I feel as if I'm leader, says Costello

The Australian: I feel as if I'm leader, says Costello :

"In the past 48 hours, Mr Costello has made strategic television appearances and, while he has avoided setting deadlines or making demands for a leadership change, has fuelled the speculation and claimed a large slice of credit for governing Australia in the past nine years."

Well, Mr. Costello can say that all he wants and may well believe it but there is a large gap between feeling like the leader and actually being the leader. Sometimes one position suits you perfectly and another position is the ruin of you and we have had some excellent examples of that in politics in recent times. The danger is for people to aspire to something and then find out it is not the position where they shine. Howard and Costello have been a unity and it is that unity which has worked. Change the dynamics and you will change the outcome as so many politicians have discovered much to their chagrin. Mr. Howard has proved himself to be one of a kind. Handing leadership over does not make a leader. More often it has been the downfall of a person. Mr. Costello needs to live in the present and the future will take care of itself. Engineering things has been working but it is sending our world topsey turvey.