History repeats….apparently his mother said something similar at his birth….oooh dear…is that a bit much???...oh well it happens….

Well ain’t that life,sometimes your the pigeon and sometimes your the statue.

I very much doubt that anyone would disagree “that shit happens”  but Abbott’s comment isn’t or rather shouldn’t be the story here. 

I would suggest that there are two stories here the first was why did it take an FOI request to get the film clip out of the Liberals in the first place and secondly the anger that was so palpable from Tony Abbott when asked about the comment. 

Firstly, clearly the Libs knew what had been said and didn’t want it out there because they knew how it might be perceived.  Second, why was Abbot so angry?  It was not as if he had not been, as some would have Australians believe,  been tricked, conned or bushwacked he knew in advance what was going to be asked his Press Secretary had been told by Mark Riley what the interview would be about and Abbot had been briefed before he went to the interview. 

Therefore to me at least it seems that Tony can dish out the punches whenever and wherever no holds barred and no quarter given but he gets very angry when a punch lands on squarely on his jaw.  Abbot’s anger was in the terms of Australian politics what can only be described as a Latham moment. 

So yes Tony you are right, “shit does happen” and it happened to you yesterday.  And what’s more you made it far worse than it needed to have been. Maybe you should remember that shit frequently stinks an and has a tendency to stick.  Abbot and his colleagues have no one to blame for this mess but Tony Abbot himself.

Tony Abbott may be a pathetic (but dangerous) ding-a-ling — as demonstrated by his silence before the Channel 7 interviewer when asked to enlarge — but there was nothing inappropriate about his response to the military man’s comment: shit does happen, and is especially likely to in a war that was dumped on a proud people by an incompetent US president dangerously out of his depth (probably deranged, too), aided an abetted by a British leader who, by the tone of his latest remarks on Egypt, still thinks he’s God (Catholic Christian of course), and an Uncle Sam toady who will go down in history as Australia’s worst leader in two millennia.

It is surprising that our valiant troops in Afghanistan are not in open rebellion for having to fight, as the aggressors, against “enemies” that have every right to defend their country and its sadly ingrained traditions. As Barack Obama (presumably forgetting he is an American) said of Egypt a few days ago, no country has the right to interfere in the affairs of another.

Abbott’s inability to cope with a situation he should have handled with ease is yet another reminder that our country is leaderless: we have in control (sort of) a Daisy Duck much more boring than Disney Donald’s girlfriend; a Mickey Mouse (displaying none of the skills of his Disney look-a-like) trying ineptly to knock Daisy off; nary a sign of anyone on either side even hinting at trying to put an end to our national leadership crisis; and not one parliamentarian in either major party that looks up to the job of getting our country back on to a sustainable trajectory. — Bob Hawkins

Too many have been precious about Abbott’s words.  I can’t stand the man but in context, what he said was fair enough.  Would the whingers have liked it better if he had shrugged and said: “War is like making an omelette - you have to break eggs.” It seemed to me to be a reflexive response and Channel 7 doesn’t come out of this smelling like roses down the Channel 9!

Yes, shit does happen Bob & John, but try using that context to Jesus Christ being nailed to the cross and see what sort of hornet’s nest that will ignite, or Hitler and the ... well you know the rest, no use starting bushfires.