Posted on 01/01/2015 3:07:21 PM PST by naturalman1975
JOHN Howard has criticised Barack Obama for “wading into domestic political differences on climate change” during his recent visit to Australia for the G20 leaders’ summit.
The former prime minister said the US President’s speech to the University of Queensland in Brisbane “could have been phrased differently”.
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Mr Obama’s passionate speech to a young audience during the G20 summit embarrassed the Prime Minister, caused outrage among members of the Queensland government and drew public criticism from Foreign Minister Julie Bishop.
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Queensland Premier Campbell Newman said he was not about to criticise Mr Obama as “our guest” but the President had relied on misinformation and he would tell US officials what was “actually going on with the reef”.
Ms Bishop said she understood Queensland government concerns and “there was an issue” with Mr Obama’s speech.
In an interview with The Australian on international relations in 2014, Mr Howard contrasted the public statements of Mr Obama, British Prime Minister, David Cameron, who has similar views to Mr Obama, and other world leaders who were in Australia at the same time.
“I know you can have differences,” Mr Howard said. “Take David Cameron: his views are probably closer to President Obama’s than they are to some other Commonwealth prime ministers but he understood where he was. He was the epitome of style and grace. I felt President Obama’s speech could have been phrased differently.”
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Can’t you just feel the world healing?
Not feeling “the Love”..... just now..
Turn your backs to him, we are!
Next opportunity, incarcerate him.
What a foolish man Mr Howard is.He clearly doesn't realize that President Obola is the smartest man in *any* room he enters.How many other mortals does Mr Howard know of who wrote *two* autobiographies by the age of 40???
Obama definitely has a way of making friends and influencing people.
/S
Wow, I’m not the only one who thinks Obama in an arrogant prick.
I am noticing a theme here. Zero is insulting a lot of world leaders. He seems to have no sense of diplomacy at all. His dictator ways domestically are not working very well internationally.
‘subscribers only’?
Calling him an amateur for this indicates that you do not understand.
This was a deliberate ploy to indoctrinate and alienate the young against their (less liberal) leaders.
Correct.Our Community Organizer-In-Chief learned at the knee of two masters of the art....Saul Alinsky and Bill Ayers.
I can see the oceans lowering. I can see radical Muslims lovingly accept us because GWB is no longer President. I see Russia being our friend because Obama delivered a reset button.
Papers in many parts of the "British empire" (The UK,Australia and Canada,among others) do that.Here most papers don't.
And a (secret) promise of flexibility.
Obama thinks that anyone in any type of School will listen to and obey him
Don’t worry, Mr. Harper, Obama has a way of embarrassing anybody he’s around.
Mr. Howard expects a malignant narcissist sociopath to act differently?
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