There has been a lot of rumbling from with in the Gillard camp about media coverage of her partner, her appearance and her lack of children. Suck it up princess!
If you stand in front of a crowd of people or in front of TV cameras with the hope of maintaining the attention of those before you then you MUST have something of substance to say. You MUST treat them with respect, you MUST be clear and honest, and you MUST NOT treat them like fools. Don’t stand in front of me, hoping to gain my trust while hiding your true thoughts, don’t hide behind comments like “cabinet in confidence” when you really mean “no comment” because the truth is too embarrassing. If you can’t hold a room’s attention long enough before their minds drift off and start noticing things like your nose, your earlobes or your lack of children, then you are doing a poor job. Worried about people speaking about your appearance and your partner? Then give them something to talk about, inspire them to have faith in you, capture their imagination, don’t bore us to death and then complain when you lose us, it is like a school teacher who has an ADHD kid who keeps mucking up in class, is it the kids fault for not being engaged and challenged or the teachers?
The media is tired of the circles you are speaking in, they are tired of the drivel you force them to sit through. How about you stop treating those forced to report on you like fools, stop trying to pull the wool over everyone’s eyes, start being honest about what you truly believe and deliver rhetoric with substance, then possibly people would focus more on what you have to say... and not your ever reddening hair.
Is this going to be a gender election people? That would be a grave mistake I believe. Issues and policies are the important things here, and not who has the sexiest ankles or the prettiest hair colouring!
ReplyDeleteIt’s not very long ago that the American People voted in their First African American President – on a platform of ‘change’. I would guess that non white Americans were delirious when Barack Obama was sworn in as their 44th President, praying for, pleading for and dreaming of great changes that would be of immense benefit to themselves.
http://just-me-in-t.blogspot.com/2010/07/why-would-younger-women-vote-for-julia.html
All sides of Politics are doing their best to market themselves to one another’s constituency, which has resulted in a vacuum of any significant substance. All sides are afraid to run a platform that is visionary for fear of being shot down. All that is left is to run the election on issues such as gender.
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