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Labor Bitches

September 22, 2007 on 11:15 pm | In Uncategorized |

Well a week ago I sent out a slew of friend requests on MySpace. It took a while but by Wednesday I was friends with Bob Brown, and Malcolm Turnbull. And Joe Hockey. And Kevin07 of course. Thanks for the add guys!

Peter Garrett, for some inexplicable reason, declined the request. Way to get popular Peter! Maybe he didn’t like the fact that I had bands like Octopus Project and Explosions in the Sky as friends. I still like the Oils though Pete, honest! Or was it my age that turned him off? Anyway screw you, asshole.

But Maxine McKew hasn’t responded at all. Lucky I’m not a Bennelong voter or I’d be really pissed off.

Nor has Julia Gillard . She and Maxine don’t say yes and they don’t say no. Are they just stringing me along do you reckon?

If the pollies wanna play on MySpace they need to learn MySpace etiquette … and leaving friend requests hanging for a week sends a very clear message of . Which is not really the message you want to give to potential voters I wouldn’t have thought. If a Swedish band can take the time to thank me for my friend request and make a clever comment on my site, a bloody politician can surely organise for a junior staff member to respond to MySpace stuff at least every couple of days.

The other interesting point is that I’ve yet to receive a single bulletin from any of my political friends, except for one from Kevin07 telling me to check out the new ALP election slogan. It was pretty good I thought. But nothing from Joe, nothing from Malcolm, nothing from Bob Brown. WTF is the point of them having a MySpace if they don’t use it to communicate? If they imagine that all their friends will check out their sites every few days just to see if they’ve missed anything they’re in for a rude awakening.

Oh and no I haven’t asked John Howard or the Liberal Party to add me as a friend. I have some standards.