Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard presented President Obama with an official Aussie Rules football. Then the two ladies tossed it around a bit.
Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard dropped by the White House the other day and presented President Obama with an official Aussie Rules football. Then the two ladies tossed it around so that official White House photographers could capture the moment for eternity.
The thought of the most effeminate President in history tossing around a football is comical, especially since he’s already proven that he can’t bowl and can’t throw a baseball.
We can only assume that he never had any balls during his childhood in Indonesia. Which appears to be the same assumption our enemies are making today.
Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard’s iPod gift to Obama was filled with an assortment of Aussie music, including some anti-American songs from Midnight Oil.
Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard visited the White House on Wednesday and gave President Obama an iPod. Imagine the joy on the manchild’s face when he saw the iPod, assumed he was being re-gifted the same iPod he gave Queen Elizabeth and got excited about the thought of being able to listen to his own speeches again.
No such luck. Gillard’s iPod was filled with an assortment of Aussie music, including some anti-American songs from Midnight Oil.
The Sydney Morning Herald explains:
As the lead singer with politically edged Aussie rock band Midnight Oil, Peter Garrett railed against “US forces”.
Now the Oils – whose singer is a minister in the federal Labor government – feature on US President Barack Obama’s iPod.
The music player, chock-full of Australian pop and rock music, was a gift to the American leader from Julia Gillard on her first visit to Washington as Prime Minister.
While US forces doesn’t feature on the iPod, the Oils songs include King of the Mountain, Blue Sky Mine, Beds are Burning and Short Memory – a lament of the superpower’s interference in nations such as El Salvador, Cambodia and Afghanistan.
Unfortunately, the most Aussie of all Aussie rock songs, Men At Work’s Land Down Under, was not included. So we’ll do what Julia Gillard didn’t do and offer it here.
Hell of a lot better than an Obama speech.
And, c’mon, Julia, what about the very first international hit by an Aussie artist, Rolf Harris’ Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport?
Wednesday, in what we can only hope is a preview of coming attractions here in the United States, Rudd was booted out of office by his own party.
Australia got rid of Rudd in 944 days. Unfortunately, it will take us at least 1461 days to boot Obama.
Tell us if this tale sounds familiar:
A charismatic leftist gets elected in an overwhelming rout that decimates his country’s conservative party. As soon as he takes office, he begins pounding money down a rat hole with one crazy spending scheme after another, proposes a complete overhaul of the country’s healthcare system, institutes immigration policies that allow unparalleled numbers of illegal aliens to flood the nation, and proposes a hugely unpopular “excess” profits tax. After a euphoric period of initial popularity, his poll numbers drop precipitously.
Despite what you may have thought, this is actually the sad story of Kevin Rudd, Australia’s leftist Obama-wannabe Prime Minister for the last 944 days.
Wednesday, in what we can only hope is a preview of coming attractions here in the United States, Rudd was booted out of office by his own party.
The Sydney Morning Herald has details that the Obama administration should pay attention to:
Julia Gillard has become Australia’s first woman prime minister after Kevin Rudd stood down from the position during a Labor Party leadership spill.
Ms Gillard has been elected unopposed to the position and Wayne Swan will become deputy prime minister.
The spill came after a newspaper report claiming Mr Rudd had instructed his chief of staff Alister Jordan to ring around the caucus to see whether MPs were still behind him.
944 days. Just about two-and-one-half years. It’s days like this we wish we had a parliamentary system in the United States.
NOTE TO OUR AUSTRALIAN READERS: We apologize for the misuse of the word “charismatic” in regard to Kevin Rudd. Consider it poetic license.
