Rudd sends UN to sleep

Kevin Rudd, Australian Prime Minister and minister for bewildering neology, made his debut speech to the United Nations yesterday.

Here is a sample of why most of the UN's members will be hoping Rudd doesn't deliver an encore:

The global financial crisis of today presents us
afresh with a critical opportunity to act comprehensively and collectively for
the long term - rather than selectively and separately for the short.

I'm serious - he actually said that. (I don't know what being vertically challenged has to do with international finance, though!)

It gets better (I mean worse):

What we have seen in financial markets should
bring home to us all that the central organising principle of this 21st century
is interdependence.

For the century just past, interdependence may
have been one option among many.

For the century that is to come, there is no
longer an alternative.

Interdependence is not the expression of
sentimental idealism.

Instead it is a recognition of the new realism of
our current time.

snip

For what all these things tell us is this: that
interdependence is the new realism of this 21st century.

What this buffoon means is anyone's guess.

Kevin Rudd has once again embarrassed himself and Australia on the world stage by his highfalutin gobbledygook.

It is time someone in DFAT took away this jetsetting fool's diplomatic passport, once and for all!