Posted on 11/16/2014 5:46:41 PM PST by Dundee
BARACK Obama blindsided the Abbott government in Brisbane, pretty viciously. Through his remarks on climate change, he has damaged the government politically.
It’s a strange way to treat a friend but it is ...Obama’s presidential style, especially as the power ebbs from him in the dying days of his reign.
...damage may not be long-lasting because the US President’s remarks bore little relation to anything he can deliver or will do. Instead, they reprise the most ineffably capricious and inconsequential moments in the Obama presidency: grand gestures, soaring visions, which never actually get implemented in the real world.
Obama went out of his way to imply, in the most politically damaging fashion he could, that Australia’s efforts on climate change were negligible and compared poorly with America’s... As some American journalists observed, it is not a speech Obama would have given at home, where his authority is gone and nobody buys the moonshine any more.
...substantial passages of the Brisbane speech were designed by Obama or his speech writers to damage the government.
Given the Abbott government has given the US every support in the Middle East, done everything it can to sustain the US presence in Asia, and agreed with US objections, made by Obama himself, to the governance structures of China’s proposed infrastructure bank such that Canberra has decided for the moment not to join, its capricious and reckless treatment by Obama emphasises Washington’s tin ear with allies, a problem it has had for the whole of Obama’s second term.
...by using motifs which have figured in the domestic Australian debate, such as the fate of the Great Barrier Reef, Obama’s speechwriters determined to hurt the Abbott government.
It is a dangerous thing to be an enemy of Obama’s. Apparently, it can be fatal to be his friend.
(Excerpt) Read more at theaustralian.com.au ...
He has been critical of Obama's foreign policies for years but the sting of this column suggests that senior members of the government may have spoken to Sheridan expressing their 'displeasure' at Obama.
A small man gets even smaller.
We’re sorry Australia. 0bama needs his own island of mirrors to admire his lovliness. No such place has yet been found, but we’re looking.
Not one ounce of class.
Not one.
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Barry sees Western Europe and Australia as part of the evil empire. He sees African countries and Marxist strongholds as allies.
Indonesian Barry has an axe to grind.
There is no man to Obola. What a slimy punk she is.
Tony Abbott is white, yes?
Well there ya go then.
It’s fine we know he lacks any real class. He is the sort of elitsit would turn up at someone else’s home and start dissing their furniture - he did make the speech in front a University kids as they are the only ones who really buy his Global Warming crap and still see him as a celebrity President.
I am glad the remarks identify Obola and do not paint all Americans with the same stain.
None of America’s friends are 0’s friends. Australia, the majority of Americans don’t give a d@mn about “Climate Change” and care even less for Obama.
Our failed president is jealous of a real leader, such as Tony Abbott. What an ugly character we are stuck with for two more years!
True. Enemies of Obama are attacked, investigated, destroyed. Friends are thrown under the bus when no longer useful. Enemies of America, however, are in no danger.
That’s what you get when you invite a dog eating, on the down-low, Muslim liar to your house.
FUBO
Has he really damaged the Abbott government in any real way, or was it just sign of duchbaggery that gets quickly forgotten in the next news cycle?? I am curious, because the write of this article makes it seem that Abbotts days are limited by this ONE Obama speech!??
So the reward for being a loyal U.S. ally is to be called ‘’a chickensh** prime minister’’ by Obama in secret (Bibi Netanyahu) or to be treated like one by Obama in public (Tony Abbott).
A measure of just how sick he is, is the way he seems to idolize and have a need to carry grievances on behalf of his two known ‘fathers,’ Obama, Sr and Soetoro, both of whom abandoned him. That is really whacked out.
“Tony Abbott is white, yes?
Well there ya go then.”
Even worse in Obama’s eyes, Abbott is a conservative.
I think we can take it as given that Obama hates the US and has nothing but contempt for its people, so that in foreign affairs, he is not representing the best interests of the nation, but the opposite. Even if he ever does something positive, it is likely only because he feels that politically he needs to make a limited concession and no more.
Dear Australians,
I am sorry about our crappy sucky president. Please accept my apology on behalf of all Americans, at least the sane ones.
VPINTHEAK
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