Kevin Rudd Kicks Coalition Ass... Again!

In the Herald today it has been reported that Oppostion Leader Kevin "Kickass" Rudd, during his meeting with Hu Jintao, spoke Mandarin, impressing the Chinese President, who then invited Mr Rudd to Beijing for the Olympics.

As can be predicted, the Coalition, in particular Alexander Downer, have lashed out in Kryptonic green envy stating that Mr Rudd was simply showing off his language skills as opposed to achieving anything constructive.

Mr Dower advises that one of the necessities of working in the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (as both Mr Rudd and Mr Downer did) is to learn another language - his secondary language is French, which according to Mr Downer, while it has "proven handy from time to time", he has felt no need to "flaunt" his French.

Clearly, taking into consideration obvious jealousy from Mr Downer, Mr Rudd's Mandarin skills are far more relevant to Australia and our position in the Asia Pacific, combined with our relationships to our fellow Asian countries. The blunt correlation with Mr Rudd's Mandarin language skills to that of our relationships with Asia can not be overlooked by this small incident - it is obviously a huge benefit to Australia to have a Prime Minister who can speak one of the major non-English languages of the region.

This incident yet again lands another massive blow to the pre-election race, as the Labor party continues its fantastic and powerful momentum for what is slowly seeming to appear to be a possible landslide victory (okay, I will admit, it *IS* too early to really say that but one can still hope!). It seems that time and time again, the Rudd led Labor campaign keeps landing blow after blow on the crippling and aging Howard Government, and the Coalition has barely any firepower to hit back with.

Mr Rudd, or someone from Labor, I hope to god you read this, and know that I'm not the only one in the country running around the house screaming "Go Kevin! Kick his ass!"