despite no real interest in australian politics i do love to watch q and a on the abc, and i enjoy the live aspect of it, particularly the way information is revealed. last night kevin rudd confessed he made a mistake backing away from an ets plus his ministers told him to drop it. then when he did the same ministers dropped him and went to an election with a promise there would be no carbon tax only later after they won to revive the tax and this is the political zielglizt we find ourselves in. kevin rudd looks good, he know his stuff, he has that rare integrity that these days is very hard to find, a genuine belief in changing the world. he was stabbed in the back by his own side. the labour party is a dinosaur. kevin rudd should now take control, he would win by public support.

other stuff i find interesting is not one journalist has made the point that despite going around it in a ridiculously amateurish way, gw bush may have been onto something, changing dictatorships in the middle east with force. it appears all his critics are now doing this. plus obama is now following bush's conviction to give the sept 11 bombers a military trail despite promising he wouldn't.

while i care not for these things i do find the hypocrisy of the media and most of the left wing ridiculous. the worst of these are the greens who really need to get a reality check. nothing wromng with idealistic vision but the greens are just socialists undercover of an enviromental movement.

this leaves labour under rudd, or liberals under abbott. both stand by their convictions. that's more admirable than the alternatives.