I like Kevin Rudd - no I don't L.O.V.E Kevin Rudd, but I do like him. He is refreshing - doesn't take any crap from the unions and certainly doesn't like the Right very much either.

He's intelligent and I think sincere. Certainly he may have higher aspirations for a global platform - but so what? Who hasn't dreamed of greater things. Kevin though, has had the experience and the drive to try to make it happen. Good luck to him.

The stuff I don't like though include his religiosity (but at least he doesn't ram it down your throat like our friend Tony Abbot); his deferral of the Republic; his apparent unwillingness to redirect funds that are going to the privileged and give them to the underprivileged (e.g. schools). Despite that, he has done a lot of good.

Part of the good that he has done is save us from the Liberal hypocrites - for the time being anyway. What a miserable lot of wealth-focussed, elitist, lying, opportunists.

On religion however, as I've previously written, I don't believe that someone who believes in the concept of god is rational - or should I state that I acknowledge that they are selectively rational. They believe in a fairy story when it suits them and then trust only the evidence in another situation (also when it suits them). Not that I think that religious people are bad, because they're not, but that they are misguided.

All the good that is done in the name of a god can equally be done in the name of one's fellow Man.