No I meant visionary as in not kowtowing to foreign powers, tackling unsustainable industry, encouraging life long learning and exposing the collapse of the fourth estate into the vicious self serving parasites we have today. The Australian public decided they didn't want that, they wanted their politicians have to grossly unfair superannuation entitlements that far exceeded the entitlements of the average employee, they are happy for their sons to be bullet catchers in a war that they paid lip service to opposing. All of the issues that the public proclaim to be upset about now were on the agenda three years ago and they still voted for Howard.
Trucky is spot on. The Australian public doesn't want a leader with vision, they want a politician that gives them a bag of cash and a dozen hookers. They'll happily bitch amongst themselves about being lied to about interest rates, the Iraq war and children overboard and feign concern about WorkChoices and crumbling infrastructure like water, education, public transport and the health system, so long as they can pat their wallets fat with tax cuts and live in their hip inner city townhouse or four bedroom home on a quarter acre block in the suburbs. Which is why when Howard says that we've never had it so good, we should recognise that, shut up and let him get on with job that they elected him to do.
