[lbo-talk] The bottom line

[Grant Lee]

> >KERRY O'BRIEN [quoting Mark Latham]: Howard the arse-licker and the brown
nose kissing bums, as
> >you put it, Abbott hanging out of the Queen's backside, the conga line of
> >suckholes.
>
> Damn, I wish American public life were more like this.
>
> Doug

Even setting aside his Third Way-ism [Book Review: Civilising Global Capital
by Mark Latham, Allen and Unwin, Sydney 1998
http://www.wsws.org/polemics/1998/jun1998/lath-j27.shtml ], Latham does have
real "dark sides", if you like. For example, his breaking the arm of a
Sydney cab driver, in a confrontation a few years ago. A newspaper has
tracked the guy down and he says he'll still vote Labor. Someone who says
she won't be voting for Latham is his first wife, who says he was
"narcissistic", "hard", "demanding" and disapproved of her reading feminist
literature.

Grant.