THE GOLDEN FRONT: Anthony Albanese, we are sorry, we were wrong about you, we were too harsh and unfair

It’s time to finally confess. In the two and a half years since he became Prime Minister, we have been wrong about Anthony Albanese.

We were unreasonable. Wicked. Certainly unfair. We were negative and naive. Pedantic and ruthless.

Too hard. Too heartless. And way too mean.

It’s hard to find anyone, including many Labor Party members, ministers and junior staff, who disagree: Albanese is an average guy doing an average job.

It has a crack. But it’s obvious, and every day since his election it’s become more obvious, that we’re asking way too much of one guy. Albanese is doing his best. But like so many others before him, he simply isn’t up to the task.

He is not alone. Prime ministers far smarter, more qualified and more capable than the Albanians have also failed to meet the expectations of national leaders.

As a nation we cannot, in good conscience, point the finger at Albanese. We only have ourselves to blame. We elected this guy without doing any character or skill checks. For most of us, his trump card was not Scott Morrison.

Even after a few years as leader of the Labor Party and a month-long election campaign, most of us had no idea who this guy was, and we didn’t care much. He wasn’t the other guy, and that’s all that mattered in the end.

If we looked closely, the warning signs were there. But who could be bothered?

Albanese is an ordinary Australian from a humble background.

He is a role model for every Australian child born and raised on the benefits of our generous welfare state.

The Albanians, poor and imperfect but brave and proud, have made the most of what our fortunate nation offers the less fortunate souls among us: a free home and education. He was supported by the state and given him every chance to succeed.

Never mind the irony that after escaping the education of the state-funded housing commission, at the height of his public career, he lives in not one but two houses paid for entirely by taxpayers; one with a beautiful view and a great swimming pool next to it, and the other with a tennis court.

Albanese traded his bus pass and student discount card for a limousine and a private jet.

Aside from the opportunity afforded to every child lucky enough to grow up in the post-Whitlam 1970s and 1980s, Albanese, single-handedly, transformed an ordinary childhood into something special. One of the few in our country’s history to rise from the playing field of politicians to lead the nation. Prime Minister of Australia.

Its flaws should have been obvious. Without disqualifying him from leading the country, they should have shouted at us and made us think. In hindsight, the pedantic and pedestrian leadership we see today was predictable.

Albanese has spent his entire life in a very small world. Literally and metaphorically. University. Student politics. Left Party Activism. Faction games, power games and small personality concerns. He carried these life lessons from his inner-city home to his inner-city university campus to his shabby little office, the NSW Labor Party headquarters on Sussex Street.

He chose his tribe, and in turn the tribe chose him, offering the young Albanian the ultimate golden ticket: a valuable and secure seat in the Federal Parliament. The pulse radius of his life, once just 5km from a spot on Parramatta Road, now stretched all the way to Canberra. His circle of friends, his influences, acquaintances and advisors, have always remained limited. His interests, too, are restricted.

Is it any wonder then that his premiership is defined by some wonderfully obvious characteristics: average, uninspiring, unimaginative and disappointing. It was literally written on his resume when he applied for the position.

And here we judge him for doing exactly what he said he would do. Shame on us.

The problem is, it turns out that prime ministers have to make big calls on serious bullshit.

But how is he supposed to be present in this whole shebang? Give him a break. There is the economy. And there’s housing and childcare and aged care and healthcare and roads and interest rates and Coles and Woolies and the lyrics to the Hawthorn theme song. Even the game itself is difficult to follow – it has nothing to do with rugby league. How should he behave given the Rabbitohs’ criminal record and the rules of the two codes? It’s a lot.

Albanese likes to keep things quite simple. Stick to the basics and you’ll be fine. Don’t talk about other things for too long and everyone will move on. Even PK and Karl.

As for the rest, let Penny and Katy take care of it. And let Jim do his thing. Let him count the numbers in the budget, not the numbers in the party room.

We have seen supporters of terrorism, in small numbers, take to our streets repeatedly over the past two decades, since 9/11 heralded the new era of jihadist Islamist terrorism against the West.

But we have never had a Government and a Prime Minister so unwilling to respond, a Government so comfortable in its own ignorance to prevaricate and allow an outrageous lie to infiltrate our community in such a way dangerous and misleading.

Penny Wong believes the unrest in the Middle East is caused by Israel and can be solved by Israel.

Our Foreign Minister, the Albanian’s closest advisor, believes it is acceptable to treat a decent nation subject to the existential assaults of murderers from the south and north as if it were a war criminal.

Hezbollah supporters freely marching through the streets of Sydney and Melbourne this weekend waving terror flags and promising to fulfill the wish of death and destruction of a retrograde jihadist militia is a sickening indictment of Australian politics.

How have we allowed terrorist sympathizers to emigrate to Australia?

It is as dark and dreadful a sight as one can imagine. Met with silence from Albanians just days after Wong’s abomination representing Australia at the United Nations, better known these days as nations united against Israel. Wong, as she has done countless times since the October 7 massacres, chastised the Jewish state for having the temerity and nerve to defend itself against the vile beasts of Hamas and Hezbollah.

When the American version of October 7 fell, on September 11, 2001, Australia entered the war. Now we went to the water.

Hamas sabotaged any chance of a Palestinian state, intending instead to repress its people and destroy Israel, and Hezbollah insidiously ravaged the once proud and peaceful nation of Lebanon for decades, transforming that country into Christian majority in a land taken hostage by Shiite jihadists. the puppets of Iran’s mad leaders are equally determined to destroy its Jewish neighbors and spread its psychotic Islamist ideology.

We have been at war in the West against Islamist jihadists since September 11. As conflict has settled back primarily into the Middle East, we have moved forward, confident in our arrogance, but not the enemy. The Albanian government is happy to let this war be fought now against Jews around the world, as it is today. Not just against Israel.

The stupidity of too many Western leaders, including our own, is that they think this is not our problem. If the shameful Adam Bandt leads the radical left in Australia, Penny Wong is the leader of the rest of the left. On this subject, her pride, her intellectual arrogance and her moral superiority are scandalous. Simply put, the left hates Israel and supports what it sees as the Palestinian resistance, a movement that has long served as a front for a murderous, anti-Western Islamist terrorist sect.

Wong is exposed in her own words. She is the minister of “Yes, but Israel”.

“It is true that Hezbollah is a terrorist organization, it is true that it does not respect the resolutions of the UN Security Council. BUT we see. . . Gaza. . . children killed. . . Israel. . . we must find a different path. . .”

“Clearly, Hezbollah is a terrorist organization and we understand the security situation Israel finds itself in. THAT SAID we have seen so much violence in the Middle East. . . cycle of violence, continued escalation, continued retaliation. . . that’s why Australia and others. . . called for a ceasefire. . . because we saw so many people, so many people die.

“I made it very clear. . . we understand the circumstances of October 7, it was horrible BUT from day one we have said that international humanitarian law is important, that civilian lives are important and that all lives are valuable. »

What she and Albanese have failed to do is explain and contextualize to Australians, who are rightly focused on other matters closer to home, exactly what we are dealing with when These are Hamas and Hezbollah.

In doing so, they and their insidious and decidedly dishonest radical left fellow travelers, the Greens, have promoted a distorted worldview, damaged our international reputation and inspired hatred and division at home by confusing so many fair-minded Australians on what is right and what is wrong.

Albanese may be an ordinary guy and an average prime minister, for which we can generally forgive him, but he will never be forgotten for appeasing terrorists and pursuing an extraordinarily dangerous foreign policy.