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Watching Abbott and Gillard in what must be the worst, most boring and most negative Federal election campaign ever, has again highlighted the insulting and dismissive behaviour of politicians who treat us like brainless idiots. Maybe we get treated this way by them because, on the whole, we are brainless idiots.

Watching Abbott this morning he was asked a simple question similar to this. “If you lose the election do you want to remain as Leader of the Opposition”? He was asked the same question three or four times and not once did he answer it.

The answers he gave were along the lines of ‘I am working to win the election’, I will be the Member for my electorate seat of Misinformation (don’t know the Electorate name, but this seems appropriate)’, ‘I have a contribution to make to Australia’. Maybe he just doesn’t have the comprehension level to understand a grade 4 question. Maybe his memory is so bad that by the time he came to answer the question, he had forgotten what the question was. Maybe he is incapable of making statements without having been coached like a cockatoo to simply repeat the same phrases over and over again without understanding what the phrases mean.

Surely all he had to say was something like “I hope to win today and to lead Australia forward (or backward as the case may be) but should we not win the election, that decision is for my colleagues. I would like to remain as leader and use my time to help to improve Australia for all Australians”. Maybe he doesn’t say that because he doesn’t think about moving Australia forward like Julia wants to do. Maybe he thinks that if he loses he would want to be as destructive as possible to cause grief for the Labor Party and it’s leader, and Australians don’t matter.

Gillard is no better. Ask her a question and again, like cockatoo Tony, we have the shrieking response, “Work choices! Work choices! Work Choices!”

Put them both in a cocky cage outside a small rural petrol station and they may prove to be a tourism winner.

Probably the worst in all of this are the so-called political commentators, journalists and political experts.

They are so stupid that they accept an answer which has no relationship to the question. Presumably, in their minds. the question which they ask is irrelevant and inconsequential or they can’t think of anything better to ask. They don’t care about an answer they just need to ask any question so that they can fill up the allocated time slot so that they can complete their contract and get paid.

One thing is certain.

Both the politician and interviewers think we are so stupid that they can dish up the same rubbish day after day and we will soak it up like sponges and admire them for their incompetence. All politicians look for is the opportunity to say what they want and not to give us the answers to the questions we want answered.

Wouldn’t it be great if we had a few interviewers who just sat there as and said, thank you but you haven’t answered the question. I will just sit here and wait until you do. Either the politician would answer the question, say ‘I won’t answer that question’, get up and leave or sit in totally embarrassing silence.

Who to vote for?

Because she knows everything that is going on and because she always lets you know what she thinks, my vote this year goes to ———

my horse – Bindi.