Emotional Intelligence
Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd commiserating with those who have lost so much in the Australian wildfires:
UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown looking angry over bankers who dare to be pair bonuses:
Can you see what the difference is? Yep, Rudd is responding emotionally to events. Brown looks like he is stifling a fart.Don't get me wrong, I'm not that into the concept of a touchy-feely Prime Minister and I know that Rudd is far from flawless, but seriously, does Gordon Brown have to come across as quite so emotionally flawed? He seems incapable of showing any emotion other than unwarranted smugness at in appropriate times. Watching Gordon Brown communicate anything other than dull stats is a wince-inducing process; he comes across as the sort of person who you would pay money not to talk to. God help us if there is a national tragedy whilst Brown is still PM - we will have the awful sight of Gordon, wearing a business suit, stiffly shaking hands with distraught survivors in the rubble.
Pictures from the BBC.
posted by The Nameless Libertarian @ 1:10 pm
4 Comments
4 Comments:
Bushfire is almost an annual incidence in Australia. Each time Govt has reverted indicating that this may be deliberated by some arsen attackers?? I wander why Australian police and forestry services have not been able to catch these arsen attackers? I think Govt and regulators need to get their act together without excuse and ensure that this NEVER happens again in Australia. Harshul Vora
National tragedy? Where have you been for the past twelve years?
Australia does have my sympathy, bush fires killing about the same number as the Bali bomb while crocodiles get flooded into town streets in the north
http://www.woespana.es/feature/2009/02/04_b1.htm
Not much in the news is that Aussie farmers have for years been prevented from holding 'backfires' which produce firebrakes while allowing natural regeneration.
Their opponents being ignorant Greenies whose mantra " fire bad, growth good " has led to the recent disaster. sorry OZ friends , stop looking for " arsonists " rather look to yourselves or your own Righteous...
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