Weez said
“Peter Manbed”

Who? 🙂

Oh dear. Johnny certainly is losing it isn’t he? About 4 months ago, he probably thought he was heading for another easy win over poor old Beaz. I like the way Obama just brushed him off with a sharp, targeted reply – a polite but firm “shut the fuck up hypocrite”… Love it.

Expect more of that straight talk from Obama, Dave.

Yeah, I reckon that I’ll be voting green for sure in the next state election. Iemma’s incompetent leadership of what must be one of the most lacklustre and corrupt excuses of a Labor government – I’m all for a bit of pragmatism in centre left politics, but that mob is almost completely bereft of the values that Labor is supposed to and used to represent.

Anyway, getting back to Obama, the way he so elegantly made short thrift of Lil Johnny has turned me into a convert. OBAMA 2008!!!

Wow. Thats a major diplomatic no-no Howards just made there. yipes.

It sure was, Dux… but Howard is such a slimy creature that I expect there was some alternate purpose to this cockup deluxe, something just didn’t play in the meeeeeja the way Johnny expected… Was he trying to beat the terrorism drum with Rudd’s policies? Whatever the plan, this one blew up right under Johnny’s nose. And count on the Lying Rodent to use one of his favoured strategies to try to recover his footing… claim it’s all OK and that he did nothing wrong, it’s a meeeja beat-up, etc.

Ain’t working.

The Chicago Sun-Times, from Obama’s home state of Illinois, is one of the most read newspapers in the USA outside of the Washington Post and New York Times. The S-T grabbed hold of Little Johnny… and left him looking even littler. Nice going, Johnny.

An upcoming Australian government is going to have to work with the US, whether it’s run by Obama and the Dems or not. Johnny may have hitched his wagon to a star back in 2001, but that star is falling- fast.

I don’t care about the fact that Howard has attacked Obama. I wish he would do it more often.

Just so I can watch and hear the delicious, delicious, DELICIOUS backlash afterwards!

I’m loving this.

At the same time, I find it somewhat hypocritical that Americans are telling Australia to “butt out” of their affairs, when for the last 7-10 years, America has been telling Australia what to do. Er…er…um…? Is this the part where the pot calls the kettle black? Or is it the kettle calling the pot black?

C, I think it’s a complete set of cast iron cookware. 😉

In that case, Weez, let’s hope they all get rusty and voters, like consumers, throw ’em out for a new set of cookware!

I wish every Australian could vote in US elections. As much as Lil Johnny can’t get enough of the taste of GW Shrub’s poopchute, you’d think we Aussies all would be entitled to an absentee ballot for the federal elections at very least.

Bruce Shapiro provides commentary to Philip Adams’ Late Night Live program on Radio National, from an American’s point-of-view (why doesn’t Philip ask me what I think, eh?). Shapiro was astonished at how effective an Australian PM could be in setting the preferred Dem candidate.

Go listen to the LNL podcast for 13 Feb. Link available for only a week or so until Aunty puts it into an archive, likely to sell to us later on…

So many Americans are now opposed to the war in Iraq that any politicians or candidates still advocating ‘stay the course’ or ‘avoid defeat in Iraq’ are playing with their political lives. Many Repuglicans up for re-election last November very deliberately avoided being caught in frame with Shrubya.

HoWARd couldn’t have gauged the mood of the American or Australian peoples any more wrongly.