soldier face, yet we see giveaway hints of that famous glass jaw in <A HREF="http://kevinruddsdiary.blogspot.com/2007/01/couture-and-critisicm.html" REL="nofollow"> his reply </A> when someone had a go at him over his dress sense. And TheRealKevinRudd wouldn't be using his real name, he'd quite possibly use a moniker that got in a dig at the pisspot Canberra press gallery, such as D D O'Malley, a consultant in Canberra indeed.<BR/><BR/>Then again, all of the above notwithstanding , the original puzzle of the radio announcer's statement might be explained by an accidental personal nominalisation of a title, and a misplaced commas: s/he might have meant to say "...the battle between THE PRIME MINISTER and the man who would be, Kevin Rudd".<BR/><BR/>Sincerely, Good To Be With YouAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com