WSJ Backs Howard Campaign (Australia)

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http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,10864721%255E36596,00.html


WSJ backs Howard's campaign
September 24, 2004

THE Wall Street Journal has all but endorsed Prime Minister John Howard's re-election on October 9.

The American business newspaper said Opposition Leader Mark Latham believed America was a "juicy target" over its involvement in the Iraq war.

"The Howard government certainly deserves praise for consistently countering Mr Latham's Yank baiting," the said an editorial in the newspaper this week.

It said that while Mr Latham appeared to be following the lead of Spain's Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, who won office after the Madrid bombing by pledging to withdraw troops from Iraq, he had started to hedge his bets by putting Kim Beazley in the defence portfolio and promising to keep embassy guards in place


I think Australians will get a laugh out of this paragraph


"Australians may also have a sense that Mr Latham, with his redistributionist promises, is proposing to lead Australia down the welfare path that has brought countries like Germany so much grief.



Didn't know magic mushrooms grew in the WSJ foyer did you...

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1. Hahahahahaha....

welfare programs? As soon as Howard talked about cutting back on Medicare the public nearly lynched him. He's been throwing cash at people ever since - even introduced a one-off payment of $3000 for every baby born. On top of that, he's given 2x$600 payments per child to each family ON TOP of their normal welfare payments in the last year alone.

The amount of votes Howard will get is inversely proportional to the number of American papers that endorse him. Gee, can we get Fox News to give him the thumbs-up?