Peter and Mr Wolf

Costellos pitiful moment
Greg Sheriden - the Australian
Peter Costello was a shallow, lazy and opportunistic Treasurer who did not deserve to run the country. Costello's foolish gratuitous, undisciplined and slyly offensive comment's about Muslim's in his windy speech on citizenship last week may well signal a change in the way he intends to pursue the prime ministership.
Instead of differentiating himself from John Howard on the left, Costello now seemed to be trying to differentiate himself on the right.
In his speech Costello was doing exactly what extremists wanted him to do - allowing them to define Muslim identity by equating the most extreme form of Islamic radicalism with Muslim's generally.
No wonder he was warmly applauded by Pauline Hanson.
Costello claims he's a great treasurer because the economy is doing well.
An alternative view was that he's been a lucky treasurer and a lazy treasurer, a high-taxing, high-spending treasurer with a modest reform record. That he is prepared to play around so irresponsibly on race and religion to further his leadership ambitions represents his most pitiful moment in politics.