March 6, 2008
By the time I noticed this it had been up at the ABC site for an hour. By then it had accumulated almost a hundred comments, and comments were closed.
Howard slams Rudd on IR, Iraq
Well I guess somebody has to.
Just about anything that can be said about Howard, the speech, the venue, the practice among ex-prime ministers of providing running commentary on new ones, and anything else related, has already been said in the comments. Except that by dumping on Rudd on IR and Iraq he's also dumping on his own party. But it's pretty clear by now that Howard had lost interest in the Liberal Party long ago.
On the bright side, it will make a lot of opinion columnists very happy.
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I would say that this speech is the first of many on a very lucrative speaking future.
He would be in the top 5 Australian earners on the circuit very quickly. Perhaps even number 1.