RUDD'S BACK! KEVIN RUDD BEATS JULIA GILLARD FOR THE AUSTRALIAN PRIME MINISTERSHIP

KEVIN RUDD 

WINS  

THIS ROUND 

THE FORMER PRIME MINISTER 

OUSTS JULIA GILLARD -- 

WHO EARLIER OUSTED HIM -- 

AS LEADER OF THE LABOR PARTY 

AND PRIME MINISTER OF 

AUSTRALIA 

Read more here  

WE HAVE HEARD THIS SONG BEFORE: TARO ASO SINGS THE OLD PEOPLE HAVE GOT TO GET A MOVE ON BLUES

BLAME IT ON THE OLD II 

TARO ASO 

Current Finance Minister & Deputy Prime Minister 

and former Prime Minister of Japan 

Photographed at age sixty-eight (2008) when he was quoted as saying, 

"I see people aged 67 or 68 at class reunions who 

dodder around and are constantly going to the doctor."  

And "Why should I have to pay for people who just 

eat and drink and make no effort?" 

Aso did not last long as Prime Minister.  Now back in the government,  

at age seventy-two, he has let it be known that the rising proportion of 

 the elderly in the Japanese population is a problem that 

"won't be solved unless you let them hurry up and die." 

As I said, we have heard this song before:  see here. 

JOHN KEY, KIWI P.M., IS FIFTY

JOHN KEY 

b. August 9, 1961 

Aw Shucks, Fifty??  

Old for a banker, 

Young for a prime minister 

(essence of quote from the current 

PRIME MINISTER OF 

NEW ZEALAND, JOHN KEY) 

Used to be an investment banker; 

said to be worth fifty-five million dollars 

Some other career highlights here 

A KEY ANECDOTE: 

-- from dinner conversation at the 2010 APEC summit -- 

Key asked the leader seated next to him, 

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, 

how long it would take for a missile 

to reach New Zealand from Moscow. 

Medvedev is reported to have quipped, 

"Twenty-two minutes, but I'll ring you beforehand." 

More Key information here 

JOHN KEY, NEW ZEALAND P.M., b. August 9, 1961

JOHN KEY 

b. August 9, 1961 

 

Photograph © Gwendolyn Stewart 2011; 

All Rights Reserved 

PRIME MINISTER, NEW ZEALAND 

Leader, NATIONAL PARTY, which "has 58 seats and maintains its majority through support agreements with the five-member Maori Party, the five-member ACT New Zealand Party and the one-member United Future Party."