Keating reacts on-cue

PAUL Keating has attacked former US Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan’s memory of recent history after he failed to recognise the former Labor prime minister’s role in modernising the Australian economy.

“But if his book is any guide, especially as it relates to Australia, those claims do not extend to him being a noteworthy economic historian,” the former treasurer said.

I have some sympathy for Keating in this matter but I won’t let it get in the way of a good laugh at his expense. Greenspan may have got Keating’s contributions wrong but anything else he says that denigrates Bush will be quoted as gospel.