Interesting point made by Michael Gawenda in today’s Sydney Morning Herald -
http://www.smh.com.au/news/opinion/howard-has-tarred-himself/2007/02/14/1171405293594.html
that John Howard attacked only Obama Barack but not other Presidential candidates - like Senator John Edwards (and, if I may add, Senator Hilary Clinton) for opposing the Iraq War.
Why?
Of course, John Howard has a long history of targeting those who are not Anglo Saxon. Is he up to his tricks again now that the polls are going badly against him?
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RE: Howard's apparently deep seated racist tendencies
You might be interested in this.
(BTW, xie xie for doing that translation)
"It was a young Howard, suburban solicitor and ambitious Liberal Party apparatchik, who ran (Tom) Hughes's first successful political campaign for the seat of Parkes in 1963.
It was not what would be termed a "positive" campaign. Howard attacked Hughes's opponent, the Labor stalwart Les Haylen, as a classic red-ragger, producing pamphlets depicting him as "Left-Wing Les" and "the Minister for Peking". Hughes won, and Howard's own political ambitions soon took flight"
(BTW, that tom hughes is Malcolm Turnbull's father-in-law. Howard is going to pass on the keys to the liberal kingdom to Turnbull, australia's richest politician, an ex. merchant banker and corporate lawyer etc. Howard used his influence to get turnbull a seat, ran right over the top of the sitting liberal candidate. Liberals will eat their young, and old)
Mr Haylen had held that seat for about 20 years, and was a very interesting character, well worth researching.
Menzies forbidded (forbad?) Australian delegations going to China, he and the liberal party ( liberal in name only) were/are proponents of the "yellow peril" and "reds under the bed" school of scare-mongering xenophobia as you can see by John Howard's election slogan's from 1963. Howard hasn't changed, only got more deceptive.
Les Haylen, on the other hand, (the man whose mission it was for young john howard, to destroy for Menzies' party, using whatever means necessary, including coded-racist slurs, such as "Minister for Peking"), Les Haylen,
" led the first Parliamentary delegation to China after the Communist Party took over the country. The Menzies' Government refused to visit China so Leslie Haylen led the ALP. After his second visit to China in 1957, at the height of the Cold War, he wrote Chinese Journey: the Republic revisited, a glowing account comparing old China with what he saw after the Communist Party had taken over".
It's a very interesting book if you can get it, and it is not one-sided and glowing. The most interesting thing for me is his description of an earlier china, especially Old Shanghai, he'd been there before. I wonder if it was translated into chinese?
Mr. Rudd has a copy.
Sincerely, GoodToBeWithYou
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