Posted on 11/21/2014 2:29:40 PM PST by naturalman1975
BARACK Obama defied the advice of his embassy in Canberra to deliver a stinging attack on the Abbott government’s climate policies in Brisbane last weekend.
The US embassy, under the leadership of ambassador John Berry, advised the President, through his senior staff, not to couch his climate change comments in a way that would be seen as disobliging to the Abbott government, sources have revealed.
When The Weekend Australian put this information to the US embassy, a spokesman said: “As is the case with all presidential speeches, President Obama’s remarks at the University of Queensland in Brisbane were prepared by the White House.”
It is normal practice when the US President makes an overseas visit that the ambassador in the country he is visiting is consulted about the contents of major speeches. It is unusual, though not unprecedented, for an embassy’s advice to be ignored.
The Obama speech in Brisbane was added to the President’s program at the last minute. During his extensive talks with Tony Abbott in Beijing at APEC, Mr Obama did not make any mention of a desire to make a speech, or of any of the contentious climate change content of the speech.
Only in Naypyidaw, in Myanmar, immediately prior to the leaders travelling to Brisbane for the G20 summit, did the US party demand that the President make a speech and that it be to an audience of young people. At the speech, the President did not acknowledge the presence of Governor-General Peter Cosgrove.
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The P.O.S. insults the staunchest ally the U.S. has ever had.
They have cut his mic. Now that would have been sweet.
I don’t think it had anything to do with insulting the host nation. I doubt the Pres. would give any thought to anything/anyone outside of his sphere of concentration, which is himself. I believe this was motivated by a “look at me and what I just did in China” self-aggrandizement motive. All too common, I’d say.
>> the MC after his name refers to the Military Cross he earned as a junior officer in Vietnam.
That was evil in Obama’s eyes, as it was defying the march of Communism.
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