holy fucking shit

[anthonybaxter]

fooishbar pointed me to this obscenity:

PRIME Minister John Howard has launched a broadside against US presidential hopeful Barack Obama, warning his victory could destroy Iraq and prospects for peace in the Middle East.
Mr Howard's stinging attack against the popular Democrat, who formally launched his bid for the Democratic candidacy overnight, also appears to commit Australian troops to staying in Iraq well into 2008.
Only days after saying Australia's alliance with the US was about more than his personal friendship with US President George W Bush, Mr Howard warned that an Obama victory would be a boost for the terrorists.

Holy fuck. I mean... just... wow. This is unbelievable, even for Howard. This is a man who aided an abetted a vile war. A war that has done more than any other thing to help boost Islamic fundamentalist terror. And he has the utter, shameless, disgusting gall to attempt to tell people that Obama Barack would make things worse??!? I'm sure that Bin Laden gets up every morning and thanks Allah that he is opposed by leaders of the calibre of Bush, Blair and Howard. They've done everything he could have hoped for, and nothing he would have feared.

Roll on the election. I'm not going to say Howard will lose - the man is a vile political cockroach, and he will do anything, sacrifice any principles, spend any amount of money to win. Watch his almost pathetic attempts to cast himself as someone deeply concerned by David Hicks and someone absolutely convinced of the need to address climate change. As Mungo MacCallum pointed out this week, he has nothing else in his life than politics and winning. If he wasn't such a foul disgrace and stain on our political life you could almost feel sorry for him. And Rudd doesn't fill me with extraordinary hope - except that I think he's probably the best chance we have to see the back of the loathsome Howard and his merry band of sorry hacks.
If you were a senior liberal party official, you'd have to be praying with all of your heart that Howard wins it. If he does lose, the Liberals are fucked for years to come. Howard's Führerprinzip approach to leading his party leaves them bereft and rudderless after he's gone. I have no idea why Costello, Turnbull and others (including, laughingly, Downer) think they could lead it after him. They'll be inheriting a party of no ideas, no principles and no guiding vision. I mean, what do the Liberals stand for? Corporate power, sure. Centralised power, sure. But what is that power to be used for?. Once upon a time the Liberal party actually had beliefs and stood for something. No more. Look at the sad wreckage of the state parties - Howard's need to control and rule has left them a shambles. There's no way the NSW ALP should win the election due shortly - but they're in with a damn good shot, because the Libs are so broken.