I know this is small bickies when compared to the earth shattering event of a mosque at ground zero, but the Krudd is back and in the US no less. He won't be far from ground zero, he will be at the UN

Kevin Rudd is 'our prime minister in exile' | News.com.au (http://www.news.com.au/features/federal-election/kevin-rudd-is-our-prime-minister-in-exile/story-e6frfllr-1225922016589)

It's bizzaire, why would a Prime Minister allow a second string minister and political rival to strut it big on the world stage? This is akin to BO giving Evita all the photo ops

Or Jimmy Carter and Bubba Clintoon going on international junkets . Carter in particular never gives up on the opportunity to make it a political event.

This is akin to BO giving Evita all the photo ops

Indeed the tensions between the two are beginning to brew above the surface. The President has already nixed a key appointment she really wanted .Evita wanted to hire long time Clintonista loyalist assassin Sydney Blumenthal (inventor of the phrase “vast right-wing conspiracy” ).

But Rhambo ,realizing that Sydney comes with guns to a gun fight (it was Blumenthal in the campaign who did the dirty work smearing of Obama ) advised the President to reject it.

I see this as an interesting play as the little red fox, who doesn't have credentials in foreign affairs, lets krudd out on leash. She is probably hoping he will turn his part time UN job into a full time appointment.

A very friedian slip when Krudd was making a little speech he forgot which job he does these days
http://http://www.theage.com.au/national/rudds-freudian-slip-20110927-1kvh0.html
It seems one knife in the back isn't enough but then when the polls are telling yours is the only seat in your home state that won't be wiped out perhaps he is exercising the power of one