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Bob Ellis quoting from an email from dramatist Nick Parsons:

"Tony Abbott is Australia's George Bush, a likeable dope who knows what he believes but doesn't know what he thinks, and will take Australia on a series of expensive and disastrous adventures. Like Bush he makes decisions based on a religiously-based conviction rather than logic. Like Bush he's charming and personable. Like Bush he's a fitness fanatic with little interest in financial matters or the economy. Like Bush he comes from a privileged background, with a private education, and has little understanding of the needs and ambitions of the common man. Like Bush he may just squeak through to claim the election. And like Bush, at the end of his term of office we'll look out at the rubble and ask ourselves what we were thinking. Likeable and personable people can still wreak great evil on the world."

The Drum unleashed, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's on-line blog.