Carpool’s Election Watch 2007

With the 2007 Australian election on it’s way and countless media items are sprouting Election Watch’s, it’s now time for Carpool to do the same. You may not know, but we here at Carpool are a real political bunch. Talking and debating about politics is one of our favourite past-times and we spend a great deal doing it. So it is my duty to present to you with Carpool’s Election Watch 2007, a look at the on-going battle between current prime minister John Howard of the Liberal party and the opposing Kevin Rudd of the Labour party.

 

Sturdiness; this is where Howard fails and it could greatly affect his chance at another term. Howard is a barrel of clumsiness, tripping over all sorts of things in between his daily activities. There is a whole archive of footage of Howard from the past four years of him being unable and inept to perform simple tasks like catch a cricket ball or walk without tripping over. He also, like George Bush, sometimes comes into trouble with speech impediments, which skew his speeches, thus creating unpopularity and difficulty with listeners. This little factor affects Howard’s charisma badly. On the other hand, Rudd is a clean walker, well-spoken even when put on the spot, which just shows how much more efficient Rudd can be if elected prime minister.

 

Australians were shocked on the 2nd November when a video was shown of Question Time from Parliament House that depicted Kevin Rudd picking his ear and then putting the very finger in his mouth.

It was only 26 seconds of footage, but this 26 seconds could have Rudd’s popularity with Australia’s citizens going down a great deal. This sort of unhygienic and rather juvenile behaviour from the opposing Prime Minister is not only disgusting to see, but stagnates faith many might have with Rudd as being a leader of our country.

 

John Howard is notorious among cynics for his racist behaviour towards immigrants and has even gone so far to distribute new laws into Australia that are prejudice towards immigrants of many races. Kevin Rudd, on the other hand, proves he is much more open-minded when it comes to different races and is much more popular with them. This is evident through his ability to speak Chinese (Mandarin, to be precise), which he did so during a press conference when welcoming the Chinese president to APEC. This gimmick boosted Rudd’s popularity with, I would presume, many immigrants and Chinese citizens of Australia. I would strongly suggest that Howard quickly learn how to speak a language so he can gain some of his own popularity with immigrants living in Australia.

 

Another step in a puddle for Mr. Howard come the Australian Election Debate 2007. In between dealing with matters like global warming and water reservations, Howard delivered something no-one would expect during his time to talk; a choke, which resulted in him needing a glass of water. Australians were shocked to witness Howard halt the debate for about a minute while he got a drink of water and cleared his throat. Such requirements from Howard on such a debate, whilst the rest of Australia had to wait for him. This is totally unacceptable from the <I>current</I> Prime Minister of Australia, let alone if he were just the opposition leader. It would be unwise to vote a leader in who has to pause every speech to get a drink, so let’s hope Howard cleans up his act fast.

 

Many would say that a Prime Minister’s past is rather irrelevant to their current status, but I would most strongly disagree. A person in the present is decided by the past, wouldn’t that be correct? Whilst Mr. Howard’s history seems relatively clean, Mr. Rudd’s on the other hand isn’t. reports came back in September of this year that Kevin Rudd once attended a strip club last decade. Although it may seem like a disposable factor in Rudd’s campaign, Carpool thinks otherwise. Surely we don’t won’t a pervert running our country, so why are we so shooshed on this particular subject? I do not even recall any apology or regret from Rudd. This is the clear opposite of what politicians or future-possible-Prime Ministers should be up to. This declaration from Rudd had me shocked and I’m sure faith went down in many Rudd-supporters and until he apologises to Australia, his supporters, the strip-club and the Australian government, he may not get that faith back which will inevitably and thoroughly damage his chances at this election.  

 

So we’ve gone through all the important topics of this debate, which shall be concluded early next year when a Prime Minster for Australia is announced, and it can only be one of these two. Having a look through our unbiased observations, you may be thinking “who’s Carpool rooting for then?” Well, the honest answer is neither Kevin Rudd, nor John Howard. But then again, we are rooting for both. Sure, as we have just seen both competitors have a lot of their act to clean up if they are going to be a suitable Prime Minister, but we at Carpool are sure that whoever is elected is going to do a damn fine job. Carpool hopes that this informative guide has been a help to your opinions on who you will vote for who should be Australia’s next Prime Minister.

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