"Federal Coalition members are ... angry at the US President’s public intervention in the Australian climate change debate at the G20 last Saturday"
Thomas Lifson Barack Obama has managed to damage the formerly close relationship between the United States and Australia, a cornerstone of our presence in the Pacific. Unless you read American Thinker, you probably don’t know about the fuss created when President Obama stuck his nose in Australian domestic politics and insulted that ally during his closing remarks at the G20 Summit in Brisbane last week:
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"Much, much worse than the verbal spat, Australia is being pushed into the waiting hands of China, eager to buy more of Australia’s vast natural resources, including coal. You will remember that China can keep burning coal and emitting CO2 in greater quantities for a decade and a half more thanks the “deal” that Obama made, obligating America to cut its emissions now, while China is allowed to peak its emissions “around” 2030.
"Australia is now contemplating a major step, pulling it away from the U.S. and toward China:" ... Read more:
From the Melbourne Herald Sun:
Attention America: your windbag president is pushing Australia China’s way "Robb told Sky News’s Australian Agenda program yesterday he was “surprised” by Obama’s speech, he believed the President was “not informed” about Australia’s climate change policy, that his “content was wrong”, that Australia’s 2020 targets were “roughly comparable” to those of the US and other nations, that his speech gave “no sense” to government efforts to protect the Great Barrier Reef and that his remarks were “misinformed” and “unnecessary”.
"In short, Robb dumped all over Obama"…
From the comments section:
The message to the US should be:
“The US may tolerate its leader lying to them, but Australians take a very dim view of it.”
Thomas Lifson Barack Obama has managed to damage the formerly close relationship between the United States and Australia, a cornerstone of our presence in the Pacific. Unless you read American Thinker, you probably don’t know about the fuss created when President Obama stuck his nose in Australian domestic politics and insulted that ally during his closing remarks at the G20 Summit in Brisbane last week:
...
"Much, much worse than the verbal spat, Australia is being pushed into the waiting hands of China, eager to buy more of Australia’s vast natural resources, including coal. You will remember that China can keep burning coal and emitting CO2 in greater quantities for a decade and a half more thanks the “deal” that Obama made, obligating America to cut its emissions now, while China is allowed to peak its emissions “around” 2030.
"Australia is now contemplating a major step, pulling it away from the U.S. and toward China:" ... Read more:
From the Melbourne Herald Sun:
Attention America: your windbag president is pushing Australia China’s way "Robb told Sky News’s Australian Agenda program yesterday he was “surprised” by Obama’s speech, he believed the President was “not informed” about Australia’s climate change policy, that his “content was wrong”, that Australia’s 2020 targets were “roughly comparable” to those of the US and other nations, that his speech gave “no sense” to government efforts to protect the Great Barrier Reef and that his remarks were “misinformed” and “unnecessary”.
"In short, Robb dumped all over Obama"…
From the comments section:
The message to the US should be:
“The US may tolerate its leader lying to them, but Australians take a very dim view of it.”
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